Rua Segura - April 9/10/11 2019

One could say that CMTV in Portugal has, paraphrasing Joe Moura, a pattern, a habit for its nightly programming.

This, shall we call it, routine starts with a panel of sport-commentators which may vary in the name of the show but basically it’s the always the same formula: one or 2 commentators to the right of the host, another one or 2 to his left and debate endlessly about the 3 major football clubs of the country: Benfica, Porto and Sporting.

This is followed by a program with a somewhat similar format about criminal topics. This program is called  ‘Rua Segura’.

The difference between this one and the sports panel – besides the commentators having obviously different expertise, Carlos Anjos, Paulo Sargento, Rui Pereira and Moita Flores are often present – is that the debates are about reports prepared and shown by the program.

There are reports shown on the program that are not debated, very much like in any news program.

‘Rua Segura’ can then be classified as a criminal news program with extended debates on certain topics.

The readers of the blog and those familiar with the CMTV “news” on the case will recognise the program. It’s in this format that Mr Amaral has appeared in this network. Then it has been called a “CMTV Special”, where various reports on Maddie are shown and then he and other commentators debate them.

After ‘Rua Segura’, CMTV follows it up with a short sport news program. Basically, every night it’s this routine: sport, crime (‘Rua Segura’) and sport. That’s how CMTV captures its audience and maintains its high ratings.

We are making this post because last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, CMTV decided to give the Maddie case some attention.

We will transcribe in this post what was said in all 3 shows.

We are fully aware of some imprecision (for example, saying that Operation Grange started in 2010, that cadaver odour was signalled in the kid’s bedroom, that the dogs came only after the parents had left Portugal and that Kate wrote her book recently to list the most glaring) but the reader will see that the inaccuracies are more due to the erosion of time than due to the intent to mislead.

Also the reader will see that commentators have different opinions from the blog. Moita Flores appears to be certain of negligence and Mr Amaral raises the possibility that Maddie may also have been sedated.

But the common thread is how the Portuguese perceive the case, otherwise CMTV would not have taken so clearly the slant favouring the McCann’s guilt.

Also to be noted is the extensive use of images from the videos of the dogs and the repeated use of the word ‘cadaver’

It shows clearly that Netflix did not sway in any way the Portuguese public opinion on the case.

As always, we will also publish the Portuguese transcriptions so that Portuguese speakers can correct our translation in case they feel they should. Many of the reports are repeated but we have transcribed them as they appeared daily.

On Tuesday, the program aired 2 reports followed by a debate. Present Moita Flores, Rosa Amaral (a psychologist) and Rui Pereira.

The first report was about Mark Perlin and his offer to SY which had obtained no response and the second was about how Operation Grange has wasted £13 million and on the verge of wasting more without producing a single suspect even though they said they were following new leads last time they requested funding.

On Wednesday, the program aired 4 reports on the McCanns, none were debated. The first report was a repeat of the second one of the previous day about how Operation Grange has wasted £13 million.

The second was about the alleged deal that Kate accuses the Portuguese police of having proposed. CMTV calls it an “indecent proposal”. As the reader will see, the PJ offered her nothing as even Kate recognises that it was a lawyer who allegedly spoke to her about it, something that is not even allowed in Portugal.

The third was about the McCanns delving into their marriage and sex life.

The fourth, and the longest of the reports, was about the specifics of the case. To be highlighted was  how much the dogs were shown in this segment. Mr Amaral also spoke of the Smith sighting and why he thinks the children were sedated that night.

The fifth and last of the day was a repeat of the first one aired Tuesday about Mark Perlin’s offer.

On Thursday, it was again Mark Perlin’s offer - meaning it was aired 3 times in 3 days - but on this day with Colin Sutton’s “participation” in it but without naming him.

Here are the transcripts (please note that in one of them we used caps when Moita Flores says the word “POLITICAL” and we did this because he does raise his voice when saying it):


- On Tuesday, April 9: 

Magali Pinto: An American researcher offered his laboratory to re-examine the DNA samples from the Madeleine case that were considered inconclusive. The British police has ignored this offer that was free.

Voice over (VO): The police investigating the Maddie case in the UK have ignored an offer from US forensic experts to re-examine DNA samples that were considered scant, too complex and inconclusive, insufficient to draw conclusions. Mark Perlin reports that the advanced techniques of his lab in the US can give results that were not possible 12 years ago. Scotland Yard has ignored the free offer to reanalyse inconclusive DNA samples in the hope of solving the Maddie mystery. This new expert says that the new techniques can bring surprising results. The evidence was collected, we remind, in the apartment in the Algarve and in the car rented by the McCann family after the police having detected a cadaver odour. The Portuguese police sent these vestiges to be analysed in a forensic laboratory in Birmingham, UK. At the time the experts said that some components of DNA corresponded to Maddie but that the samples were too complex for a meaningful interpretation. This US expert believes that the methods they used at the time are now outdated, the expert says that his laboratory, which even helped identify 9/11 victims, can unblock what the British laboratory could not. The offer was made last year but to date has not obtained a response. 

MP: The English police have not yet received the more than 300 thousand euros that it has asked, in fact, to investigate the disappearance of Maddie. Altogether, 13 million have already been spent, although no clue or suspect has emerged.

Voice over (VO): The British detectives from Operation Grange who investigate the case of the disappearance of Maddie McCann, are determined to continue working even though having already spent more than 13 million euros during several years and never having presented suspects. Scotland Yard has again asked for money to continue the search for Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Praia da Luz in Lagos, Algarve, almost 12 years ago. The authorities have requested about 340 thousand euros, amount requested from the Home Office. We recall that at the end of 2018, the British defense (?) contributed with more than 150,000 pounds, 164,000 euros in Portugal, to continue the investigations, after the English press reported that the authorities were investigating 2 new leads. If there is this new funding, the investigation will have accumulated more than 13 million euros since 2010, but the truth is that this money has not yet been unblocked. Madeleine McCann disappeared on the night of May 3, 2007, in Lagos, at the age of four. Since then the case has been one with the most media in the world. 

MP: Francisco, to... the English police to ignore an offer that above all is free, it does not want those samples that were sent from Portugal and that were collected both in the apartment and in the boot of the car rented by the McCann couple, it does not want to send these samples because it doesn’t even want to know the results?

Moita Flores (MF): As your report says, 13 million pounds later, the police the only thing that interests them is that family is not touched. All that the English police have done is in the direction distancing any hypothesis of involving that family and friends in this case, and it is already humiliating with so many children who have already disappeared in England, they asking for so much money to investigate this case, without doing the only diligence that could open and shed some light and which costs a few thousand pounds. As I have said here many times, it’s the reconstitution according to the statements they gave in court. All the friends. Because of the 8 friends, there are certainly 4 who are lying, but lying blatantly, and the reconstitution would solve the problem of who lied and why they were lying. Usually when one lies about a child it is because one is compromised with her death. This is the history, when one lies in court, when one is dealing with a case such as this. And what happens is that after all these years, after 13 million pounds ... something that would cost 10,000 or 20,000 pounds, it isn’t done, and it will never be done because the objective at the moment, POLITICAL and it was from the night of disappearance, POLITICAL and police objective was to cover-up this case. This money was not spent to discover children who disappeared, others, because they have already disappeared in England a few hundred, it was, it was used to cover-up this case. 

MP: In one minute, Dr. Rosa, Madeleine McCann's mother had the need to write a book in which she made some revelations ... how do you interpret this need to write a book about her daughter and about her disappearance 12 years after?

Rosa Amaral (psychologist) (RA): A need like this can be interpreted as mourning process. It is a complex process, when it is the mourning of a child, it is an unfinished process that will be in a circular way, going on through the passage of time and often the parents who survived to facilitate the process of mourning may adopt 'n' strategies. There are parents who found associations, there are parents who fundraise to create financing for similar situations, in this case one could think that she decided to write a book as a cathartic process, a process of herself trying to keep the memory of her daughter alive, of exposing yourself, of releasing the entire grieving process of mourning, believing ...

MF:... and of guilt.

RA: ... believing that she would be doing it in this sense. Taking the theory that was here exposed previously it could be ...

MF: No ... no, Dr, there really has to be a complex of guilt because they abandoned the children.

MP: Of course.

RA: Yes.

MF: If they had not abandoned the children none of this would have happened. They committed a crime, all of them, a crime of abandonment of a minor.

RA: Yes.

MF: And she knows that she committed that crime ... so Portugal was very merciful and complacent with this crime ...

MP: Professor, I have few seconds to give you until the end of the program, however, telling you that the police are still waiting for the 300 thousand euros that they asked to continue the investigation, does it make sense to ask for this money? 

Rui Pereira: No. I think that pouring money on this investigation is irrelevant. What makes sense is to think, to really think before acting. I agree with the idea how the reconstitution is important, although it was more important in the past, it is already late, and the essential mistake, I have also said from the beginning, was not to constitute on the first moment the parents as arguidos of the crime of exposure to abandonment.

MP: Thank you to the 3 of you for your presence in the program and this is the end of ‘Rua Segura’.




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- On Wednesday, April 10:

Magali Pinto (MP): ... we move on with the program, the English police have not yet received the more than 300 thousand euros that it has asked for, in fact, to investigate the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Altogether, 13 million has already been spent, although no clue or suspect has emerged.

Voice over (VO): The British detectives from Operation Grange who investigate the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, are determined to continue working even though having already spent more than 13 million euros during several years and never having presented suspects. Scotland Yard has again asked for money to continue the search for Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Praia da Luz in Lagos, Algarve, almost 12 years ago. The authorities have requested about 340 thousand euros, an amount requested from the Home Office. We recall that at the end of 2018, the British defense (?) contributed with more than 150,000 pounds, 164,000 euros in Portugal, to continue the investigations, after the English press reported that the authorities were investigating 2 new leads. If there is this new funding, the investigation will have accumulated more than 13 million euros since 2010, but the truth is that this money has not yet been unblocked. Madeleine McCann disappeared on the night of May 3, 2007, in Lagos, at the age of four. Since then the case has been one with the most media in the world.

MP: Kate McCann wrote a book where she reveals that she received an indecent proposal from the police. Says Madeleine McCann's mother that if she admitted to having killed her daughter and hidden her body, her husband could remain free.

VO: Kate McCann claims that she had an indecent proposal from the Portuguese police who proposed that if Kate admitted that she had killed Maddie, her husband Gerry could remain free. Kate says that a lawyer made the offensive proposal, a few months after Madeleine disappeared, revelations that are part of Kate’s book with the name "madeleine". Kate McCann said she was offered an agreement by the Portuguese police who told her that husband would remain free if she admitted that she had killed her daughter. What Kate considers to be an offensive gesture was the proposal that she would only be jailed for two years if she confessed that she had caused her daughter's death and hid her body. According to the newspaper, the Sun, after Maddie disappeared a lawyer who helped the McCann couple, told Kate that if she accepted the agreement, it would be much better than both ending up accused of homicide. She was also told that if she did not accept, she and her husband could go to prison. The lawyer also would have said that if Kate were to take the blame, Gerry would remain free and could return to work in the UK and take care of the twins. Kate reveals in the book "madeleine”, that when he learned, her husband's reaction was to fall to his knees, crying and sobbing. Kate was furious and told the lawyer not only she would not admit a lie, also told the lawyer that the two were completely innocent. He said that if she followed the advice, the searches for Madeleine would end.

   
MP: The next May 3 will be 12 years that Madeleine disappeared.

VO: Almost 12 years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Praia da Luz in the Algarve, a profile of Maddie's parents is done, and to the question of who Madeleine McCann's parents are, the answer is this: Kate and Gerry are both Catholics who met in Glasgow in 1993, Kate became a GP after studying medicine at the University of Dundee, and Gerry a cardiologist since 2005. They were married in 1998, Maddie was born in 2003. They also have 2 twins who were born in 2005. They were married for 9 years when Madeleine disappeared. Shortly after Maddie disappeared, Kate said that the marriage was almost ended, with Kate closing in on herself. She stopped reading, to listen to music, and even of having sex with her husband, Gerry. The couple were overcome by fears that a paedophile had taken their daughter Maddie. Writing about this in her biography, Kate says that she tortured herself with that idea and with those images, and because of that it isn’t surprising in her opinion, that even sex caused her some disgust. Kate also says that she was concerned with her and Gerry, says that she was concerned that the couple would not be able to put their sexual life in the right path and that the relationship would end. Kate counted on the understanding, she says, of her husband and on the strength and endurance of their marriage, made the marriage last. They are still together up to today.

MP: And let us now recap some of the essential points of the investigation and the questions put to Madeleine McCann's parents.

VO: One of the key moments in the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance happened at a time when the child's parents had left our country at the end of the summer of 2007. It was only then that the English police made available two dogs that had already been used to clarify various crimes abroad. The animals, capable of smelling the odour of death, signalled the presence of a cadaver in 3 locations, in the room where the child slept until May 3 inside the Ocean Club apartment in Praia da Luz, in the garden of the resort and inside the boot of the car used by the McCann couple a few days after the disappearance of the child, namely for a trip to Huelva, Spain, following another false sighting of Maddie. This lead provided by Scotland Yard's special dogs ended up not being valued later in the investigation, even because the McCanns did not return to Portugal while the process was open. As were ignored the biological fluids also found in the living room of the apartment and that pointed to the hypothesis of the body being frozen. In the boot of the car were also found hairs that were sent to England. The genetic comparison was not conclusive but Gonçalo Amaral admits that the results pointed to the possibility of the body having been transported in the rented car after the disappearance. In September 2007 Madeleine's parents returned to England claiming they wanted peace, however, clues continued to reach the PJ.

[inserted a clip from the CMTV 10th anniversary documentary]


Unidentified reporter (UR): ... because a family appears that ends up proving itself fundamental ...

Gonçalo Amaral (GA): ... fundamental to the investigation ...

UR: ... to the investigation.

 
GA: Exactly, it is a family with various elements, an Irish family, with the surname Smith, that that night they all had dinner in this restaurant down here, that is the Delfin [sic], leave the restaurant... and when they go up, when they come walking, they all come by here, they cross with an individual who they describe, who brings, in a hurried pace, and on that side of the walk, a blonde child, the description of the missing child, on his arms with the head leaning here. They cannot see the facial features of this child, but describe her as being about 3 years old, as who is saying it is a grandfather and has, has grandchildren of that age too. So, this is the first event, and they say that, at this point Robert Murat was suspected of having something to do with the case, and that gentleman says "I know Robert Murat and that individual is not Robert Murat”. Later, when the parents of the child had returned to England, we are talking about September, mid-September, there is an image on TV that shows the couple arriving on the runway, getting off the plane, walking on the runway, and this family, this ... this main witness sees, and for him when he sees the missing child's father with one of the twins in his arms, in that position as he had seen here and the way he walked, says "I'm seeing the person I crossed with that night of May 3 in Praia da Luz”.

VO: In the documentary that addresses all the theses about Maddie's disappearance, the parents appear as suspects. This happens as soon as PJ decides to open up its game and say that there was the possibility that the girl was dead. At that time it was also said that the three children were sedated so the parents dined in peace. 

[inserted a clip from the CMTV 10th anniversary documentary]

GA: They were asleep, they continued to sleep up to... until the police arrived, everyone, a lot of noise inside the house, from witnesses, from Ocean Club staff and still sleeping they were carried to the apartment, to another apartment that they were later removed to, continuing to sleep, when later it was known that the mother spent all night with her hand checking the nose and mouth to see if they were breathing, something that is also a bit serious ...

UR: ... and that would indicate what?

GA: That would indicate that she knew they could be sedated, so to speak, with something and was afraid that something might happen to them as it possibly may have happened to the missing child.

VO: Another one of the moments that raised the most doubts among those who suspect the involvement of the parents in the disappearance of the child has to do with the day Maddie's mother was questioned all day by the police. At the time Kate refused to answer 48 questions that were put to her by Portimão’s PJ in the questioning that began in the morning and ended at night. Many of the questions suggested that blood, as well as cadaver odour had been found in the apartment where the child slept. One of the questions is clear: if Kate had any responsibility or intervention in the disappearance of her daughter. 48 questions, zero answers.

MP: And an American researcher offered his laboratory to re-examine the DNA samples from the Madeleine case that were considered inconclusive. The British police has ignored this free offer.

VO: The police investigating the Maddie case in the UK have ignored an offer from US forensic experts to re-examine DNA samples that were considered scant, too complex and inconclusive, insufficient to draw conclusions. Mark Perlin reports that the advanced techniques of his lab in the US can give results that were not possible 12 years ago. Scotland Yard has ignored the free offer to reanalyse inconclusive DNA samples in the hope of solving the Maddie mystery. This new expert says that the new techniques can bring surprising results. The evidence was collected, we remind, in the apartment in the Algarve and in the car rented by the McCann family after the police having detected a cadaver odour. The Portuguese police sent these vestiges to be analysed in a forensic laboratory in Birmingham, UK. At the time the experts said that some components of DNA corresponded to Maddie but that the samples were too complex for a meaningful interpretation. This US expert believes that the methods they used at the time are now outdated, the expert says that his laboratory, which even helped identify 9/11 victims, can unblock what the British laboratory could not. The offer was made last year but to date has not obtained a response.

MP: That’s the end of ‘Rua Segura’.


*****

- On Thursday, April 11:

Magali Pinto: Let's move on ‘Rua Segura’, British experts are pressuring Scotland Yard to send the DNA samples of the Maddie case to the US. The new analysis could bring a turnaround to the case.

Voice over: The police investigating the Maddie case in the UK have ignored an offer from US forensic experts to re-examine DNA samples that were considered scant, too complex and inconclusive, insufficient to draw conclusions. British forensic experts and retired police officers are pressuring Scotland Yard to send the samples and do not understand the absence of a response. An example of this is a detective who in his career has solved 30 homicides, he also believes that this offer of new expertise can help solve the mystery of Madeleine McCann. Basically, what British police had to do was to send the 18 DNA samples collected at that time by the Portuguese police and analysed in England to the US, but so far nothing has been done in that direction. We remind that Mark Perlin, a North American forensic expert, reports that the advanced techniques of his lab in the US can give results that were not possible 12 years ago. This new expert says that the new techniques can bring surprising results. The evidence was collected in the apartment in the Algarve and in the car rented by the family after the police having detected a cadaver odour. The Portuguese police sent these vestiges to be analysed in a forensic laboratory in Birmingham, UK. At the time the experts said that some components of DNA corresponded to Maddie but that the samples were too complex for a meaningful interpretation. This US expert believes that the methods they used at the time are now outdated, the expert says that his laboratory, which helped even identify 9/11 victims, can unblock what the British laboratory could not.


Transcriptions in Portuguese:


Terça-feira, 09 de Abril:

Magali Pinto: Um investigador norte-americano ofereceu o seu laboratório para voltar a analisar as amostras de ADN do caso Madeleine que foram consideradas inconclusivas. A polícia inglesa ignorou esta oferta que era gratuita.

Voz off (Voz off): Os polícias que investigam o caso Maddie no Reino Unido ignoraram uma oferta de especialistas forenses norte-americanos para voltar a analisar as amostras de ADN que foram consideradas escassas, demasiado complexas e inconclusivas, insuficientes para tirar conclusões. Mark Perlin denuncia que as avançadas técnicas do seu laboratório nos EUA podem dar resultados que não eram possíveis há 12 anos. A Scotland Yard ignorou a oferta grátis para reanalisar amostras de ADN inconclusivas na esperança de resolver o mistério Maddie. Este novo perito diz que as novas técnicas podem trazer resultados surpreendentes. As provas foram recolhidas, recorde-se, no apartmento no Algarve e no carro alugado pela família McCann depois dos polícias terem detectado odor a cadáver. A polícia portuguesa enviou estes vestígios para serem analisados num laboratório forense de Birmingham, no Reino Unido. Na altura os peritos disseram que alguns componentes do ADN correspondiam a Maddie mas que as amostras eram demasiado complexas para uma interpretação com sentido. Este perito norte-americano acredita que os métodos que usaram na altura estão agora ultrapassados, o especialista diz que o seu laboratório, que ajudou inclusivamente a identificar vítimas do 11 de Setembro, pode desbloquear aquilo que o laboratório britânico não conseguiu. A oferta foi feita no ano passado mas até hoje não obteve resposta.

MP: A polícia inglesa ainda não recebeu os mais de 300 mil euros que pediu para investigar of desaparecimento de Maddie. Ao todo, já foram gastos 13 milhões, embora não tenha surgido qualquer pista ou suspeito.

VO: Os detetectives britânicos da operação Grange que investigam o caso do desaparecimento do caso de Maddie McCann, estão determinados a continuar os trabalhos apesar de já terem gasto mais the 13 milhões de euros em vários anos e nunca terem apresentado suspeitos. A Scotland Yard voltou a pedir dinheiro para continuar as buscas por Madeleine McCann que desapareceu na Praia da Luz em Lagos, no Algarve, há quase 12 anos. As autoridades pedem cerca de 340 mil euros, quantia solicitada ao ministério da administração interna do país . Recorde-se que no final de 2018, a defesa britânica contribuiu com mais de 150 mil libras, 164 mil euros em Portugal, para continuar as investigações, após a imprensa inglesa ter noticiado que as autoridades estavam a investigar 2 novas pistas. Caso haja este novo financiamento, a investigação passa a acumular mais de 13 milhões e meio de euros desde 2010, mas a verdade é que esse dinheiro ainda não foi desbloqueado. Madeleine McCann desapareceu na noite de 3 de Maio de 2007, em Lagos, aos 4 anos de idade. Desde então o caso tem sido um dos mais mediáticos do mundo.

MP: Francisco, ao… a polícia inglesa ao ignorar uma oferta que ainda por cima é gratuita, não quer que essas amostras que foram enviadas a partir de Portugal e que foram recolhidas tanto no apartamento como na bagageira do carro alugado pelo casal McCann, não quer enviar estas amostras porque não quer sequer saber os resultados?

Moita Flores (MF): Como diz a vossa peça, 13 milhões de libras depois, a polícia a única coisa que lhe interessa é que não toquem naquela família. Por tudo aquilo que a polícia inglesa tem feito é no sentido de afastar qualquer hipótese de envolver aquela família e aqueles amigos, neste caso, e já é humilhante com tantas crianças já desapareceram em Inglaterra, eles estarem a pedir tanto dinheiro para investigar este caso, sem fazerem a única diligência que podia abrir e fazer alguma luz e que custa alguns milhares de libras. Como eu já disse aqui muitas vezes, que é a reconstituição de acordo com as declarações que eles prestaram no tribunal. Todos os amigos. Porque do 8 amigos, há seguramente 4 que está a mentir, mas a mentir descaradamente, e a reconstituição resolvia o problema de quem é que mentiu e porque é que mentia. Vulgarmente quando se mente acerca duma criança é porque se está comprometido com a sua morte. É esta a história, quando se mente em tribunal, quando estamos a tratar dum caso destes. E o que se passa é que passados estes anos todos, passados 13 milhões de libras… uma coisa que custaria 10 mil ou 20 mil libras, não se faz, e nunca se há-de fazer porque o objectivo deste momento, POLÍTICO e foi desde essa noite do desaparecimento, POLÍTICO e policial foi encobrir este caso. Este dinheiro não foi gasto para descobrir crianças que desapareceram, outras, porque já desapareceram em Inglaterra umas centenas, foi, foi utilizado para encobrir este caso.

MP: Num minuto, Dra Rosa, a mãe de Madeleine McCann teve a necessidade de escrever um livro em que fez algumas revelações… como é que interpreta esta necessidade de escrever um livro sobre a filha e sobre o desaparecimento da filha 12 anos depois?

Rosa Amaral (psicóloga) (RA): Uma necessidade destas pode ser interpretada por um processo de luto. É um processo complexo, quando é o luto dum filho, é um processo inacabado e que vai estar de forma circular, a decorrer ao longo da passagem do tempo e muitas das vezes os pais sobreviventes para facilitar o processo de luto podem adoptar ‘n’ estratégias. Há pais que fundam associações, há pais que angariam verbas para criarem financiamentos para situações semelhantes, neste caso poderia-se pensar que ela decidiu escrever um livro como um processo de catárse, um processo dela mesma de tentar manter viva aqui a memória da filha, expor-se, libertar todo o processo doloroso de luto, acreditando…

MF: … e de culpa.

RA: …acreditando que o estaria a fazer neste sentido. Agarrando na teoria que foi exposta aqui anteriormente poderia ser…
MF: Não… não, Sra Dra, é que há mesmo que haver forçosamente um complexo de culpa porque eles abandonaram as crianças.

MP: Claro.

RA: Sim.

MF: Se eles não tivessem abandonado as crianças nada disto tinha acontecido. Cometeram um crime, todos, um crime de abandono de menor.

RA: Sim.

MF: E ela sabe que cometeu esse crime… portanto, Portugal é que foi muito benemérito e complacente com esse crime…

MP: Professor, tenho poucos segundos para lhe dar até ao final do programa, no entanto, dizer-lhe que a polícia continua à espera dos 300 mil euros que pediu para continuar a investigação, faz sentido pedir este dinheiro?

Rui Pereira: Não. Eu creio que deitar dinheiro para cima desta investigação é irrelevante. O que faz sentido é realmente pensar, pensar bem antes de agir. Eu concordo com a ideia de como a reconstituição é importante, embora fosse mais importante no passado, já vem tarde, e o erro essencial, eu também o disse desde o início, foi não constituir num primeiro momento os pais arguidos pelo crime de exposição ao abandono.

MP: Obrigada aos 3 pela vossa presença no programa e é o ponto final no Rua Segura.


*****

 - Quarta-feira, 10 de Abril:

Magali Pinto (MP): …vamos avançar no programa, a polícia inglesa ainda não recebeu os mais de 300 mil euros pa… que pediu, aliás, para investigar of desaparecimento de Madeleine McCann. Ao todo, já foram gastos 13 milhões, embora não tenha surgido qualquer pista ou suspeito.

Voz off (VO): Os detetectives britânicos da operação Grange que investigam o caso do desaparecimento do caso de Madeleine McCann, estão determinados a continuar os trabalhos apesar de já terem gasto mais the 13 milhões de euros em vários anos e nunca terem apresentado suspeitos. A Scotland Yard voltou a pedir dinheiro para continuar as buscas por Madeleine McCann que desapareceu na Praia da Luz em Lagos, no Algarve, há quase 12 anos. As autoridades pedem cerca de 340 mil euros, quantia solicitada ao ministério da administração do país . Recorde-se que no final de 2018, a defesa britânica contribuiu com mais de 150 mil libras, 164 mil euros em Portugal, para continuar as investigações, após a imprensa inglesa ter noticiado que as autoridades estarem a investigar 2 novas pistas. Caso haja este novo financiamento, a investigação passa a acumular mais de 13 milhões e meio de euros desde 2010, mas a verdade é que esse dinheiro ainda não foi desbloqueado. Madeleine McCann desapareceu na noite de 3 de Maio de 2007, em Lagos, aos 4 anos de idade. Desde então o caso tem sido um dos mais mediáticos do mundo.

 MP: Kate McCann escreveu um livro onde revela que recebeu uma proposta indecente da polícia. Diz a mãe de Madeleine McCann que se admitisse ter morto e escondido o corpo da filha, o marido podia ficar em liberdade.

VO: Kate McCann afirma que teve uma proposta indecente da polícia portuguesa que propôs que se Kate admitisse que tinha matado Maddie, o marido Gerry podia ficar em liberdade. Kate conta que um advogado fez a proposta ofensiva, poucos meses após Madeleine desaparecer, revelações que fazem parte do livro de Kate com o nome “Madeleine”. Kate McCann contou que lhe foi proposto um acordo pela polícia portuguesa que lhe disse que o marido ficava em liberdade se admitisse que tinha matado a filha. Aquilo que Kate considera um gesto ofensivo, foi a proposta de que ficaria apenas dois anos presa se confessasse que tinha causado a morte da filha e escondido o corpo. Segundo o jornal, the Sun, depois de Maddie ter desaparecido um advogado que ajudava o casal McCann, contou a Kate que se ela aceitasse o acordo, seria muito melhor do que os dois acabarem acusados de homícidio. Também lhe foi dito que se não aceitasse, ela e o marido podiam ir para a prisão. O advogado terá dito também que se Kate assumisse culpas, Gerry ficaria em liberdade e poderia regressar ao trabalho no Reino Unido e tomar conta dos gémeos. Kate revela no livro “Madeleine”, que quando soube, a reacção do marido foi cair de joelhos, a chorar e soluçar. Kate ficou furiosa e disse ao advogado que não só não iria admitir uma mentira, afirmando também ao advogado que os dois eram completamamente inocentes. Disse ainda que se seguisse o conselho, as buscas por Madeleine iriam terminar.

MP: A próximo dia 3 de Maio faz 12 anos que Madeleine desapareceu.

VO: A fazer 12 anos do desaparecimento de Madeleine McCann na Praia da Luz no Algarve é feito um perfil dos pais de Maddie, e à pergunta quem são afinal os pais de Madeleine McCann, a resposta é esta: Kate e Gerry são ambos católicos que se conheceram em Glasgow em 1993, Kate tornou-se médica de clínica geral após estudar medicina na Universidade de Dundee, e Gerry um cardiologista desde 2005. Casaram em 1998, Maddie nasceu em 2003. Também têm 2 gémeos que nasceram em 2005. Estavam casados há 9 anos quando Madeleine desapareceu. Logo após Maddie desaparecer, Kate contou que o casamento quase acabou, com Kate a fechar-se em si própria. Parou de ler, de ouvir música e até de ter sexo com o marido, Gerry. O casal foi tomado pelo medo de que um pedófilo tivesse levado a filha Maddie. A escrever sobre isto na sua biografia, Kate conta que se torturou com essa ideia e com essas imagens, e por isso mesmo não é surpreendente na sua opinião, que até o sexo lhe desse alguma repulsa. Diz ainda Kate que se preocupou por ela e pelo Gerry , diz ainda que se preocupou que o casal não iria conseguir meter a vida sexual no eixos e que a relação ía acabar. Kate contou com a compreensão, diz ela, do marido e com a força e resistência do casamento dos dois, foi fazer durar o casamento. Continuam juntos até hoje.

MP: E vamos agora recuperar algum dos pontos essenciais da investigação e as perguntas feitas aos pais de Madeleine McCann.

VO: Um dos momentos chave da investigação ao desaparecimento de Madeleine McCann aconteceu já numa altura em que os pais da criança tinham deixado o nosso país no final do verão de 2007. Só nessa altura é que a polícia inglesa disponibilizou 2 cães que já tinham sido usados para esclarecer vários crimes no estrangeiro. Os animais, capazes de cheirar o odor a morte, sinalizaram a presença de um cadáver em 3 locais, no quarto onde a criança dormiu até 3 de Maio dentro do apartamento do Ocean Club na Praia da Luz, no jardim to aldeamento e no interior da mala do carro que foi utilizado pelo casal McCann alguns dias depois do desaparecimento da criança, nomeadamente para uma viagem a Huelva, em Espanha, na sequência de mais um falso avistamento de Maddie. Esta pista fornecida por cães especiais da Scotland Yard acabou depois por não ser valorada na investigação, até porque os McCann não voltaram a Portugal enquanto o processo esteve em aberto. Tal como foram ignorados os fluídos biológicos encontrados igualmente na sala do apartamento e que apontavam para a hipótese de congelamento do cadáver. Na bagageira do carro foram igualmente encntrados cabelos que foram enviados para Inglaterra. A comparação genética não foi conclusiva mas Gonçalo Amaral admite que os resultados apontavam para a possibilidade de o corpo ter sido transportado no automóvel alugado após o desaparecimento. Em Setembro de 2007 os pais de Madeleine regressaram a Inglaterra alegando que queriam paz, no entanto, as pistas continuaram a chegar à PJ

Repórter Não-identificada (RNI): … porque aparecem uma família que acaba por se revelar de uma forma fundamental…

Gonçalo Amaral (GA): …fundamental para a investigação…

RNI: … para a investigação.
 

GA: Exacto, é uma família com vários elementos, uma família irlandesa, de apelido Smith, que nessa noite jantam todos neste restaurante aqui em baixo, que é o Delfin, por sair do restaurante… e quando sobem, quando vêm a caminhar, vêm todos por aqui, cruzam-se com um indivíduo que descrevem, que traz, vem com um passo ligeiro, e desse lado do passeio, uma criança loira, a descrição da criança desaparecida, ao colo com a cabeça aqui encostada. Não conseguem ver as feições dessa criança, mas descrevem como sendo de 3 anos de idade por aí, até porque quem diz isso é avô e tem, tem netos também dessa idade. Portanto, esse é o primeiro acontecimento, e dizem logo que, nessa altura suspeitava-se de Robert Murat como tendo alguma coisa a ver com o caso, e esse senhor diz “eu conheço Robert Murat e aquele indivíduo não é Robert Murat”. Mais tarde, já quando os pais da criança regressam a Inglaterra, estamos a falar em Setembro, em meados de Setembro, há uma imagem televisiva que se vê o casal a chegar à pista, a descer do avião, a andar na pista, e essa família, esse… essa testemunha principal vê e para ele, quando vê o pai da criança desaparecida com um dos gémeos ao colo, naquela posição como ele tinha visto aqui e a forma como andava diz “eu estou a ver a pessoa com quem me cruzei naquela noite de 3 de Maio na Praia da Luz”.

VO: No documentário que aborda todas as teses sobre o desaparecimento de Maddie, os pais surgem como suspeitos. Isto acontece assim que a PJ decide abrir o jogo e dizer que havia a possibilidade da menina estar morta. Nessa altura também se falava que os 3 filhos estavam sedados para os pais jantarem tranquilamente.

GA: Estavam a dormir, continuaram a dormir desde que… até que chegou a polícia, toda a gente, muito barulho dentro de casa, das testemunhas, de funcionários do Ocean Club e a dormir foram para o apartamento, para outro apartamento que foram retirados depois, e continuando a dormir, quando mais tarde se veio a saber que a mãe passou a noite toda com a mão a ver no nariz e na boca a ver se eles respiravam, uma coisa que também é um pouco séria…

RNI: … e isso indicará o quê?

GA: Indicará que ela sabia que eles poderiam estar sedado, digamos assim, com uma coisa e estava com medo que alguma coisa pudesse acontecer a eles como porventura poderá ter acontecido à criança desaparecida.

VO: Outros dos momentos que levantam mais dúvidas entre aqueles que suspeitam do envolvimento dos pais no desaparecimento da criança tem a ver com o dia em que a mãe de Maddie foi interrogada ao longo de todo o dia pela polícia. Na altura Kate recusou-se a responder a 48 questões que lhe foram colocadas pela PJ de Portimão no interrogatório que começou de manhã e terminou à noite. Muitas das perguntas sugeriam que teria sido encontrado sangue, bem como odor de cadáver na casa em que a criança dormia. Uma das perguntas é clara: se Kate teve alguma responsabilidade ou intervenção no desaparecimento da filha. 48 perguntas, zero respostas.

MP: E um investigador norte-americano ofereceu o seu laboratório para voltar a analisar as amostras de ADN do caso Madeleine que foram consideradas inconclusivas. A polícia inglesa ignorou esta oferta gratuita.

VO: Os polícias que investigam o caso Maddie no Reino Unido ignoraram uma oferta de especialistas forenses norte-americanos para voltar a analisar as amostras de ADN que foram consideradas escassas, demasiado complexas e inconclusivas, insuficientes para tirar conclusões. Mark Perlin denuncia que as avançadas técnicas do seu laboratório nos EUA podem dar resultados que não eram possíveis há 12 anos. A Scotland Yard ignorou a oferta grátis para reanalisar amostras de ADN inconclusivas na esperança de resolver o mistério Maddie. Este novo perito diz que as novas técnicas podem trazer resultados surpreendentes. As provas foram recolhidas, recorde-se, no apartmento no Algarve e no carro alugado pela família McCann depois dos polícias terem detectado odor a cadáver. A polícia portuguesa enviou estes vestígios para serem analisados num laboratório forense de Birmingham, no Reino Unido. Na altura os peritos disseram que alguns componentes do ADN correspondiam a Maddie mas que as amostras eram demasiado complexas para uma interpretação com sentido. Este perito norte-americano acredita que os métodos que usaram na altura estão agora ultrapassados, o especialista diz que o seu laboratório, que ajudou inclusivamente a identificar vítimas do 11 de Setembro, pode desbloquear aquilo que o laboratório britânico não conseguiu. A oferta foi feita no ano passado mas até hoje não obteve resposta.

MP: Ponto Final no Rua Segura.

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- Quinta-feira, 11 Abril:

Magali Pinto: Vamos avançar no Rua Segura, especialistas ingleses estão a fazer pressão para que a Scotland Yard envie as amostras de ADN do caso Maddie para os EUA. As novas análises podem trazer uma reviravolta ao caso.

Voz off: Os polícias que investigam o caso Maddie no Reino Unido ignoraram uma oferta de especialistas forenses norte-americanos para voltar a analisar as amostras de ADN que foram consideradas escassas, demasiado complexas e inconclusivas, insuficientes para tirar conclusões. Especialistas forenses e polícias britânicos na reforma estão a pressionar a Scotland Yard em enviar as amostras e não percebem as faltas de respostas. Exemplo disso é um detective que na sua carreira desvendou 30 homicídios, também ele acredita que esta oferta de novas perícias pode ajudar a resolver o mistério de Madeleine McCann. Basicamente o que a polícia britânica tinha de fazer era enviar as 18 amostras de ADN recolhidas na altura pela polícia portuguesa e analisadas em Inglaterra para os EU, mas até agora nada foi feito nesse sentido . Recorde-se que Mark Perlin, perito forrense norte-americano denuncia que as avançadas técnicas do seu laboratório nos EUA podem dar resultados que não eram possíveis há 12 anos. Este novo perito diz que as novas técnicas podem trazer resultados surpreendentes. As provas foram recolhidas no apartmento no Algarve e no carro alugado pela família depois dos polícias terem detectado odor a cadáver. A polícia portuguesa enviou estes vestígios para serem analisados num laboratório forense de Birmingham, no Reino Unido. Na altura os peritos disseram que alguns componentes do ADN correspondiam a Maddie mas que as amostras eram demasiado complexas para uma interpretação com sentido. Este perito norte-americano acredita que os métodos que usaram na altura estão agora ultrapassados, o especialista diz que o seu laboratório, que ajudou a identificar inclusivamente vítimas do 11 de Setembro, pode desbloquear aquilo que o laboratório britânico não conseguiu.