Are you for real? A man has his life and his income destroyed, his assets frozen for years and you cannot see what his pursuers are liable for. I hope he sues their arses off for millions because they and only they are responsible. I also hope the police pursue criminal charges against all parties involved in the conspiracy against Goncalo.
Yes, I am for real (otherwise it would be fairly unlikely that I would be able to post from Mars).
And no, I can't see the legal grounds on which he could accuse them.
- Who "destroyed his life"?
The PJ should never have left him floundering in such an investigation, when it should have been totally obvious that he didn't have any experience other than a totally botched investigation into another child's disappearance with an arguido status over a torture case concerning the mother.
After the 10 days (during which the GNR searched for her and unfortunately didn't find her), he should have been packed off on some other super-important mission elsewhere. A paid sabbatical in the Azores to research whether a particular species of indigenous marine life was being used as a drug mule in a remote coastal village in the Azores, or something.
No one obliged him to write a book or take part in a documentary, nor to become a media celebrity for financial benefit by insisting on his theory that Madeleine died in that apartment that night and that her parents staged a coverup. The implication of that is not only is there no point in searching for the missing child, but he was accusing her parents of at least one crime, and an insinuation as to another one.
And I have yet to read a single credible explanation by anyone as to how his theory could be plausible in practice. Even his most avid fans don't seem to have found a logical one without resorting to conspiracy theories.
If anything, I could understand his gripe at the fact that he wasn't given a face-saving opportunity by the PJ to get out before the proverbial had hit the fan about him. And the jury's out for me as to whether he actually left of his own volition. (It wasn't until recently that I learned about Cristovão's sanctions in the other missing child case and the fact that he got booted - but this only became public recently, i.e, without checking dates again, around 10 years later).
He could have written a very different book, for which he would probably have got sympathy over the difficulties of such an investigation, while at least leaving the conclusion open as to what may have happened to Madeleine. But he didn't do that, did he?
- What do you mean about a conspiracy against Amaral? I'm not aware of one.
