If Amaral was not a one man band who took it upon himself to defame legally innocent people ... why do you set so much store by what he says?
He was sacked from Madeleine's case by his superiors in the Policia Judiciaria so why you would think his opinion is of value ... his superiors most certainly did not.
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Gonçalo Amaral, coordinator of the Judicial Police of Portimão, was dismissed this afternoon, after criticizing investigators of the English police who collaborate in investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, confirmed the PUBLIC.
https://www.publico.pt/2007/10/02/sociedade/noticia/maddie-coordenador-da-pj-de-portimao-demitido-apos-criticas-a-policia-inglesa-1306369
from your portuguese link above.....took of case for criticising english police
IMO he was right to do so then and now.
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Gonçalo Amaral, coordinator of the Judicial Police of Portimão, was dismissed this afternoon, after criticizing investigators of the English police who collaborate in investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, confirmed the PUBLIC.
The order to end the commission was signed today by the National Directorate of the PJ, hours after the "Diário de Notícias" published statements by the official,
who accused British investigators of investigating "only" what was appropriate to the parents of the British child.MORE POPULAR