Perhaps the family didnt want her picture splshed all over the papers! It wasnt the press saying its not her, they were quoting a named official source, quite a rarity as well, the federal prosecutors spokesperson....obviously the girls identity was checked out.....why on earth would they lie?
Maybe she was lucky that she didnt have to get her dna taken.....to prove who she was!!! But youre free to carry on thnking or wishing it really was Madeleine....list of quotes you dont believe here....
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Lieve-Pellens/1099200936
Oh BTW they were not walking up and down the street, just one direction, caught from three different cameras placed in different locations
All three places where credible sightings of Madeleine took place,
1) The Rif Mountains (Zinat) in Morocco,
2) seedy Molenbeek St Jean in Brussels and
3) Leh in the high Himalayas in Indai
A fair number of peeps at these places make their bread and
butter caviar from drug trafficking and processing hemp. A high percentage of peeps are involved in the "business" in some way, and will earn a decent crust. The others mainly live as paupers.
Where drugs trafficking is concerned there will be gangsters
Anyone been to Morocco and visited such outlying places? .... I have, but not drug running places as far as I am aware. Poverty abounds.
Anyone been up in the Himalayas of India and tasted the life up there? ..... My daughter has. Once again not drug running places, I believe. But poverty abounds there too
And Molenbeek is mainly inhabited by peeps from the Rif. You can bet poverty, along with the gangster type peeps, is there, but quite a few will earn a decent crust
Criminals abound in places like that. Peeps in such places learn very early on to keep their mouths shut, even to lie. One doesn't kill the Goose that lays the golden egg. One keeps to the "Company Rules" and does as one is told.
If bribery doesn't work and it almost certainly would in such poverty stricken places, then gangsters can use gangster methods to silence peeps.
They can persuade people to say what they demand
Just as tortured people can be forced to say things to avoid further torture....
......and in any case many/most of the officials will already be corrupt, or in fear ... so vulnerable, in such places
The Big Bosses are not going to have a ?billion /?trillion pound business ruined because one person wants to tell the truth.
Sorry but in such places one cannot guarentee the truth