I respectfully disagree. The man was an absolute shambles. From the beginning, just the way the crime scene was treated says it all.
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No, he wasn't. The portuguese LE was stalked by the british media, were painted as lazy drunks and completely tarnished during the early stages of the investigation.
I think people in Europe keep vehicles longer than they do here in Canada. Most people I know have vehicles that are less than 5 years old. I don't know if that because salt and de-icer can really cause damage to vehicles over time.
My car is 20 years old.
Really? I thought there was witness reports of a man carrying a young girl down the street that evening. I thought she was alive at that point---if it was her....
Which really doesn't mean that the child left the home alive. A man can carry a dead child.
Former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amoral says Madeleine McCann suspect is in German prison
Goncalo Amaral stated in November 2019 that a German pedophile was suspected in the case. He said the man had been cleared as a suspect in 2008, but was later found to have committed other sex crimes. I wonder whether the photos of the cars and house were taken in 2007/2008?
In my opinion, those pictures aren't recent. I believe he was investigated at some point, much earlier than 2017. The car seems to be in some sort of "storage" facility.
Now that Amaral believes that it was the suspect in question I wonder if he regrets blaming the parents, MI5 and the UK government for a cover-up and writing a book that will be filed under fiction.
He did his job. If he and the rest of his team didn't look at the parents, everyone would be going crazy and accusing him of being incompetent. It would make a lot of sense if the parents did, in fact, cause Madeleine's death. To be fair, the evidence pointed to them. Their behaviour also pointed to them. He did his job, and so did the rest of the portuguese LE team.
Let’s just see if it turns out to be the German suspect after all. It’s not just Amaral that suspected Kate and Gerry, so did lots of people. To be brutally honest with you I believe if they were not professional people with good social links they would of had the other 2 children removed from their care after leaving poor Madaleine to fend for herself.
Amaral never had any sort of vendetta against Kate and Gerry, people love to think he was this terrible monster that was stalking the McCann's, when in fact, he was just trying to help them find their child. The case pointed to them, and, in my opinion, still does.
Sounds like they’re begging for the person who alibi’d him to change their story in order look like they’re doing something that justifies more cash grabs. Meh.
Yep, I would think that, if they had evidence that proved without a doubt that he was involved in any way, he would've charged him already. This move seems like they want people to come out of God knows where and pin it on him. They have to have something significant on him, but it's obviously not enough.
Miya are you German? If so can you explain how car registration works? I don’t understand the significance of the suspect changing the car registration. Obviously the date he did it is very interesting but I am curious how it would help him. I assume it’s done online?
Changing the car registration means that he car wouldn't legally be his anymore. He changed the registration, the car was not under his name anymore. It was a stupid move because it makes him even more suspicious.
Yeah, why do you even have to register a car, if I buy new shoes, I don't have to register them either.
I'm sorry, what? Is your car not registered under your name? That's your car... If you sell your car to a friend, for example, are you not going to go to the whole process of changing the name of the owner? I'm so confused by your post lol.
Yes, that was a bad choice. But that is not true at all. We know about it because of what happened after they were left alone. Parents who make a bad choice and nothing bad comes of it don't make the news. Kidnappings and murders do. People always seem so eager to twist everything to make the parents the biggest bad guys here, why not place that on the person who took advantage of their bad choice and actually hurt the child?
It was not a "bad choice". It was pure neglect, I'm sorry if this sounds cruel but they put their children in a dangerous position. Sure, nobody has any business kidnapping a child but God, parents have to protect their children and that means that leaving three toddlers alone on a resort in a foreign country is nothing but neglect.
I lived on a small street that had block parties in the summer. People would sit outside with their drinks, playing music and sharing potluck food. After dark parents would put their kids to bed and go back and check on them occassionally. Nothing ever happened to any of those kids. Looking back in retrospect it was pretty foolish because outcomes like what happened to MM could have happened.
The McCann's didn't leave their three children alone in their home, on a small street, on a familiar place though. They left three babies alone in a resort, full of strangers coming and going in a foreign country.
I’ll be honest, i feel much more confident having the German police investigate this as opposed to the Portuguese police or even the Met to be honest. We’re in good hands lol.
I find this post extremely distasteful. These comments perpetuate the narrative that the portuguese are nothing but lazy bums that do nothing but spend money that they don't have, that love to eat and drink and that don't work. These observations should be made in a more tasteful, careful way. You probably don't mean it like that, but it is what it is.
The Portuguese police, media, and tourist board did not want there to be a child abductor lurking in one of their main holiday resorts; it was preferable for them to blame the parents.
I'm not saying this is right or wrong, but it happens all over the world. I've followed many 'tourist abroad' cases on here and often think the official narrative is biased.
That's is 100% false. Algarve is not only an "holiday" spot, many, many, many foreign people move to Algarve to work, raise their children or simply enjoy their retirement. This has been Algarve's reality for decades and still is. Algarve is also the main holiday spot for the portuguese and will always be. The portuguese tourism has been booming for years, and that boom happened after Madeleine's disappearance. The whole country is a big tourist spot in Europe and the World. What happened to Madeleine is a tragedy, but it wasn't Portugal or the portuguese's fault, it didn't affect the tourism either. Did it affect the resort? Yes, but not the tourism in general. People still came and still come, not only during the Summer, but all year. This assumption is not true at all.
