Gilet & al. insult the portuguese and especially Mr. Amaral not recognizing that he gave up his career in order to tell what the parents would not tell. He was not dismissed, he requested his dismissal, in order to write the book. He was, at the time the best PJ detective in the country. Just weeks before his self dismissal he made the biggest apprehension of drugs in Europe. Half an year after the book he attended a charity event in the north of Portugal promoted by the royalty of Europe, whose minimum was €500, to gather funds for children in Africa (I suspect that's where his book's royalties went to). He was involved in a crime that never happened, by a murderess liar, as was proved this month in a Court of Faro - the Court considered all detectives innocent since there was no crime.
Going around saying that he is guilty is a lie. How could he be guilty of signing the records of the day that didn't contain an account of a torture if it never happened?!
What did the MacCann do for their daughter?
I have never made the claim that Goncalo Amaral was dismissed from the police. Anyone who suggests I have is simply posting false information.
I have however (relying on the information in his own book) which reveals that as soon as he got off the phone to that journalist he knew he had done an injustice to the British police and would face the consequences which turned out to be his dismissal from the case.
Your view of Amaral and his book is then interesting. You say he left the force to write his book, but it was in fact only a matter of a few days from his final day as a policeman to the book going on sale. His last day on the force was 30 June 2008 and the book was in the shops on 24 July, just 25 days later. Its clear then that he did not resign from the force to write his book as you state as such a schedule would be impossible. No, he resigned so that he could publish it and sell it. He wrote it while a serving police officer.
The fact that he wrote a book with (at least part of an aim to profit personally and make money) is very odd too in that you claim,
"I can't accept that a little child has disappeared and there are still people that are using it to make a living." That is in fact what Amaral was (and presumably still is) doing of course. Hypocrisy methinks?
You have a suspicion that he donated it all to children in Africa. Ah, well, if he ever turns up in court (and his lawyer manages to arrive with him) then we will soon discover the truth of that, won't we. Till then I won't go hunting round Africa for his fortune.
You go on to claim that the crime against Leonor Cipriano never happened. I think you need to look carefully at the court records and show us some evidence for that claim. I don't recall Portuguese papers making that their headline. The reality is that however you prefer to describe the fact, Amaral has been convicted of the crime of signing off that report about the alleged torture. It isn't a matter of even whether the torture happened. It was his personal action in trying to cover up the actions of his men that matters. He was convicted as a criminal, and sentenced as such. After a full appeal he remained convicted and sentenced. The courts of your country clearly don't go along with your claims, or more accurately you cannot, for whatever reason accept the Justice handed down to him.
Your question about the McCanns actions is an interesting response, clearly simply a lashing out in frustration.
To answer it I will simply point out that they have kept alive the hope that she may be alive, they have called continuously for the re-opening of the case (knowing that can happen and always could only happen after the archival on the discovery of relevant new evidence). They have challenged those who (like Amaral and Bennett) sought to gain either kudos or finance from peddling unproven theories about the death of their child which clearly damage the search for the child. They have kept the picture of Madeleine in our minds. They have maintained a loving and caring family home for Madeleine's sister and brother and for her in the hope that she may return one day. And now Kate is working not just for Madeleine as a missing child but for hundreds and thousands of others whose families suffer from their absence.
