christine2448
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Forgive my ignorance, I have no law or LE experience, but is this fully legal? It smells of Jon-Benet to me and the way LE messed EVERYTHING up.Gerry and Kate McCann will finally be told what evidence police have against them next month, Portugal's most senior law officer revealed yesterday.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027137/McCanns-finally-evidence-Madeleine-police-them.html
Forgive my ignorance, I have no law or LE experience, but is this fully legal? It smells of Jon-Benet to me and the way LE messed EVERYTHING up.
Well, basically, the statute of limitations has run out. In Portugal a "suspect" is given an "arguido" status that usually lasts for a specific period of time. That time can be extended (has been once already) and is now set to come to an end. The LE needs to bring charges or archive the case. If archived, the files are then opened to anyone, including the McCanns. Charges can still be brought at a later date if new evidence comes to light. That is a very basic (even crude) explanation.....
I agree that showing the files to the world will give the McCanns (and their high-priced lawyers) an advantage and a blueprint for any defense they may need to present. HOWEVER, the chance of charges being brought for neglect (at least), crimes of murder, exposure (to risk of serious harm) abandonment and concealment of Madeleine's corpse are all still possible. I do find the latest silence (and I mean SILENCE) from the Portuguese authorities to be troubling. I can't figure out what the hang-up is.
I can only hope that LE in Portugal does a better job of investigating this case than LE in Colorado did. Only time will tell.
So do you think this means the case is going to be archived Colomon? How disappointing if this is the case, I hope not!
Snagged from 3A's.....
(http://www.the3arguidos.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15363)
How's this for story placement???
From the article: "Detectives also found a note that appeared to list ways of disposing a body. It read:"1) By sea 2) Acid 3) Landfill 4) Burning."
I don't know B....I can't understand why no action yet. I go back and forth about the final outcome. I still pray that evil does not win. Maddie deserves so much better than this circus. All my digits are crossed.
Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1082&page=11 Post #150 (with permission....Thanks Rainbow!!)
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German Press Agency: Mrs. McCann, if such a missing child alert system had been in place when your daughter disappeared, in what way do you feel it could have helped?
Kate: I mean, its very difficult to answer that question, to say whether it would have helped to recover Madeleine definitely or not. I believe it would have given us a greater chance. I think the awareness early on in the critical hours would have been greater and hence I think there would have been more help from the public at that crucial time and potentially Madeleine may have been retrieved. We will never know. But it is a possibility. Yes.
Another Portuguese reporter: Mrs. McCann, you said that if the system had existed it would have been easier to have found Madeleine within the first few hours.
It was difficult in the first few hours because Madeleine was alone in the house. Dont you think that this was perhaps abandonment?
Kate: I think perhaps you are avoiding the issue to be honest. Madeleine was not alone for a few hours and I didnt say it would have been easier I just think our chances would have been greater of Madeleine being recovered.
I think the issue here is that a child has been abducted and there is a criminal out there, who is still out there.
I think we need to concentrate on the real issue here. It doesnt help by going over issues that you have just raised.
Portuguese Reporter again: You didnt answer the first question, which was, it could be that the Portuguese police will take you up for abandonment or negligence which is something that comes that under the Portuguese criminal code.
Gerry: You know, we didnt abandon or neglect Madeleine. As Kate has already said, somebody went into an apartment and stole a child. Thats where the focus is.
You are going over old ground. Its really quite boring and we want people to focus on issues which we think will make a difference. The amber alert would make a difference. It can be a deterrent. It can help to find a missing child.
We need cross-border cooperation.
Kate: Also, nothing has changed in the last 14 months. I am not really, you know, sure why we are talking about this now because nothing has changed on that issue in the last 14 months.
Clarence: Kate and Gerry are not accused of any crime whatsoever. Neither is there any suggestion that any charges are being considered.
Colomom's transcript said:The remarks were considered by several Members of European Parliament a diplomatic answer to the McCann strong critics about the European Parliament project, published in Gerry's blog on 13 June. The parents of Madeleine McCann went to Strasbourg today, trying to get the support of more 182 MEPs, for a written declaration that appeals for a system similar to the American Amber alert to be set up in EU, but they only managed to get 15 more signatures and are far from the 393 needed.
Down yesterday and up today....
http://www.the3arguidos.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15415
ellibean has been posting for ages and has not been known to be a wind-up merchant (hoaxer).
I wish I had some more fingers or toes to cross.