Could all three children have been sedated by an intruder?

[Vertigo Swirl]

It wasn't the next day it was at the very least 2 days later Vertigo Swirl.

When did the FLOs arrive?

[slartibartfast]

Why not?  That’s exactly what the cite shows -what am I missing?

Gerry and Kate also questioned whether there was any suggestion that pointed to the use of drugs to facilitate Madeleine's abduction.

This isn’t the same as we think the children were drugged.

[Vertigo Swirl]

So, two days after Madeleine’s disappearance the McCanns raise the issue of the possibility that Madeleine was drugged with the FLOs and may or may not have expressed fears that the twins too had been drugged.  Why would they bring this up at all if they had been responsible in the first place, knowing that there would be a possibility that the twins would be tested too?  Surely on the ball police detectives would have had the twins tested to rule in or out the use of sedatives, the McCanns were not to know in advance if the police WERE on the ball enough to do so.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Gerry and Kate also questioned whether there was any suggestion that pointed to the use of drugs to facilitate Madeleine's abduction.

This isn’t the same as we think the children were drugged.

What’s the principle difference in your view?

[slartibartfast]

What’s the principle difference in your view?

What it says. They were asking if there was a suggestion of drugs being used not if drugs were use.

[faithlilly]

If the McCanns hadn’t made the police aware that the twins had been unusually unresponsive why would the police even consider that they’d been drugged ?

[Vertigo Swirl]

What it says. They were asking if there was a suggestion of drugs being used not if drugs were use.

That’s an incredibly nit-picky point particularly as it’s a second or third hand reporting of the words the McCanns actually DID use.  I can’t believe the McCanns spoke one single short sentence to the FLO about it with no further conversation or elaboration.

[Vertigo Swirl]

If the McCanns hadn’t made the police aware that the twins had been unusually unresponsive why would the police even consider that they’d been drugged ?

Because if the police considered the possibility that Madeleine had been drugged it should have crossed their minds that the other children may have been interfered with in a similar way.  Aren’t detectives supposed to think outside the box and look for clues like this, or do they have to wait to be spoonfed information?

[Vertigo Swirl]

Some people think the McCanns raised the issue of sedation because they knew that if Madeleine’s body were found it would be examined and a sedative discovered and this would point the finger at them.  This makes no sense because bringing up the issue in advance is not going to change anything and they could just as well have blamed it on an abductor after the body was found.

[faithlilly]

The McCanns when asking the FLO if there was anything used to facilitate Madeleine’s abduction could merely have been fishing for information.

[Vertigo Swirl]

The McCanns when asking the FLO if there was anything used to facilitate Madeleine’s abduction could merely have been fishing for information.

How on earth would the FLOs have known anything about it?  Fishing for what information anyway?

[Robittybob1]

Sorry, I’m following.  The McCanns raised the issue of the possibility that sedation may have played a part in Madeleine’s disappearance with the FLOs the next day and this is problematical because...?

It is problematic because it is not clear that anything was done about the request to the FLOs.  Did the request get passed onto the PJ and what did the PJ do to settle the question?

[Robittybob1]

Gerry and Kate also questioned whether there was any suggestion that pointed to the use of drugs to facilitate Madeleine's abduction.

This isn’t the same as we think the children were drugged.

It would not have been raised in isolation.  The whole discussion is not reported IMO.

[Robittybob1]

If the McCanns hadn’t made the police aware that the twins had been unusually unresponsive why would the police even consider that they’d been drugged ?

Because of what all the others said in their statements.

[Robittybob1]

The McCanns when asking the FLO if there was anything used to facilitate Madeleine’s abduction could merely have been fishing for information.

They could have been.  But what do you think?