gord,
I know you asked someone else this question and I know there is a lot of contradictory stuff in the press, but all of us must choose what we want to believe and what we don't want to believe. You state with such certainty that the apartment was not taped off until the next day. Colomom cited a Portuguese link:
in Diario de Noticias:
http://tinyurl.com/22lreg
Copied from:
http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com... 86581&page=2 post #23 (my bolding)
in it it says "As DN could find out, right after Gerard and Kate McCann detected the disappearance of Madeleine, around 9.30 pm,
over 20 persons entered the room, between friends and family who were there on vacation with the couple and their children, and also many tourists and resort employees, who, out of natural worry and anxiety, searched everywhere for the british child, rummaging beds, cupboards and other furniture, opening and closing doors and windows.
Although the appartment was immediately sealed that night by the authorities, this situation ended up eliminating possible traces of the passage of the person who took the british girl from the appartment."
Other sources that are linked in the media links at WS talk about these 20 people being there before police arrived.
Now, According to Jane Tanner (my bolding):
http://www.geocities.com/hallsofmirrors/SOL.html
Sol July 11th
Jane Tanner is one of the key witnesses of the process, given the fact that she claims to have seen a man carrying a child, during one of her trips to the apartments to check on the children.
The english woman states she saw a man aged 35-40, with dark hair, wearing
beige trousers, a
dark jacket and
classic black shoes, carrying a girl, who was wearing a pyjama and was barefoot.
and Gerry McCann (my bolding)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...tml?in_article_id=483026&in_page_id=1811&ct=5
Gerry McCann says he is convinced that, when he checked on Madeleine at 9.05pm on the evening she disappeared, the abductor was somewhere inside the ground-floor flat. He thinks that the intruder - who would have entered the flat through
an unlocked patio door - would have pounced almost immediately after he left.It would have taken seconds to scoop up the little girl and escape through a
bedroom window."
This person with beige trousers and a dark jacket would have left the apartment through a window carrying a child. Besides being able to balance her without awakening her and not falling over as he passes through a window,how could he have left
no beige or dark fibers on that windowsill?? :snooty:
You would have to believe that one of those 20 people wiped the windowsill off leaving no fiber trace or Jane is wrong or Gerry is wrong.Someone is wrong. None of us
know who is wrong at this point.Isn't that why we continue to discuss and present our views?