Perhaps they also applied for assistentes in the Pt process.
https://www.publico.pt/2013/10/24/sociedade/noticia/ministerio-publico-reabre-processo-do-desaparecimento-de-maddie-1610207
Thanks for that link, Byron.
I've not seen that information before in such detail.
You seem to have a knack for sourcing new materials relevant to working out the processes which took place in Portugal in the lead up to reopening Madeleine's case.
It makes it abundantly clear that the Porto team's evidence based review has led them to the investigation of abduction.
SnipInvestigation centered on the rapture thesis
The PÚBLICO knows that the members of PJ do Porto have already visited the Algarve several times to gather elements and carry out informal investigations that will support the need to reopen the case. The reopening of the inquiry is the only way for the PJ to formally inquire these witnesses.
The reanalysis of the case returns to focus the investigation on the kidnapping thesis, the main line followed by Scotland Yard, who also opened an investigation into the disappearance of Maddie. The PJ do Porto team was convinced of this thesis in view of the careful observation of all the information in the process.
PJ's source made it clear to PÚBLICO that the request to reopen the case is the result of the work of the Oporto team alone, not of elements collected by Scotland Yard, which also opened an investigation into the disappearance of Maddie . This work is also not to be confused with that of another team of six inspectors from the PJ de Faro delegation who have been carrying out the steps requested by the British authorities for more than a month in the context of a request for international cooperation. The national board of the PJ refuses to give details of the new evidence collected and to whom it will be responsible for the investigation, trying to protect the work of the inspectors.
https://www.publico.pt/2013/10/24/sociedade/noticia/ministerio-publico-reabre-processo-do-desaparecimento-de-maddie-1610207Like their British counterparts the Policia Judiciaria found plenty of fresh evidence to get their teeth into. What a great pity it wasn't followed to its conclusion at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.
SnipThe request of the PJ was the result of more than two years of reanalysis of the process carried out by a team from PJ do Porto, created in March 2011. A group of four inspectors led by research coordinator Helena Monteiro - who never contacted the inquiry, thus avoiding any contamination in the assessment - will have identified witnesses who were never questioned while the proceedings were in progress, until July 2008.
This is confirmed in a statement released Thursday by the PJ. "This work of reanalysis, which took place during the last two and a half years, allowed us to know new evidence that, by imposing the continuation of the investigation, fulfilled the requirements ... for the reopening of the investigation," reads the note.
https://www.publico.pt/2013/10/24/sociedade/noticia/ministerio-publico-reabre-processo-do-desaparecimento-de-maddie-1610207