Perhaps the resident HOLMES experts could debunk each of these outrageous claims from Jouranl De noticias with their evidence and reasoning:
1)Scotland Yard possesses software designed to reconstruct, in a virtual way, the facts that have been reported by the various witnesses who have intervened in the process of Maddie's disappearance.
2)The versions of those involved may be cross referenced, and after the data is processed by the software, one can understand what adds up – and what does not.
3)In this software, one can insert photos and the description of the apartment, including Maddie's bedroom, drawings or photos of the entries, routes to the restaurant – and a description thereof – where the parents and friends were dining, their table and the localization and position of each person.
4)The software will also receive the statements that everyone has made and will be making (the English will hear the McCann couple's friends again), as these people may recall facts, as small as they may be, and even add objects that may give their descriptions more veracity.
5) From there on, the investigators may reach more precise conclusions, which, very often, belies the testimonies that have been described in their statements.
In general, HOLMES would speed up the ability to do this, after the system has been very laboriously loaded up. Most armchair detectives have probably laboured over finding out where things are, and thinking, 'hmm, there was something on that somewhere, but can I remember where it was?'.
HOLMES cuts through that, based on the system as described.
As to things like inconsistencies in timings, I suspect HOLMES does not try to reach a conclusion, but merely flags up this type of stuff as something that a human may prioritise for investigation, or may not.
One issue that has been commented on is the nightmare of the rogatories. I'd love to know what they did to those. Did they go in raw and in their entirety? Or did someone clean them up somehow?
If you actually think through how the system must have been loaded up, the rogs are far from the only obstacle.
What I'm confident of is that there is no way HOLMES is going to crack this through artificial intelligence. Should the case be cracked it will be by human (police) intelligence, with HOLMES positioned as merely an assistant office administrator.
