DIÁRIO DE NOTÍCIAS - 13/08/2007
FRIENDS OF THE MCCANNS WILL BE CALLED BACK IN FEW DAYS FOR INQUIRY
The PJ is just waiting for the results of the blood analysis.
The PJ keeps on concentring on the the circle of the MCCANNS´friends, convinced that the key of the mystery of Madeleine´s disappearance on the 3rd may night lies within the group holidaying in Praia da Luz. These people, being currently just witnesses in the case, will be interrogated again by the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ of Portimão only after the results of the analysis of the blood found in the apartment of the Ocean Club resort being known, which is expected for this week.
The expectation is huge, as, according to a poll achieved by YouGov for the Synday Times and published yesterday, more than 70 % of the British people condemn the McCanns for having let Madeleine alone in the bedroom on the night of her disappearance. Only 23 % of the questioned answered they were unlucky with the abduction of the child.
In the meantime, sources close to the investigation admit that, in the place where two blood traces have been found, the British dogs "have traced a dead body scent". On the other side, according to the same sources, Madeleine´s body has not be burried, since the person who wanted to hide it would not have had the adequate equipment.
Furthermore, the one who would want to hide the body would not burry it in that place, since the sandbanks are not so deep and the body would be quickly discovered. Thus, there is an increasing hypothesis that the body has been thrown into the sea in a garbage bag with stones, so as to remain in the bottom of the sea.
In the case it would be catched in some fishermen nets would permit to find it sooner or later. Or, in another hipothesis, the body could have been hidden in the middle of some caves, as it was admitted by the harbour police 3 days after Madeleine´s disappearance, when the abduction theory was admitted by the Pj.
The investigators have now an idea of what happened "at the beginning and at the end", but knowing "how and why" Madeleine died is still to be discovered. Accident or murder, possibly as a consequence of an act of agression, namely a slap ? "Everything is possible" confined the source to say. Surely this case "will not be a new Joana´s case", the child who vanished 3 years ago in the village of Figueira, concluding to her murder by both mother and uncle, even if the body has never been found.
Besides, the strong pressures of the British government towards the Portuguese one are bothering the investigators, who are working day and night to discover where Maddie is. The British policemen acting on the ground are considered as "cordial and very colaborating ones", especially regarding the quick obtention of informations from the UK on the McCanns and family and friends. The presence of the British policemen allowed "avoiding burocracy and lost of time" necessary for formally requesting informations from the Uk.
Nevertheless, according to the informations obtained by the DN just after Madeleine´s disappearance, the Pj would not have accepted the help of the British authorities. It was so later on they admitted they could give a lot of help.
