What I don't understand is why people think it's not feasible?
It requires the retrieval of the body from wherever it was being stored before.
It requires the transport of the body to the church, whether on foot or by car.
It requires the transfer from a car into the church, if a car was used.
If the coffin was closed, it requires the opening of the coffin and the closing of the coffin.
I assume, but do not know, that the coffin would be open, to enable the body to be viewed. If so, concealing Madeleine's body in it was one of the riskiest parts of this operation. After all, who else had a key to the church to allow such a clandestine operation to be carried out?
Are people undergoing cremation permitted to be within a Catholic or Anglican church? I saw a programme last week about, amongst other things, the first crematorium in Britain. It arose because atheists did not agree with the Anglican church that bodies should always be buried.
As Luz is in a Catholic land, I would need to see evidence that those to be cremated are permitted in the church.
Since this clandestine operation would have had to have been done at night, I would need to understand why a coffin intended for cremation was permitted to remain there overnight. If it was because a funeral service had been conducted, then surely the coffin should have been removed after that? If it was because a funeral service was to be conducted the next day, how did the McCanns know the coffin was there?
Did the McCanns know the coffin was to be cremated? If so, how?
Does the cremation angle matter a jot? From the role play of the McCanns as villains, I mean. If they had stuck the body into a burial coffin (and a burial coffin seems much more likely in that church), would it make a difference to them if the operation was successful? By successful, I mean they got the body into the coffin undetected, and the coffin was buried without incident. Was someone going to dig that coffin up again, and check just in case? Or for another reason?
The cremation angle matters in Amaral's tale though. It is necessary from that angle that the coffin (or coffins) around that time cannot be identified and dug up. The coffin has to be cremated to stymie this act.
Now let's turn to this source. How and when did the source get this information. Directly, by observing the act? Permitting the act to continue I would be fairly sure is illegal. I cannot see how the parents of a missing child can place her corpse in someone else's coffin, with the intent of disposing of the body, and permitting the act to continue be legal. So an observer was duty bound to stop the act or, as a minimum, report the act to the police in a prompt manner, certainly before any burial or cremation.
Perhaps the source was told this by another person, after the cremation had occurred? One simply goes up the food chain to repeat exactly the same argument. This new person had to observe act, and fail to stop it or report it.
Let's refocus on the source. If credible, such a source has damning evidence against the McCanns. Enough to sink them in a criminal case. Get a witness to give testimony that the McCanns did this and the McCanns are toast.
Bear in mind that a witness in Portugal is obliged to answer all questions truthfully, therefore a wipe-out of the McCanns was guaranteed. No such wipe-out happened.
This idea is one of the myths surrounding Madeleine McCann. They are easy to create, and easy to tell. They gain credence from many, who retell them as the truth or even as a possible truth. Examine them carefully and they just don't stand up to scrutiny.
The idea is nonsense. Madeleine did not go into someone else's coffin and get cremated. The McCanns did not put her body in someone else's coffin in a clandestine operation in the middle of the night.
