NO VIOLATION BY PORTUGAL

Just a quick note:

The McCanns can request referral to Grand Chamber and they have 3 months to do it, but in our opinion, it’s unlikely to be granted.

Update on Oct 18, 2022

It seems the McCanns filed an "appeal" to prolong the process.

Although it's our opinion that that it will not be admitted, in case it is this could delay matters for another 3 years, if we are interpreting this correctly:

https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/FAQ_GC_ENG.pdf 

A decision on admissibility comes first, then a possible wait of 3 years if application is admitted.

That would allow for OG to continue so that FOIs can be denied on the basis they could interfere with an ongoing investigation.

McCann ECHR Decision - September 20, 2022

 

Note how the Daily Mail gives these news.

By reading the link, one is lead to believe the McCanns won:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11215227/Madeleine-McCanns-parents-finally-Tuesday-won-14-YEAR-libel-battle.html

Or basically: “Madeleine McCann parents finally Tuesday won 14 YEAR libel battle”

One, on reading this, would be certain that the McCanns won, Portugal (not Amaral) has lost and that it was all about libel!

It doesn’t say which Tuesday and it doesn’t say “if they have won”. It just says, WON, past tense. On a Tuesday, misleading readers into thinking it was last Tuesday.

But opening up the article, this is what Nick Pisa has to say:

EXCLUSIVE: Madeleine McCann’s parents will finally find out on Tuesday if they have won 14-YEAR libel battle against cop who suggested they were to blame for the girl’s disappearance

- A 2008 book suggested the McCanns were responsible for the disappearance

- The Portuguese officer was taken off the investigation after a 27-year career

- The McCanns fought back against the initial ruling on an appeal in Portugal

By NICK PISA FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 12:05 BST, 15 September 2022 | UPDATED: 12:25 BST, 15 September 2022



“Will finally find out on Tuesday if they have won”



British Journalism at its best. And isn’t the Daily Mail the British paper with the largest readership? 

 

About Nick Pisa, an image speaks for a million words:

https://jonworth.eu/nick-pisa-daily-mail-journalist-lazy-fkwit/

 

Maria CR - Rest in Peace

 

Very bad and sad news, Maria CR has passed away. On the 19th.

With her Portenglish she was a true warrior fighting Maddie’s and Amaral’s colours.

About Maddie she never for a single minute accepted the injustice and the disrespect the girl was subject to. And she never accepted for a minute the lies, both the blatant one as well as the ones cloaked as truth.

About Amaral, she accepted all his flaws and understood why he had many of “them”. She knew him to be human like the rest of us and also understood very quickly what he was really up against.

The world has lost a good heart and I have lost a very special friend. Someone who will leave a huge hole in my heart.

Maria and I were friends almost since the beginning of the blog. In fact, one of the many things that is creeping into my mind is not remembering our first encounter. Not that we met in person that often but during these many years we kept in contact so often and closely that very quickly it became a friendship that was much more about the case.

Until today her silence meant that she was just a phone call away. Months would go by, and then one of us would decide to meet up and it was truly like we had met the previous day and were going to meet again the day after. We both knew how much we loved each other.

Now that silence means she’s no longer there. I want to call her and I can’t. The silence has suddenly become palpable and too great to embrace.

I really wish I could write the words she deserved.

Chapter 27 – The Petty Criminal

(article from here)

 

1. Our synopsis

Textusa26 Oct 2021, 16:10:00

Our synopsis of the book:

Chapter 27 – The Petty Criminal

There seems to be someone who seems to have a memory that doesn’t betray them and that person is a self-claimed petty criminal arrested in Greece in 2015 for human trafficking, for which he was sentenced to seven years and 3 months in prison.

Chapter 26 – The Ocasional Discovery

1. Our synopsis

Textusa25 Oct 2021, 15:56:00

Continuing with our synopsis of the book:

Chapter 26 – The Ocasional Discovery

In Neuwegersleben, on January 14 2016, CB’s neighbour calls the local police because of a nauseating smell that came from a certain place of the plot where CB resided in an autocaravan. The stink was so intense that unlike the earth it did not freeze.

Chapter 25 – The Construction of a Suspect

 

1. Introduction

As our readers know, in the comments we are in the process of making a synopsis of Amaral’s book “Maddie, Basta de Mentiras!” (Maddie, Enough with the Lies!)

Gonçalo Amaral on CdM: "Enough with the lies" - comments continue III

 

In the tradition of our “comments continue” posts, having the previous  post  reached almost 200 comments, this one has been put up to allow us and our readers to continue to comment on the case.

 

Please note that the previous post only reached, at the time we are publishing this, 183 comments. The reason we are creating a new post is because we want to give greater visibility to a particular comment we will publish.

Gonçalo Amaral on CdM: "Enough with the lies" - comments continue II

 

In the tradition of our “comments continue” posts, having the original post  reached 200 comments, this one has been put up to allow us and our readers to continue to comment on the case.

Gonçalo Amaral on CdM: "Enough with the lies" - comments continue

 

In the tradition of our “comments continue” posts, having the original post  reached 200 comments, this one has been put up to allow us and our readers to continue to comment on the case.

 

We would like to refer readers to our previous post for comments on Brueckner's hearing and press articles, starting with our comment at 6 Aug 2020, 11:38:00, which we transcribed the article from the Telegraph that no longer exists.

 

 

Gonçalo Amaral on CdM: "Enough with the lies"

Article translated by Joana Morais.

"Enough with the lies": Gonçalo Amaral calls into question the statement of a McCann friend and believes that the solution to the Maddie case "may be in there"

Former inspector points out flaws in the German police investigation and defends Judiciary Police

The former inspector of the Judiciary Police (PJ), Gonçalo Amaral, said this Saturday during an interview with CMTV, that "nothing has been proven" so far in the case of the disappearance of Maddie from Praia da Luz, in May 2007, and believes that "Portugal is in a position to crack the Maddie case".

José Manuel Anes - CMTV, June 27 2020, 15:20

Our translation:

João Ferreira: In the studio I have José Manuel Anes, former president of the Criminalized Security and Terrorism Observatory [OSCOT] and also a university professor, good afternoon Professor for your presence...

José Manuel Anes: Good afternoon, João, thank you.

JF: Well, at a first moment the Professor was critical of the PJ's performance, in fact you were present in court in the process which Maddie's moved against Gonçalo Amaral and in court you even said that, that at first the PJ failed. Why?

Maddie case: “They don't seem to be very sure about concrete evidence”

Carlos Carmo, former coordinator of the Judiciary Police, analyses new developments in the investigation.

The former PJ inspector considers that the English police works with a budget that allows paying informants and that, therefore, “from time to time some suspects will appear”, but that there does not seem to be any certainty concerning tangible evidence about the German man considered as a formal suspect

Gonçalo Amaral - Jornal das 8, TVI - June 21 2020 20:00 (Part II)

 

We are publishing today the second part of Gonçalo Amaral's appearance on the "Jornal das 8", last Sunday.

Gonçalo Amaral - Jornal das 8, TVI - June 21 2020 20:00 (Part I)

 

Our translation:

José Alberto Carvalho: I now have in the “Jornal das 8”, the former inspector of the PJ, Gonçalo Amaral, the man who led the initial investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. He has not yet commented on the line of investigation launched in recent weeks by the German police. Very good evening, Gonçalo Amaral...

Gonçalo Amaral: Good evening.

Rogério Alves, Sexta às 9, June 19 2007

While we are transcribing the Gonçalo Amaral's appearance on TVI yesterday, we thought it would be important to publish first Rogério Alves' interview with Sandra Felgueiras in the programme "Sexta às 9" last Friday.

The reason we are doing this is because Amaral refers to it in his interview.