in Correio da Manha this morning:
http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=266651&idselect=10&idCanal=10&p=200
Copied from:
http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=41 Post #611
Investigation: 'We know when they come and what they do here'
PJ watches detectives
The Policia Judiciaria knows when the Spanish private detectives that were hired by the McCanns are in Portugal. "We know when they come and what they do here", a source close to the investigation assured CM, adding that "they are allowed to be in Portugal as long as they don't interfere with the investigation". The men from Spanish agency Metodo3 can "talk to neighbours, or to whomever they want, as long as they don't make a formal investigation", a source from the Public Ministery has told CM. "But if they speak, for example, with a witness that is part of the process or if they gain access to a piece of the process, they are comitting a crime that may be obstruction of justice", the source explained.
The information that the detectives have collected so far are seen as barely credible by the Judiciaria, anyway. "They look like a 'pescadinha' [small fish] with its tail in its mouth", a source connected to the investigation said, explaining that the Spanish "only walk over places that have been mentioned already".
The most recent suspicion that was raised by the detectives from Metodo3 points to Michaela Walczuk, allegedly Robert Murat's girlfriend, and Luis Antonio, Michaela's husband. To CM, the Judiciaria has devalued that suspicion entirely.
"On the day they say she was seen, Michaela was probably in Lagos, because at that time, her car, a Skoda van, was being repaired because of a mechanical problem", Francisco Pagarete, the lawyer of Robert Murat and a friend to Michaela Walczuk, said.
"That is a piece of data that the Judiciaria knows itself", Pagarete continues, referring that "she cannot remember exactly what she did on that day because the agenda where she wrote down her everyday activities on a daily basis, is among the objects that were apprehended by the PJ and which have not been returned yet".
When Robert Murat was made an arguido, in May, Michaela and her husband, Luis Antonio, were also interrogated and, although they were not made arguidos, they saw some of their personal objects being apprehended.
Concerning the private analyses that were made on the couple's behalf, on the Renault Scenic (as reported by CM yesterday), the Judiciaria doesn't think they question the PJ itself. "If those analyses question something, it's the Birmingham lab and the results that they obtained", a source at the PJ said with irony; "and we are talking about one of the best and most reputable forensic analyses lab in the world".
The analyses that were made by request from Kate and Gerry McCann, whose results were made public yesterday by a source close to the McCanns, allegedly failed to detect any clues to the presence of Madeleine inside the Renault Scenic, contrary to what happened with the results that were performed in Birmingham.
The same source said that tests had been performed on the couple's twin children, in order to prove that no drugs had been given to the children to make them sleep. Also according to this source, the McCanns were preparing evidence to show that the English dogs' work - which detected a cadaver odour inside the vehicle and in the apartment - is not 100% infallible.
All these steps seem to indicate that Kate and Gerry McCann are already preparing, at this moment, their defense in court, if they come to trial because of the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, on May 3.