Good Riddance Mr. Ellis

“About suffering they were never wrong / The Old Masters; how well, they understood / Its human position; how it takes place / While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along (...) That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course (...) In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may / Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry / But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone (...) and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen / Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky / had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.” Extracts from W.H.Auden’s poem “Musée des Beaux Arts” on Pieter Brueghel, the Elder’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (attributed to), at the Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels

I was planning translating without added comments or opinions two news articles published on the 24^th and 25^th in the Portuguese press regarding Alexander Ellis departure in December from the British Embassy in Lisbon to become the Director of Strategy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, when, whilst researching the British Embassy site I found an opinion article published by Mr. Ellis which referenced the above Auden's poem “Musée des Beaux Arts”. A moving poem which can be interpreted in a multitude of ways, though in this case, in Ellis context can be interpreted quite simply and in a non scholar manner, as:  «Life goes on», in spite of the individual or collective Human suffering of others.  In that opinion article Mr. Ellis, writes about the tragedy that befell on Madeira island early on this year, on February 20, when flash floods and landslides took the life of 48 people (unofficial numbers) and made dozens of victims, and describes how the British diplomatic body, him and his consular staff, travelled to the island to help British nationals - something to be applauded, surely.

Indeed, in another opinion article written by Mr. Ellis on his weekly Expresso newspaper column, titled «Um Bife Mal Passado», mentioned here before, the demissionary Ambassador explains in a single paragraph the roles of the British diplomatic body, as follows:

“They provide assistance to “distressed British nationals” who have, for example, lost a passport, or have been hospitalized or, fortunately there are few cases, imprisoned. We also offer services for the resident community (which is now about 80,000 people mostly in the Algarve), for example, issues relative to birth and death records, legalization of translations, and several other consular certifications. We also make citizenship ceremonies for new British citizens, and organize processes to enable the union - civil partnership - between two people of the same sex - being that one of them [of the couple] has to be necessarily British and, for legal reasons, neither can have Portuguese nationality.”

Simple, to understand, right?

On this same issue, on the role of the British diplomatic service, I decided to see if it was usual in other British embassies to provide links, let's say, to former arguidos [official criminal suspects] private limited companies and to promote links to missing children sites, sites maintained by British parents about their missing children, like Mr. Ellis has on the front page of the British Embassy in Portugal site .

So, I had a look in to the British embassies in Greece and in Spain, countries where a British child and a British teenager disappeared - you've read about those two cases connected to the McCann case - and unsurprisingly I couldn't find any link providing support to those parents in a similar fashion to the one that is being provided to the McCann couple since 2007 by the successive British Ambassadors, Consuls and diplomatic staff in Portugal. Nor to other British former suspects of an archived and undecided missing child case, like the help that is being given to the “suspects”, albeit not arguidos (procedural/law concept), of involvement in whatever has happened to their three year old daughter - “suspects” according to what one can read and deduce from the investigation case files.

British diplomatic assistance, publicity and support is being given publicly to a couple that has by their actions committed what can be, and probably should, be qualified as a crime, based on the evidence contained in the case files, namely the witnesses statements - but not to never accused formally (or not) parents, parents who probably have to pay from their own pockets and hard work the sites that keep the memory of their children alive.

Again, what the McCann couple did, is considered as a crime in the scope of the Portuguese law - Exposição ou Abandono, Artigo 138.º do CPP - and also under the light of most civilized countries laws regarding the repeated abandonment, as stated by the couple themselves officially and in the media, of their three children with less than four years old in an unlocked/locked(?) apartment, impossible to supervise from the Tapas restaurant - this constitutes, for any sane person, a crime of abuse and neglect.

A couple that is, and has been for the past three and a half years, collecting millions for a Limited Private Company, of which they are CEO's, allegedly to search for their daughter. A couple that during the first 48 hours did not search for their three year old daughter. A Company that has being paying for a multitude of lawyers, from Carter Ruck in order to threat and menace with libel actions those who do not believe their version of events, to Pinochet's lawyer to fight an eventual extradition request at a time when that issue wasn't even a possibility.

A Company that has paid for dodgy detectives who were arrested for equally dodgy actions, like Metodo 3, the Barcelona Agency who announced to the world that they knew where Madeleine and their abductor was, to fraudulent MI5's, Kevin Richard Halligen, who is currently being sought by the FBI. A Company that is paying for dubious rent-a-cops who state that Madeleine is «alive and well» and is simultaneously imprisoned in a «hellish lair» in the Algarve and do not share that information with the Police authorities who hold the jurisdiction of «Maddie's Case», as was stated in court, early this year.

A Private Limited Company that has paid for an entourage of PR's to create a wall of spin and misinformation in the media to clear the McCann couple's image. A couple that has left a trail of parental irresponsibility/impunity and an unaccounted number of victims in that media quest. A couple, that after all, are the only ones responsible for protecting the moral and physical well being of their children, and have failed to do so.

A couple that until now, has failed to reopen the case of their missing daughter, Madeleine - yet, are already preparing to «market» the child's name in a book, in a manner similar to their revolting and tacky online shop.

A book which, according to one of the former arguido family member, defames the Portuguese police, and thus the rest of the Portuguese population who have supported the extraordinary costs, emotional and material, of the single most expensive investigation to a missing child ever done in Portugal - a police and people who have done everything in their power to find their daughter. The three year old child that the parents, the McCann couple, have chosen to leave alone, even though there was a babysitting service available at the tourist resort.

As to Mr. Ellis, the British demissionary Ambassador: Good Riddance!

Philomena McCann: “They think about what they can do to help themselves”

Philomena McCann talks to the media as she carries a picture of her missing niece Madeleine McCann as she visits Parliament on May 16, 2007 in London. | image via LIFE

Missing Madeleine book is ‘truthful and scathing’
Relative of little girl may find mccanns’ account of disappearance ‘too upsetting’ to read

By Mel Fairhurst
Published: 25/11/2010

An aunt of missing youngster Madeleine McCann has described a new book about her disappearance as “truthful and scathing”.

The girl’s parents, Gerry and Kate, have secured a multimillion-pound deal to write an account of their search for their daughter, who vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.

Money raised by sales of the book, entitled Madeleine, will be used to pay for their ongoing hunt for the child, who was aged four when she disappeared.

The couple, who are both 42 and have five-year-old twins Amelie and Sean, revealed recently that their search fund was dwindling.

Mr McCann’s older sister Philomena McCann, 46, who lives at Ullapool in Wester Ross and is head of social subjects at the local high school, said Kate had finished writing and the book was being edited.







Ms McCann said: “Kate is mainly doing it and I know she has written some very truthful and scathing things relating to the Portuguese police.

“When Madeleine went missing we thought it would be really important for Kate to keep a detailed journal and she felt it was important to keep an account of everything and some of it has been used for the book.

“I don’t know if I will be able to read it myself. I have been thinking about it but I think I may find it too upsetting.

“Kate and Gerry feel a real responsibility that they don’t want to continue asking the public to support them, and that support has allowed them to go on.

“They think about what they can do to help themselves and they came up with this idea.”

The book will be published on April 28, 2011 – to coincide with the fourth anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance from the Praia da Luz resort.

Ms McCann said the family, who live in Rothley in Leicestershire, were regular visitors to the Highlands and “loved” travelling north with their children.

She added: “They will be spending Christmas at home, but we will meet up with them at my mum’s after Christmas. Amelie and Sean are amazing, most of the time the family just get on with things as much as they can but sometimes they just can’t.”

On their website dedicated to Madeleine – www. findmadeleine.com – Mrs McCann says: “There are several different reasons as to why I finally came to the decision with my husband Gerry to write and publish a book. My reason for writing is simple; to give an account of the truth.

“Publishing this book has been a very difficult decision and is one that we have taken after much deliberation and with a very heavy heart.

“Every penny we raise through its sales will be spent on our search for Madeleine. Nothing is more important to us than finding our little girl.

“We are hopeful that this book may help the investigation to find Madeleine in other ways too. Our hope is that it may prompt those who have relevant information, knowingly or not, to come forward and share it with our team.”

in The press & journal

*Note to Philomena McCann spins, or to be correct, to her false media statements - The police cannot offer jail sentences for confessions, the mere presence of Dr. Carlos Pinto de Abreu, the McCann's couple defence lawyer during the inquests would prevent any kind of breach of the Law. Furthermore, the windows shutters in apartment 5A were not «jemmied» as alleged by Gerry's sister and other McCann family members.

On the "scathing" attacks made by the McCann family and PRs, regarding the CSI dogs (and on the Portuguese Police) - brought to Portugal on the advise of the British NPIA's Homicide Experts - the only traces of cadaver odour, human blood and human fluids, inconclusive but compatible to Madeleine's DNA, were found on the McCanns' car, on Kate McCann clothes, on Madeleine's plush toy, on other McCann family belongings and inside apartment 5A.

After three and a half years, there isn't a single evidence to state that Madeleine was abducted, in fact, all the investigation to Madeleine's disappearance made by several police forces in cooperation with the Portuguese Judiciary Police, point that:

1) The child, Madeleine McCann, died in the Ocean Club Apartment, in Praia da Luz, on the evening of the 3rd of May, 2007;
2) A simulation of an abduction took place;
3) Kate Marie Healy and Gerald Patrick McCann are suspected of being involved in the concealment of their daughter’s cadaver,
4) The death may have been the outcome of a tragic accident;
5) There are indications of neglect regarding the guardianship and security of the children.

A Voice for Madeleine

Maddie's olfactory memory was washed off from her favourite plush toy, cuddle cat - 
image based on a real photograph from the Process Files Volume VIII, page 2098

The McCann couple wants to review the case? Well, let's help them, not merely to review the case, but to reopen it!

Surely, the McCann couple's ultimate goal with their 31 000 plus, unverified, easily hacked and multiple signed petition is to have the case of Madeleine, their missing daughter, reopened?

Undoubtedly, the couple's latest interviews alleging that their private and costly rent-a-cops are «the only ones looking» for Madeleine - where they have also complained over the «depleted» fund, at least, in the UK media and «not so quite depleted» in the Portuguese media - have the ultimate goal of pressuring the authorities, specifically, the only Police that has jurisdiction and the permission to investigate criminal cases in the sovereign country of Portugal - the Portuguese Judiciary Police - to continue the search for their daughter?

Unquestionably, the fact that the McCann couple are writing a new book to fill the private limited company fund coffers, a book that is to be published in April 2011(?) of which they have already received an «advance» shows in their own peculiar 'McCann way, that the couple are truly willing to do something more active than the usual media spins - who knows, they might even be willing, this time, to answer the questions left unanswered back in 2007 or to finally do an official reconstruction as asked by the police, so the criminal investigation into their daughter's disappearance can be resumed.

So, let's help the McCann couple, let's help them by asking, as it is our right, for the Portuguese Public Ministry [the Attorney General] to reopen the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance - not for them. For their daughter!

How? Let us use the power that we have as citizens, our voices together in a real petition, united for a real purpose, with real and validated signatures, intended to do one thing alone: to reopen a missing child's case. A case that was archived due to the poor cooperation of some people, namely the child's parents and the child's parents' friends; and due to the political and economic interference and interests, of certain people from both the United Kingdom and Portugal.

Three and a half years ago, a couple left three young children with a combined aged of seven, alone in an apartment whilst they went out to have dinner with other seven adult friends in a restaurant about 100 meters away; from that restaurant none of the group of nine people, pictured above, could keep their children safe in sight, nor hear them, nor help them in case of an emergency; - a three year old child, soon to be four, mysteriously disappeared in consequence of those irresponsible, and criminally punishable actions.

Three and a half years later, the investigation case files are well known to many - to those who took the time to read them; and so are the diligences that a hasty archival prevented the Judiciary Police of concluding.

It is our right to demand the reopening as tax paying and as law abiding citizens, who share a common public interest - to stop the farce that has been affecting both our countries' relations, in spite of what an oblivious demissionary Ambassador has said and a non-demissionary one has written; a perverse mockery of Social and Justice systems, of shared common values and ethics, something that certain unscrupulous people would rather see dismissed under a big carpet; and also to prevent other children being abused by Team McCann PR spins and a equally abusing world wide voracious media - I recall the deceased Mari Luz Cortés and her family as the most damning example.

Above all, it is our right to demand the reopening of Madeleine's case, simply because it is inadmissible for a missing child case, independently of colour, religion or nationality, to be archived when the Police clearly believes that there are further steps to be taken!

It is time to speak for those who can't. It's time to speak up for Madeleine.

Take Action! Sign the petition: A Voice For Madeleine · Uma Voz Por Madeleine · Une voix pour Madeleine · Eine Stimme für Madeleine · Una Voz para Madeleine · Een Stem voor Madeleine·

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All information regarding Madeleine Beth McCann disappearance should be forwarded to the only official and criminal Police force that can investigate crimes in Portugal, not to rent-a-cops or dubious organizations, nor to Police forces that withhold vital information for more than 5 months. Please forward any information that can help re-open the archived investigation of Maddie's disappearance to the Portuguese Judiciary Police to:

Directoria Nacional da Polícia Judiciária
Rua Gomes Freire n.º 174 1069-007 Lisboa
T./P.: +351 21 864 10 00
Fax: +351 21 353 73 37
E-mail: biad.sipc@pj.pt

Departamento de Investigação Criminal de Portimão
Rua Pé da Cruz, nº2, 8500-640 Portimão
T./P.:+351 282 405 400
Fax: +351 282 412 763
E-Mail: dic.portimao@pj.pt

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A small rhetoric question to the McCann couple's lawyer, Dr. Isabel Duarte: since the arguments sent to the Supreme Court of Justice to oppose the Appellate Court ruling that overturned the book ban and gagging of a Portuguese citizen - a censorship ban that was filed by your clients, resembling other times of a more greyish quality - and those arguments are based partially, as far as one could read in last week's press release, on the allegation that Dr. Gonçalo Amaral's book was «made to make money» - here on this blog the editors were wondering if the McCann book is going to be freely distributed world wide, without having profits in mind? No? That's precisely what we thought.

The McCanns, The McCanns lawyer, The McCann book Trustee and a simple question

McCanns: Reopen the Case - Do the PJ Reconstruction, cooperate with 
the Portuguese authorities and STOP this charade, for your daughter!

by Paulo Sargento | 10.11.10

It is widely known that the McCann couple was in Lisbon today, in a meeting with their legal representative, the Hon. Madam Lawyer Isabel Duarte, and, as far as I am able to tell, with the Director of the public relations company “Lifting”.

The McCann couple has launched an online petition for a review of the process, allegedly, because they know that “there is important informations, to which they do not have access, that are in the possession of the British and Portuguese authorities” [read below].

Now, this question is vitiated by an immeasurable fallacy: how does one assure the importance of information to which one did not have access? As far as it is known, the information the authorities possess about the case is either in the process or in the possession of the Public Ministry, to whom several suggestions were given regarding investigational steps to matters that were not carried out.

On the other hand, the figure of the process review in our legal system has, necessarily, criteria, which are not met in the case in question.

Finally, I would like to leave a few words concerning the attitude of Hon. Madam Lawyer Isabel Duarte.

Indeed, the most excellent Madam Isabel Duarte has every right to present the appeals that she deems adequate, though of doubtful admissibility, and even, of appealing to the European Court of Human Rights. She has the right, I repeat!

However, she has the duty, even more due to the fact of her being a candidate to the Supreme Council of the Bar Association, to comply with a ruling from a superior court, as is the case of the Appellate Court.

The Illustrious barrister is not, therefore, above the Law. Actually, it would be better not to go beyond her role as a Lawyer, like when she attempted, at least three times that I have witnessed, to influence the contents of television programmes where the subject of discussion was the Maddie case, recalling the injunction and the consequences of its disrespect.

As to the appeal (which would only be allowed under uniformisation of jurisprudence), what is left is to remember that it does not have any suspensive effect on the Appellate Court’s decision.

Thus, unless something has happened to the books that she has been entrusted with, I do not see why she does not return them.

Público's “travelling” article for reference: it changed from here to here, with several comments deleted in between. [Surely, it must be a requirement, to delete the sardine vox populi comments in order to get Team McCann pre-packaged press releases and short interviews with the McStarlets... you know, the ever distraught parents.]

«Kate and Gerry McCann are circulating a petition which they intend to use to make the English and Portuguese governments review the Maddie case. So far they have managed 31 000 signatures and intend to reach 100 000. In the press conference they gave this afternoon in Lisbon, Kate and Gerry have ensured that they will not lower their arms and that there are important informations, to which they do not have access, that are in the possession of the British and Portuguese authorities.

The McCanns believe the gathering of the data held by the English and Portuguese authorities will allow the discovery of what has happened to Madeleine, their daughter, who disappeared three and a half years ago. With the petition, that is available online and in paper, Kate and Gerry expect to get both the English and Portuguese governments to cooperate, gathering and analysing all the informations.

“If we don't have the help of the authorities, we will have to continue the search ourselves”, said Kate. Holding hands with stern expressions, the McCanns highlighted, several times during the press conference, their intention of not giving up until they know what has happened to Maddie, who would be seven years old today. “It's like being in a race and not knowing when it will end”, said Gerry.

Despite the “small investigation team”, financed by Maddie's Fund, the McCanns say that they are “restricted”, in the sense that they do not have “access to all the information the authorities have”.

Regarding the Maddie Fund, the McCanns guarantee that it is not over, despite the decrease in contributions that has been recorded. According to Gerry, the maximum has been done to get financial support. “Every month we have meetings to discuss ways to ensure money”, he explained. “If it wasn't for the fund, no one would be looking for Madeleine right now”, said Kate.

Regarding the Appellate Court decision of annulling the ban on the sales of Gonçalo Amaral's book – “The Truth of the Lie” -, the McCanns haven't said much. According to Gerry, the book “leads to believe that Maddie is dead, when there is no evidence pointing in that direction”.

Isabel Duarte, the McCann's lawyer, said that “the appeal to the Supreme (Court of Justice) was delivered on the 5^th of November”. This is an exceptional situation, made possible, according to Isabel Duarte, thanks to raising a fundamental argument: “That this book was published and will continue to be published to make money and to deepen my clients pain, and to hinder the investigation relative to Madeleine McCann”.

In case the Appellate Court's decision is uphold, the solution will be to appeal to the international courts.

Gonçalo Amaral's book is not yet available on the market. “And it won't be”, stated Isabel Duarte.“I am the trustee of the book and whilst I am not forced to return it, I will not do it in any way, whatsoever. This while there isn't a final definitive decision.”»

Gonçalo Amaral accuses McCann lawyer of disobedience

by Margarida Davim

The Appellate Court lifted on October 19, the ban on the sale of the book written by Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie. However, Isabel Duarte, the McCann’s lawyer and trustee of the apprehended copies, has failed to return the ten thousand copies to the book publishers.

There are about ten thousand copies of Gonçalo Amaral’s book, The Truth of the Lie, which are being kept by Kate and Gerry McCann’s lawyer, even though the Appellate Court has annulled the decision to forbid its sale and distribution.

«It is very peculiar for a lawyer who is a candidate to the Superior Council of the Bar Association [Lawyer’s Order] to display this kind of behaviour, failing to obey the decision of a Court», commented to SOL the former Judiciary Police, indignant at not having yet received the books.

Amaral «does not wish to believe» in the hypothesis that the books were destructed, even though that was precisely the «McCann couple desire».

According to the daily newspaper Correio da Manhã, Isabel Duarte has delivered an appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice, at the end of last week, alleging that the Appellate Court decision «failed to take into account facts which, throughout the process, were never put in question».

The lawyer believes that «the Appellate Court did not consider the book was written to make money, to deepen the McCann couple’s pain and to hinder the investigation».

Gonçalo Amaral has a different opinion: «The non deliverance of the books can constitute a crime of civil disobedience».

The former coordinator of the investigation to Madeleine McCann’s disappearance states that the Appellate Court ruling has no recourse. «The appeal decision would only be admitted has an extraordinary recourse to the Supreme Court of Justice, that is, a recourse of jurisprudence uniformity* if a case law [jurisprudency] existed opposing the decision made by the Appellate Court». Even in that case, the recourse «would not have a suspending effect».

in SOL 10.11.10

A non-legalese attempt by a non-legalese citizen to explain a legal recourse *

Jurisprudence Uniformity [Latin iuris prudentia] is a legal recourse in Portuguese Law, 763º article & subsequent in Código de Processo Penal (CPP) - Portuguese Civil Code, used to appeal a Court ruling. As the name implies, there needs to be a case making law, or several, opposing a court ruling which will be used as the 'grounds' - hence the term jurisprudency - for an appeal against said court ruling.

What does this legal recourse mean in this specific case? - basically that the McCanns lawyer, Isabel Duarte, would have to find similar cases where books have been banned for similar reasons in Portugal and use those cases, as a legal evidence and basis to make the appeal to the Supreme Court - which as far as I know it is something that might be hard to find in the Portuguese law, unless one goes to the years previous to 1974, to those 48 years of Portuguese Dictatorship when books were banned and people were threatened into silence, by force.

However, as Dr. Amaral explains in the above article, even then, even if the Supreme Court accepts an appeal made using this extraordinary legal recourse, the facts that remain are:

a) the Lisbon Appellate Court Judges has ordered on October 19, that Dr. Isabel Duarte, the trustee of the previously banned books, to restitute back those copies to the legitimate owner, i.e. Guerra & Paz book publishers;

b) an appeal using the jurisprudency uniformity [Article 768º] has a merely non-staying effect;

c) even if the McCann's lawyer uses another legalese tactic [Articles 771º to 782º of the CPC] to appeal for an exceptional review of the Appellate Court of Lisbon ruling, which seems to be the case according to to her own statement above; and the appeal to the Supreme is accepted, the law states very clearly [Article 774º] that an application for a review has no suspensive effect.

Therefore, and in a very non-legalese manner: the books should have been returned upon the moment the McCann's lawyer was notified of the Appellate Court decision which overturned the book ban, and subsequently its sales. And 'ungagged' a Portuguese citizen.

McCanns appeal to the Supreme Court to forbid Gonçalo Amaral’s book

The McCann couple has appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice against the Appellate Court’s decision to overturn the ban on the sales of Gonçalo Amaral’s book “Maddie – The Truth of the Lie”, the lawyer that represents the parents of the child that went missing in the Algarve said today.

Isabel Duarte, lawyer to Gerry and Kate McCann, who were in Lisbon today, asserted that the appeal was delivered at the Supreme Court of Justice on the 5th of November, requesting the Appellate Court of Lisbon’s decision dated October 19 to be annulled.

In the appeal, the lawyer argues that the Appellate Court “did not take into consideration facts that have never been questioned throughout the process” and stressed that “those elements were not analysed” by the higher judges, in order to annul the Civil Court of Lisbon’s decision after the injunction that was requested by Madeleine’s parents.

“The Appeallate Court did not take into account that the book was made to make money, to deepen the McCann couple’s pain and to damage the investigation”, stressed Isabel Duarte, who has not yet returned Gonçalo Amaral’s book to the publishers Guerra & Paz, for the former inspector’s work to return to bookshops.

The lawyer, who is the trustee of the book copies as ordered by the Civil Court, said that “nothing will force her to return them until there is a final decision” from the Supreme Court of Justice.

In January, the Civil Court of Lisbon tried the injunction that had been requested by the McCanns (temporarily decreed on the 9th of September) and decided to uphold the prohibition to sell Gonçalo Amaral’s book and forbade the former Judiciary Police inspector from giving interviews, both in Portugal and abroad.

Afterwards, the Appellate Court decided in favour of Gonçalo Amaral, who in his book defends the thesis of Kate and Gerry McCann’s involvement in the disappearance of their daughter in May of 2007, in a tourist apartment in the Algarve.

Apart from this process, Kate and Gerry McCann filed a lawsuit against Gonçalo Amaral over defamation, in which they demand compensation of 1.2 million euros, and another one over violation of the judicial secrecy.

Madeleine McCann disappeared on the 3rd of May, 2007, in an apartment in a tourist resort in Praia da Luz, Lagos, where she was spending holidays with her parents and two siblings.

As coordinator of the Judiciary Police’s Criminal Investigation Department in Portimão, Gonçalo Amaral was a member of the investigating team that tried to find out what happened to the little English girl.

Kate and Gerry McCann, who have always maintained the position that Madeleine was abducted, were made arguidos in September 2007, but ended up being cleared in July 2008 due to a lack of evidence to sustain the hypothesis of the child’s accidental death that had been advanced by the investigation. Thus the Public Ministry filed the process, which may be reopened if new consistent data concerning the child’s disappearance arises.

in Jornal de Notícias 10.11.10

McCanns are in Lisbon (again)...

....to meet with the Portuguese authorities, with the Judiciary Police? To do a reconstruction? To reopen the process? A big round: No! The couple are meeting Lift Consulting's Executive Director Cláudia Nogueira, their PR team in Lisbon owned by Santiago da Cunha and their Portuguese lawyer Isabel Duarte. We can only guess what strategies will be drawn today, though with hindsight we can fairly say their plans will not include any real action to reopen their missing daughter's process and will likely include a few meetings with the “sardine munching” media. Oh, and perhaps one or two encounters with their rent-a-cops and rent-a-mercs...

Maddie parents are in meetings today in Lisbon
by José Manuel Oliveira

Gerry e Kate McCann, Maddie's parents, are travelling to Lisbon today, to have meetings with their work teams, namely their lawyer Isabel Duarte and their PR agency directed by Cláudia Nogueira. The McCanns presence in Lisbon comes a few days after the British couple launch of an online petition seeking to pressure the Portuguese and United Kingdom authorities to review the process of Maddie's disappearance, in order to gather new elements that may allow its reopening by the Public Ministry. In their coming to Lisbon, Gerry and Kate McCann will grab the opportunity to give interviews to the Portuguese media. At the end of the day, they are likely to return to the town of Rothley, in northern England, where they live. Madeleine disappeared on the night of May, 3 2007 in Praia da Luz, Lagos, whilst her parents dined with friends at a restaurant.

in Diário de Noticias 10.11.10

McCann appeal to the Supreme Court in order to annul Lisbon's Appellate Court Ruling over Gonçalo Amaral's book [had to rewrite the title, which is totally gibberish copied from Lusa news agency, original title: Madeleine: McCann recorrem para o Supremo da anulação de proibição da venda de livro de Gonçalo Amaral, verbatim translation follows]

Lisbon, 10 nov (Lusa) at 20:12 - The McCann couple has appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice over the Appellate Court decision annulment of the prohibition to sell Gonçalo Amaral's book: “Maddie, The Truth of the Lie", stated today the lawyer of the parents of the child who disappeared in the Algarve.

Isabel Duarte, Gerry and Kate McCann lawyer, guaranteed that the appeal has been delivered to the Supreme Court of Justice on November 5, requesting the annulment of the decision made by the Appellate Court in Lisbon on the 19 of October.

In the appeal, the lawyer argues that the Appellate Court “has not taken in consideration facts, which along the process [I presume the process is the one relative to the book & documentary banning, and the silencing of a Portuguese citizen amongst other targets of the McCann injunction] were never put in question" and she stressed that “those elements were not analysed” by the Appellate Judges to overturn the decision of the Civil Court of Lisbon following the injunction made by Madeleine's parents.

in Visão [Press Release by Lusa News Agency] 10.11.10

The McCann's Pastiche Appeal & the "Fluffy Worthless Words"

The McCann Press release published today in the majority of the UK media, subsequently recopied and republished in some of the foreign media, can be read in the following paragraphs:

«Kate and Gerry McCann today said they have had enough of “fluffy worthless words”, calling again for a full case review over their daughter Madeleine's disappearance. Exactly three-and-a-half years since Madeleine went missing, the couple said they want “action” and for “somebody to do something”. They launched a petition on Tuesday to lobby the UK and Portuguese governments for a joint or independent review of the case. “Essentially for the last three-and-a-half years the authorities have not been doing anything proactive to help Madeleine,” Mr McCann said..»

«Kate and Gerry McCann also accused Home Secretary Theresa May of offering “words, but no action” to help the search for their daughter. Mrs McCann said: “Reviews are done in all major investigations, at least in this country. The benefits of pulling together different bits of evidence can be enormous but, until that is done, we can't be sure what has been missed”. An independent report by Jim Gamble, of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, is thought to back the couple's demand for a review of all the evidence gathered by British and Portuguese police. The report was commissioned by Labour Home Secretary Alan Johnson but not completed until the summer, when Mrs May took office under the coalition Government. Yet the Home Office refuses to disclose its recommendations to the McCanns.»

«Mrs McCann said when they met Mr Johnson, who commissioned a “scoping exercise” by CEOP to see if a review would be helpful, they felt they were making progress, but now did not even know if the report had been read. “There has not been a formal case review and I think for such a serious case like this, and with the profile of it and international aspects, that should be carried out,” her husband said.»

«Madeleine was three when she went missing from her family's holiday flat in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3 2007 as her parents dined with friends nearby. Portuguese police launched a massive investigation with the support of British officers, but the inquiry was formally shelved in July 2008 without reaching any firm conclusions about her fate. Private detectives employed by the McCanns are still investigating the case and as well as the petition, the couple are appealing for continued financial support for the official Find Madeleine fund - as it stands the fund will run out in spring 2011.»

«Private detectives employed by the McCanns are still investigating the case. As well as the petition, the couple are appealing for continued financial support for the official Find Madeleine fund. As it stands, the fund will run out in the spring of next year. Mr McCann said fundraising was a secondary objective to urging people to put pressure on the governments “to do what they should have done all along”.(…) She continued: “In the interim, we are carrying on, we're interviewing witnesses, dealing with new information and continuing reviewing the information available to us”. The couple spoke of how their family was coping. Mrs McCann said: “Sean and Amelie are great, they are doing really well, they seem to have taken everything on board and coped really well”.»

«Explaining how much the search for their daughter costs Gerry said £1 pays for a multi-lingual call centre for an hour, £10 pays for 1,000 posters that are distributed across the world and £50 pays for the running costs of a Portuguese investigation team for two hours. He said: “Without our investigation team it would be almost impossible. "If the money does run out there would still be a helpline manned by volunteers, email. But it would be very, very difficult. It would essentially mean that any kind of pro-active search for Madeleine would cease.”»

«A Home Office spokesman said: “The Home Secretary has met Kate and Gerry McCann and is deeply sympathetic to their situation. “The Government wants to ensure that everything feasible is being done to progress the search for Madeleine. The British authorities will maintain a dialogue with the Portuguese and continue to liaise with Madeleine's family on any developments”.»

sources: excerpts from the UK media here, here, here, here, here and here

Summing up the above: Kate and Gerry McCann - who have been since May 15, 2007 gathering donations in a Private Limited Fund with the “alleged” goal of supporting the expenses of a multimillionaire media campaign in order to help the search for their daughter Madeleine ever since she was “allegedly abducted” on May 3, 2007, whilst the Tapas 9 were “allegedly” having dinner in their alleged “back garden” about 120 meters away, from an “alleged locked or unlocked” apartment as the McCann Couple and their Tapas friends have incongruently and allegedly stated [read the G9 statements] - are now begging the public to donate again so that they can keep their “alleged” search alive.

All of this, with total disregard of the conclusions of the process, of the Operation Task - the joint Portuguese and British authorities conclusions, which state, black on white, that Madeleine Beth McCann died in all probability on the night of May 3, 2007 and that her parents are suspects of concealing her cadaver and simulating an abduction; and despite the fact that the donations were, “allegedly”, used to pay for the best lawyers, the best media spinners, the likely worst rent-a-cops, and were abusively misused in the numerous attempts to silence a former coordinating inspector, a TV channel, a book editor, a film production company, the media and printed press, to menace bloggers and sites, and to hinder the real and only official investigation?!

What the media and the McCanns themselves totally fail to mention is that the couple had and still have more than one possibility to reopen the criminal investigation into the disappearance of their daughter, Madeleine Beth McCann, for free! That's right: for free, without the need for a Limited Private Fund; for public donations; for media spinners; for backers; without the need for rent-a-cops or dodgy PIs, who according to the Portuguese Law cannot make private investigations in Portugal during an ongoing investigation; and especially without the need of fake MI5's who are currently being sought by the FBI.

A totally free and law abiding criminal investigation into their daughter's disappearance! Well, perhaps not so free-free because it would be paid by us the Portuguese people, again; and make no mistakes it would be gladly paid by the very same people who were portrayed as “stupid sardine-munchers” in the UK media if only it would end this farcical media circus, once and for all.

What the latest McCann media stunt fails to mention is that the McCann couple as (former) arguidos, (as citizens, as parents or as assistants if they had gained that status or continued that appeal) of the criminal investigation process into their daughter's disappearance have somehow missed the statutory legal deadlines to oppose to the Portuguese Public Ministry process archival and to apply (formulate a petition for) for the reopening of the instruction (finding of facts) pertaining to the investigative proceedings, as it was their legal right; clearly stated in the archival dispatch:

«Nevertheless, anyone who feels unsatisfied about the epilogue of the investigations, will have the possibility to react against it, having the possibility of eventually changing that epilogue, by prompting diligences based on new evidence, as long as that person has the legitimacy to request them and the requested diligences are serious, pertinent and consequent. They may do so in three ways: by requesting the reopening of the inquiry, under article 279º, number 1 of the Penal Process Code; by appealing hierarchically against this dispatch under number 2 of article 278º, or in another case, under number 2 of article 279º of the Penal Process Code, or by requesting the opening of the instruction under article 287º, number 1, item b, of the Penal Process Code.

Finally, it should be noted that an archiving decision may be a fair decision, although of the possible justice, and, especially, to underline heavily that the archiving of the present files does not equal a definite and irreversible closing of the process. This process, as long as the prescription deadline for the possibly committed crimes does reach its term, and if new evidence that justifies it, appears, can always be reopened, officiously or through the request of an assistant, again ordinate to a final decision of accusation or non accusation.»

The former arguidos video interview with Darshna Soni [watch the report w/ the edited interview and a few interesting extras as well] via Channel 4 at Youtube
Part 1

Part 2

The many victims of the McCann Media Campaign

Our reply to the McCann couple: 12 Reasons to Reopen the Madeleine McCann Case

note: the petition mentioned on the above video appeal was mysteriously wooshed in February 1, 2010

more to follow...

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Exclusive Video: McCanns Press Conference
«The following video was recorded by a journalist, the only journalist who dared ask the McCann couple tough questions. You may have seen some of the footage broadcast on your own countries' TV channels, edited to suit the spin, and some even altered or omitted the fact that the McCanns only mentioned that they would like the archived process of Madeleine McCann to be re-opened or reviewed after the former PJ coordinator, Gonçalo Amaral, told the media a few hours earlier that he was evaluating the legal aspects to constitute himself as an assistant in the process in order to pressure its reopening, so the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance can continue.

The whole of the mainstream media also didn't make any reference to a press note distributed among the journalists during the court lunch break by 'Citizens in Defence of Rights and Freedoms - Project Justice Gonçalo Amaral' featuring an appeal to 'the English subjects, and especially to the English media, to pressure the police to open their archives' and that 'the world wants to know what really happened to Madeleine Beth McCann. Premature shelving is not an answer'.

In this video Gerry McCann says that he would be 'delighted' if the case is reopened. We eagerly wait for the McCann Couple to request the reopening of the case and for their participation in a reconstruction.»

Any Resemblance Is Pure Coincidence
«“From everything that has been exposed, it RESULTS from the Files THAT:

A) the minor Madeleine McCann died in apartment 5A at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, on the night of the 3rd of May 2007;

B) a simulation of an abduction took place;

C) in order to render the child’s death impossible before 22H00, a situation of checking of the McCann couple’s children while they slept was made up;

D) Kate McCann and Gerald McCann are involved in the concealment of the cadaver of their daughter, Madeleine McCann;

E) at this moment, there seem to be no strong indications that the child’s death was not the result of a tragic accident, yet;

F) from what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, doesn’t want to deliver the cadaver immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility that it was moved from the initial place of deposition. This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place. (Page 2601 of the process)»

The McCanns Strategy to re-open the Process - Allegedly
video only with added McCann rent-a-cop spin (in a UK media article)
«The Ulster detective leading the search for Madeleine McCann today reveals his most chilling theories yet, exclusively to Sunday Life. Hardened ex-RUC cop Dave Edgar told us he is convinced that little Maddie is imprisoned in a hellish lair – just like kidnapped sex slave Jaycee Lee Dugard.

He insisted the “back from the dead” reappearance of Jaycee – and the cases of Austrian cellar girls Elisabeth Fritzl and Natascha Kampusch – confirmed his suspicion.

And despite fresh leads taking his probe to Australia and Barcelona, the east Belfast man insists the golden-haired youngster is being held just 10 miles from where she was snatched in Praia da Luz two years ago.

But he warned that the sprawling wilderness where he believes Maddie is languishing is almost impossible to search completely.»