From the DIARIO DE NOTÍCIAS - 07/08/2007
PJ HAS BEEN CONVINCED FOR ONE MONTH MADDIE WAS KILLED
José Manuel Oliveira
The PJ has been convinced since already one month that Madeleine McCann was killed on the 3rd May night in the apartment of the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, having thus definitely put apart the abductio thesis. On the other side, the suspicions over the Maddie´s parents since her disappearance are now becoming more specific.
A source pointed out that either the portuguese police or the british one have been checking from day one the McCanns behaviour, allowing them to move freely, not only while staying in the Algarve but also on their trips to foreign countries where they have been to launch their campaign to find Madeleine.
The certainty that Madeleine died, by homicide or negligence, is based on a new clue, which consequently originated new searches by the PJ in Praia da Luz during the last two weeks and the help of the british police with their dogs especially trained for detecting dead bodies.
Since the beginning, the PJ has been convinced that the "key of the enigma" lies within the area, and has achieved new clues investigation as well as unobtrusive questioning to local people, crossing the informations, especially in the Ocean Club, with the following request to the british police to go back to the apartment where Madeleine vanished.
On the other side, according to informations obtained by the Diario de Notícias, the British child´s mother, Kate McCann, as soon as she discovered the child had vanished, would have returned back to the restaurant where she was dining together with her husband and friends, screaming "They´ve taken her". Later on, a turist who was holidaying in an apartment next to the McCanns´one would have listened to the mother screaming in a way of self-criticizing : "We failed". In the course of the investigations achieved on the first days by the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ of Portimão next to the child´s parents, family members and friends, some contradictory versions of the facts would have been detected, originating increasing uncercainties regarding the abudction thesis admitted by the inspectors.
The inspectors are now concentrating their attention on the family and friends circle. According to the same source, some of the McCanns´friends holidaying with them in Praia da Luz are being checked by the British police and will be called back to Portugal for new examinations by the PJ.
"New" suspect
In the meantime, the PJ has revealed yesterday the existence of a new suspect in the case : a man in his 40ies, of about 1.70/1.75 m tall, dark-skinned. He would be of african origin and an english citizen. The description is similar to the first identikit realised by the PJ at the beginning of the investigation, based on the testimonies of local people who saw a man, on the 3rd May night, carrying a sleepy child, trying to avoid people walking in that place, near the resort.
The assumption put now forward is that this man would have been seen together with R. Murat just after Maddie´s disappearance, next to the media and the apartment.
But, according to testimonies, he would have been seen in the resort before the disappearance of the child, near to the McCanns´family. He has been watched over by the PJ, who is controlling his movements.
