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[ThoughtFox]

So the McCanns want to see the footage from that restaurant in France.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1306401,00.html?f=rss

The BBC also has an interesting article on Madeleine's eye defect:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7256513.stm

. . . A coloboma occurs when the eye fails to develop fully while the baby is in the womb. It leaves part of the structure missing, creating a gap.

"Keyhole"

Colobomas can occur in several parts of the eye - the word itself means an absence or defect of tissue. When a coloboma is in the iris - like Madeleine's - it can give the appearance of a keyhole. In very rare cases a person can get one in each eye.

"They're pretty uncommon," says Iain Anderson, chairman of the Eyecare Trust. "In my patient base of 5,000 just one person has one. It is a significant distinguishing feature in identifying someone."

It's not known why colobomas occur but there appears to be a strong hereditary factor.

 

[ThoughtFox]

A sighting in Dorset, UK!

http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.2069066.0.police_play_down_madeleine_sighting.php

DORSET Police are playing down an alleged sighting of missing Madeleine McCann in the county. Alan Cameron, a retired civil servant, claims the toddler turned up at his house in Stratton, three miles north-west of Dorchester.

Sunday newspapers reported the child matching Madeleine's description arrived in the care of a Portuguese couple, who had come to buy some garden furniture advertised locally.

...Mr Cameron, 66, said he became suspicious when he saw a girl sitting in the couple's car.

He told the Sunday Express: "Straight away the couple struck me as odd. The woman said she was Italian but they were speaking fluent Portuguese. The man told me they ran a language centre in Weymouth but then the woman hit him and told him to be quiet."

Mr Cameron, a former clerk with the Director of Public Prosecutions, said the girl spoke in English and appeared distressed as he let her use his bathroom.

He said: "The woman grabbed her and scooped her under her arm.

 

[ThoughtFox]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topsto...cann-unearths-child-s-remains-89520-20331149/

Spaniel used in the hunt for Madeleine McCann unearths child's remains

A sniffer dog has pinpointed SIX more places where bodies may be buried at the ex-children's home where a youngster's bones were unearthed.

The child's remains were found by a spaniel, used in the hunt for Madeleine McCann, under inches of concrete on Saturday.

Now police will dig up other areas at Haut de la Garenne, Jersey.

 

[colomom]

PJ has got a OK regarding the rogatory letters

During the next week an inspector from the English Police is expected to show in Algarve, he will reunite with the PJ in order to define all the procedures that should be taken so the rogatory letters can be fulfilled. The meeting was arranjed after the Brisitsh authorities had accepted the PJ's request to conduct diligencies in the Bristish soil. After everything is arranjed, the PJ's inpectors will leave to Great Britain where they will follow all the diligencies.

As CM [Correio da Manhã] has already said, in a first phase the PJ will want to reinterview Jane Tanner, Russel O' Brien and David Payne, three of the friends who spend the holidays with the McCanns. Only after that it will be decided whether Kate and Gerry will be questioned again.


http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=279728&idselect=9&idCanal=9&p=200

 

[colomom]

Posted by Li on the 3A's:

...............

There are two main articles in this edition.
The first one is the taxi driver story.
The second one is about the rogatory letter and it says that the letter is already with the Leicester police and that within ten days a team of the PJ will travel to England to monitor the interrogations that will be made by the Leicester police. The first persons to be questioned will be Jane Tanner, David Payne and Russel O'Brien.

And then there is a little one concerning the reaction of Clarence Mitchell to the taxi driver story.

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCanns reacted astonished to the declarations of the taxi driver. "The declarations of Mr. Castela are fake. They are ludicrous. He can only be mistaken when he says that at that time he transported Kate and Madeleine with three men", he said underlining the fact that there are several independent witnesses that put Madeleine's parents in a totally different place. How is that possible if at 20,35 several witnesses say that Kate and Gerry were seated at the Tapas restaurant?", he questioned. Clarence doubts of the intentions of the taxi driver. "I am astonished that only now, ten months after, he talks about this. These are declarations that only cause pain to Kate and Gerry", he said, saying that the McCann's daughter has no facial expression. "The only sign to report is the one she has in the eye".
http://24horasnewspaper.com/total.php?numero=2778&link=23
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Meaning of the facial expressions. The taxi driver claims that Madeleine had a twitch in her chin.

 

[colomom]

in Correio da Manha this morning:

http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=280849&idselect=21&idCanal=21&p=200

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1204837473&page=8 post #107

Madeleine: English policeman in Portugal

An inspector from the English police was in Portugal this week, to define how the new questionings will be carried out, the British press revealed yesterday.

Superintendent Stuart Prior arrived on Tuesday and returned to the United Kingdom yesterday. The date on which the PJ's inspectors will go to England to takepart in the interrogations has not been decided yet.

 

[colomom]

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Meanwhile, another book was launched in Portugal today. It is titled "Maddie, Joana and the Criminal Investigation", and it was written by criminologist Barra da Costa, he who publicly stated that the McCanns were swingers.

Two articles in PT newspapers report about the book.

Diario de Noticias criticises the book rather heavily, reporting that it focuses on conspiracy theories - the author defends that the 'Maddies' have to disappear to feed the fear and the paranoia that will ultimately lead to everyone being inserted a chip. DN further states that the book also heavily criticises the PJ, which the author served for 30 years, and which seems to have lost its qualities only after Mr Barra da Costa left the force. All in all, the book does not get a good review from DN, which also adds that the author often engages in contraditions and fails to reach any sort of conclusion to his ramblings.

http://dn.sapo.pt/2008/03/07/sociedade/o_desaparecimento_maddie_teoria_cons.html

24Horas dedicates 2 pages to the issue, including an interview with the author. Mr Barra da Costa, who was a chief inspector with the PJ, heavily criticises the police force for 'concentrating on proving that the McCanns are guilty', but at the same time offers his opinion that the couple should have been put into preventive custody right at the start of the investigation, for negligence. He also states that the kidnapper was English, because he 'had to be able to talk to her, and he knew her, because those two factors would have helped to make an exit from the apartment'.

http://24horasnewspaper.com/total.php?numero=2785&link=12
http://24horasnewspaper.com/total.php?numero=2785&link=13

 

[colomom]

24Horas also reports that the family of Mari Luz have received a phone call asking for a ransom of 2 million euros for the recovery of their daughter. The family says they can only raise 300.000 euros if they sell everything they have; they have apparently told 24H that they suspect one of their neighbours. Yesterday, the parents of Mari Luz were received in Faro, where posters were placed all over the city, and a public gathering of solidarity is being planned for the 5th of April.

http://24horasnewspaper.com/total.php?numero=2785&link=08

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[colomom]

http://www.portugaldiario.iol.pt/noticia.php?id=925112&div_id=291

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(Google translation)

Dozens of people, among friends of McCann, tourists and former officials of the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz, will be surveyed over the next few days in England.

According to information collected by PortugalDiário, the investigation was requested by the Portuguese authorities through letters rogatory and will be met by British police over the coming weeks.

Apart from interrogations, which should not include the couple McCann, it will still be complied with the search warrant, in order, inter alia, to the seizure of the diary of Kate McCann, the mother of the minor disappeared, May 3 last year, described the relationship with their children.

Maddie: Portuguese and English police met
Parents of Maddie gratified by Portuguese

The steps will be met by British authorities but count with the presence of Portuguese researchers.

"Testimonials divergent and collection of new information"

The eight friends of Kate and Gerry, who passed vacation in Praia da Luz, last May, and other British tourists who were, a pair of former officials of the venture will be reporting on steps aimed essentially determine possible different testimonies and gather new information.

Also according to information collected by PortugalDiário, the process simply no longer be covered by the secrecy of justice, after the full implementation of the investigation.

It is recalled that at the beginning of the year, the prosecutor asked the investigating judge, and this granted, the extension of the secrecy of justice for a further three months. The prosecutor relied on the exceptional complexity of the case.

Abduction, murder and concealment of corpse

Under the law, after eight months on the formation of the first defendant in the case, the Portuguese-British Robert Murata (May 14), the prosecutor should file the case or inferred accusation. Do not having done until January 14, the prosecutor had to request the extension of the period for another three months.

This request of the prosecutor to prohibit the access of parties and the public to the proceeding may be postponed for a maximum period of three months, renewable once by [particularly in crimes against the life and liberty of the people], for a period objectively indispensable the conclusion of the investigation.

It should be noted that throughout the process the thesis of abduction and murder and subsequent concealment of corpses have been addressed.

Besides Murat, also parents of Maddie, Kate and Gerry, consisted defendants in September, for suspected involvement in the disappearance of the minor.

Madeleine McCann, four years old, disappeared May 3 to an apartment in a resort in Praia da Luz, while parents jantavam a restaurant, a few metres away.

 

[colomom]

http://portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=25201

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Search for Madeleine to restart at dam

DIVING OPERATIONS to search for Madeleine McCann’s body in the Arade dam, near Silves, will restart on Monday, March 10.

The operation is being financially supported by Sociedade Portuguesa de Engenharia e Construção, Lda (SPEC), the Portuguese engineering and construction society.

SPEC considered the leads received by the Madeira-based lawyer, Marcos Aragão Pereira, credible and the initiative “a noble act in the defence of children”.

Mr Aragão, who commissioned the first phase of the dam searches in January and February, is also organising next week’s operation.

He told The Resident: “SPEC’s contact was given to me by a close friend from Portimão.”

The diving team will this time consist of seven divers, five from Lagos and two from Portimão. Search operations will again be directed by Martin Falkous, from Dive Time, the diving company based in Lagos that was also involved in the first phase of the Arade dam searches.


Divers searching for Madeleine’s body in the Arade dam in January. Photo: SOLARPIX

The search will start near the dam’s control tower and divers will be widening their search of the Arade lake from the water tower in the direction of the flood gate.

The dam’s maximum depth is 46 metres and on May 3, when Madeleine went missing, it had a depth of 40 metres, based on Mr Aragão’s official records.

The reservoir is currently 24 to 26 metres deep at its deepest point, as a result of several water discharges and a dry winter. Divers believe the water level will help the search operations.

Marcos Aragão said: “The Madeleine Fund is not supporting the diving operation because it has limited resources and, as the family believes Madeleine is alive, they will keep on supporting leads that may take them to their living daughter.”

Metodo 3, the Barcelona-based private investigation company hired by the McCanns, is aware of the operation in the Arade dam “as it was aware of the one held in January”, Mr Aragão told The Resident.

“We cross check information with them. The tip-off I received has been confirmed with information from Metodo 3.”

He gave the example of a “truck driver who, on May 5, witnessed a woman in Silves transferring a child wrapped up in a blanket from her car to another vehicle driven by a man showing an aggressive behaviour.”

Mr Aragão refused to reveal further details on the leads he is pursuing, explaining that “the information will be revealed in due time as it is not safe to release it at this moment.”

As in previous instances, the police teams investigating the Madeleine McCann case were informed about next week’s search operation, however, “the police have not shown much interest”, said Marcos Aragão.

 

[colomom]

http://portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=25209

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Divers resume search for Madeleine

DIVERS RESUMED a search of the waters at the Arade Dam today (Monday) in a private operation commissioned by the Madeira-based lawyer Marcos Aragão Pereira.

The operation started shortly after 10am near the dam’s level control tower as the information obtained Mr Aragão points strongly to that area of the lake.

The search is being directed by Martin Falkous, who has five divers from Dive Time, based in Lagos, plus two from the Portimão Bombeiros who have joined the operation in their own time.

They have been trained in searching for bodies and were invited to participate by José Paias, who is sponsoring the operations.

Martin Falkous said that they were looking for a body or body parts. If anything is found, the divers have been told not to bring it to surface but instead mark the spot with buoys for another boat to be called to carry out recovery.

Visibility in the water is very poor and the divers are using touch and feel in their search. With mud being between one and two metres deep at the bottom of the water, the colour changed from a dark green to light brown within seconds of the divers beginning the search.

Because of these conditions, Martin Falkous has instructed the divers to bring up to the surface any strange objects, or objects out of the ordinary, that they find to be identified.

When divers arrived at the dam this morning, Marcos Aragão Pereira was already there with his assistant Telma Fernandes, and José Paias, one of the partners of SPEC, Lda, an engineering company based in Portimão which is sponsoring 50 per cent of the cost of the operation.

A few minutes later, Heldér Braz, who is in charge of the dam’s monitoring and control system, joined the group as Marcos Aragão Pereira asked INAG, the national water agency which controls all the dams in the country, to allow the divers to go inside the water tower tubs.

This followed the first phase of searches, held in late January and February, when divers found an entrance covered by a metal grate and could not search inside the water tubes leading to the tower.

The system is used to water the fields located in the south side of the dam and the last time they were accessible was in 1998, when the dam was emptied.

The search is expected to continue until the end of the week and Marcos Aragão Pereira has said that if Madeleine McCann’s body is found in the Arade dam, he will reveal all the information related to the tip-off that has led to the search.

 

[colomom]

Translated: http://www.clicabrasilia.com.br/portal/noticia.php?IdNoticia=49881

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.co...eral&action=display&thread=1205266339&page=23 post #342


Lawyer seeks Madeleine in lake near the home of beach,
His parents

12/03/2008 - 16:59:44


The lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia, which seeks with a team of
Diver's body, Madeleine McCann in the bottom of a lake,
Said today it is convinced that the remains are
There, but has admitted it will be difficult to find them.

The Portuguese lawyer tries to find for months for own account
British and the girl believes that the chances of it is
Dead and his body was thrown in the dam of Arade are
99%. The site in question is 40 km from the apartment
Praia de Luz, in the south of Portugal, where he was with his parents.

Aragao Correia acknowledges, however, that the possibilities of
Find the remains of the girl are not very large,
In view of the existence of currents in the reservoir and
Quality of water, it is very cloudy.

All tracks that have, according to him, led to believe that
Body of the girl must be at the reservoir, and before the
Difficulty of the search, concentrated its task in areas where there
More likely to find.

During the immersions made in the last hours, was found
A rock tied with a rope, which could, in his opinion,
Have been used to sink the corpse of the girl.

According to the lawyer, during the searches, initiated in
Monday, met other pieces of rope and
Half of socket girl manufactured by a fabric used in
Northern Europe, by size, could belong to the girl.

The Portuguese lawyer who decided to open the search after receiving
"Clues" about the case three days after the disappearance of
Madeleine, on May 3, 2007, reported that the evidence that
He has coincide with the Spanish Agency of detectives
Metodo3, hired by the parents of the minor.

Aragao Correia met today with members of this agency
Detectives and handed the clues found in the reservoir for
They are held as necessary expertise.

In their statements to EFE, the lawyer regretted the lack of
Police Portuguese interests of the slopes.

To conduct the search, Aragao Correia account with the help of
Members of a school of submarine, which works in the vicinity
The place, and the body of the Fire Brigade Volunteers of the settlement of
Portimão specialists in the recovery of corpses in the waters
Deep.

"There is no visibility, so it is virtually
Impossible conduct the search with speed. Divers have
To go apalpando the fund and when some object found
Suspect take to the surface to see what is ", stated.

This is the second occasion on which the Portuguese lawyer demand
Madeleine this lake, where they tried, without success, to find
Remains of the British girl in June last year, five
Weeks after the disappearance of Madeleine.

The smaller the room in which disappeared slept with his two
Twin brothers, in two years, while his parents, Kate and Gerry
McCann, jantavam at a restaurant nearby.

Parents say that the girl was seqüestrada, but the Portuguese Police
Those considered suspected of complicity in the death accidental and
Concealment of the body and the couple left Portugal in September
Past.
AF

 

[colomom]

in Jornal de Noticias this morning:

http://jn.sapo.pt/2008/03/14/policia_e_tribunais/pj_desvaloriza_advogado_procura_madd.html

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.co...eral&action=display&thread=1205390152&page=17 post #252

PJ dismisses lawyer who searches for Maddie

"If we find the body of little Madeleine, we will become part of the history of humankind". This is one of the sentences that a lawyer from Madeira uses to conquer sponsors for the private searches that he is carrying out in the Arade dam, in Silves. Marcos Aragão Correia asks for 5 thousand euros, and in return, he promises to publicise the name of the company to all the Portuguese and foreign media that cover the searches.

"The exclusive sponsor benefits from huge, unique publicity", the lawyer guarantees, defending that this is "a wonderful opportunity to put our christianism into action, by helping these parents and this little girl". One of the firms that were contacted was a local newspaper in Portimão, which didn't even reply to the email. The invitation was finally accepted by a construction firm.

The money allowed the lawyer to pay the diving team that had already been at the dam in January. Operations had been suspended after only four days, for lack of funding. In the email that he sends to companies, the lawyer presents himself as "the son of one of the major personalities of insular and national culture" and guarantees he has "sponsored the defense of several prominent cases", although he does not name a single example. He explains that on May 6 (three days after Madeleine disappeared) he received leads that the child had been abducted, raped and murdered, and her body had been thrown into a lake in the Algarve, which he himself concluded, "after thorough investigations" to be the Arade reservoir. JN knows that he contacted the police. "What he said was very vague and he never revealed his source, although we insisted on it several times. It was later discovered that his source was a medium, meaning it was not minimally credible", said a source that is connected to the investigation.

During the seraches, ropes, a sock and a rock were found. Correia considers that they indicate the "presence of the body". He delivered them to the Spanish detective agency Método 3, which was hired by the McCann couple.

 

[colomom]

There are some very early reports in the Portuguese press within the past few hours that there has been a find at the dam/lake. A rough translation follows.

http://www.portugaldiario.iol.pt/noticia.php?id=928079

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1205511819&page=7 post #94

Thanks Summer:


Updated at 17h24

A few minutes passed from 15 hours when the team of
Divers hired by Correia found a lawyer Aragon
Bag with "bones", covered in mud and bottom of the dam do Arade,
Revealed the PortugalDiário Telma Fernandes, assistant to the
Causídico.

"We do not know whether they are human or any animal," says Telma
Fernandes. "Bones are small and only slightly opened the bag to
See its contents. When saw what was called the
Mexemos authorities and not more, "guarantor.

"Neither is to see that color is the bag, because it is completely
Covered with mud. It was tied with ropes with, "adds the
Assistant to the attorney Madeira.

He not up for Maddie
Maddie: tens to hear in England

The GNR and the Judiciary Police are already on the site and created a
Small perimeter security. "Along the bag only are the
Authorities and some divers ", reported the Telma Fernandes
PortugalDiário. "All other people are beyond the
Perimeter. How, for example, the detectives of the agency Spanish
Métode 3.

Searching for the second time

Marcos Aragon Correia is a lawyer and, for the second time in a few
Months, is the sponsor with support from a company Algarve, searches
Dam in the Arade, in Silves. It is there that believe has
"Largado been" the body of Madeleine McCann, a few days after
Its disappearance.

The search again Monday and were found
Several foreign objects. "Several ropes, a plastic and half
The child with four or five years, "said the PortugalDiário
Telma Fernandes. "But meanwhile, this material has followed to
Barcelona which will be analysed.

It is recalled that last December the lawyer had already hired
A team of divers and was four days on the spot. In this
Time, "was found a rope from five meters", which was
Delivered to the GNR of Lagos, recalls Telma. "We believe that after
Has been taken to the Judicial Police. But the fact is that never
Nobody told us anything about it. " So they decided, this
Instead, "does not deliver anything without analyzing first of form
Particular.

However, the "finding" of this Friday left no alternative to
Lawyer and the team of searches: "We had to draw the
Authorities. The bag was found near Tower "to capture,
Very close to the place you collected the other objects that
Week ', ends Telma Fernandes

 

[colomom]

From: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.co...eral&action=display&thread=1205511819&page=21 post #300

Correio da Manhã: Maddie: Bones are of animal

2008-03-14 - 20:02:00
http://www.correiomanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=281721&idselect=21&idCanal=21&p=200

The bones found this Friday in the dam of the Arade, near to Silves, Algarve, are in a first analysis from an animal.

The Judiciary Police (PJ) advanced that the bones cannot be human given its dimensions and characteristics.

The bones were found by divers inside a bag, who alerted the GNR, which in its turn warned the PJ.

In a first phase, the authorities suspected that the bones could belong to Madeleine McCann, the English girl who disappeared to the 3rd of May from Praia da Luz, Lagos.

Portugal Diário: Maddie: Found bag with bones

Last updated at 19h45
http://www.portugaldiario.iol.pt/noticia.php?id=928079

A few minutes had passed after 15pm when the team of divers contracted by the lawyer Aragão Correia found a bag « with bones », covered with mud, in the bottom of the dam of the Arade, revealed to PortugalDiário Telma Fernandes, an assistant to the lawyer.

To the place travelled the competent authorities which « in a first analysis » guaranteed that the bones were of an animal, declares the Portuguese News Agency Lusa, quoting anonymous sources from the GNR and from the PJ. « Certainly, there are not human bones given their dimensions and characteristics », avowed a source from the PJ.
A hypothesis which was always considered, « We do not know if they are human or from an animal », explained Telma Fernandes. « There are small bones and we only opened the bag barely to see the content. When we realized what it was we called the authorities and did not touch it any more », she guarantees.

« We can’t even see of which colour the bag is, because it is completely covered with mud. It was tied with ropes », adds the assistant of the Madeira lawyer.
The GNR and the Judiciary Police were in the field, did a perimeter of security, and near to 19pm left the zone without speaking with the persons who gave the alert of the "discover". « They took some bones and left the rest. The bag was here », tells Telma Fernandes. « It ended up by being taken by the detectives of the Spanish agency Método 3, which are going to analyse them ».

Searches for the second time

Marcos Aragão Correia is a lawyer and, for the second time in a few months, he sponsored with the support of a company from the Algarve, searches in the dam of the Arade, in Silves. It is in this place that he believes the body of Madeleine McCann was "dropped", a few days after her disappearance.
The searches recommenced last Monday and several strange objects were found. « Several ropes, a plastic bag and a child's stocking with four or five years », told to PortugalDiário Telma Fernandes. « This material already went to Barcelona where it is going to be analysed ».

In December last, the lawyer had already employed a team of divers and it was four days in the place. Then, « a rope of five meters was found », and was handed to the GNR of Lagos, recalls Telma. « We believe that afterwards it was taken to the Judiciary Police. But the fact is that no one has told us anything on the matter ». Therefore they have decided, this time, no to hand over anything « without analysing first in a private way ».

However, the "discovery" of this Friday did not leave an alternative to the lawyer and to the team of searches: “We had to call the authorities ». The bag was found « near of the tower of concentration, very much near to the place where other objects were gathered this week », reports Telma Fernandes.
« From now on the searches are going to be interrupted until we have results from the analyses to the bones and to the objects collected this week », concluded the assistant of the lawyer Aragão Correia.


Público: Madeleine: PJ and GNR followed to the dam of the Arade to do investigations

14.03.2008 - 17 h Portuguese
http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1322664&idCanal=62

A team from the PJ and some elements of the GNR moved today for the dam of the Arade, near to Silves, to do investigations in the continuation of a notice that would a bag with bones was found, said a police source.

The same source told to the Portuguese News Agency Lusa that several inspectors of the Judiciary Police - declining to specify in what number - and that elements of the GNR would have followed to help to isolate the place of the alleged discovery.

As previously reported in the Wednesday publication of the DN, since Monday a team of seven divers of the school of immersion Dive Time, of Lagos, helped by professionals of the Voluntary Firemen of Portimão specialized in corpses' redemption in deep waters, are doing searches in the dam of the Arade.

Several threads of ropes, plastic bags and a girl's stocking were found on Monday in the bottom of the waters of the dam of the Arade, which reinforced lawyer Aragão Correia in his “strong conviction” that the body of Madeleine McCann, disappeared on the 3rd of May of 2007 from Praia da Luz, is there.

 

[ThoughtFox]

Even Metodo are now confirming the bones in the bag taken from the lake were from a small animal, not a child:
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15596.shtml

A new Maddie sighting in Australia turned out to be false:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23389038-2,00.html

SYDNEY police were sent into a flutter today when a member of the public called in thinking they'd spotted missing British girl Madeleine McCann in the CBD.

Rail staff appeared to shadow a middle-aged man wearing a black beret and a little, blonde girl until police arrived at Town Hall train station to question the pair.

The Daily Telegraph spotted three police officers talking to the man and the girl at the Luneburger German Bakery underneath the Queen Victoria Building in the heart of the city.

But police say the report turned out to be a false alarm.

 

[colomom]

in Jornal de Noticias this morning:

http://jn.sapo.pt/2008/03/18/policia_e_tribunais/alguem_quer_destruir_a_vida_robert_m.html

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"Someone wants to destroy the life of Robert Murat"

"Someone wants to destroy the life of Robert Murat". The certainty of the lawyer of the first arguido in the Madeleine McCann case gathers strength as "new schemes" are being detected. The last one was the placement of GPS tracking devices on both cars that belong to the British citizen's family. According to Francisco Pagarete, it was Murat himself who, by pure coincidence, during a visit to a repairment garage late last year, discovered one of the gadgets glued to the underside of the van he usually drives. "I suggested that he should check the family's other car, and we were surprised to discover a GPS there, too", he said. The second vehicle, a Skoda Fabia, had been loaned to Michaela Walczuch, the German-Portuguese citizen that is Robert's business partner and a witness in the process. Both were almost always parked at the British citizen's door. After receiving the claim, the Policia Judiciaria (PJ) visited "Casa Liliana", in Praia da Luz, where Robert lives with his mother, Jennifer, under whose name both vehicles are registered.

No results

"The GPS devices were collected and an information sheet was sent to the Public Ministery, given the fact that a crime of intrusion into the private life is at stake, which is not within the PJ's area of competence", a source that is connected to the process told JN. The same source explained that the equipment registers data about the cars' movements. The information can only be read after the gadgets are connected to a computer. This means that the plans of whomever planted them, failed. According to Francisco Pagarete, this was not the only "attack" that Robert was subject to. The internet page of the real estate firm that he is a partner of, was hacked. "A parallel email account was created and messages were sent to various persons, in my client's name, scheduling meetings to talk about the Madeleine case. One of them was Sergey Malinka", the Russian citizen who is a witness in the process. Adding to all of this, Murat filed acomplaint with the GNR against English journalists who "opened the gate, invaded the property and forcefully wanted an interview". In order to "control" the excesses, Robert was forced to make an agreement, he removed the complaint and they left him in peace. The reporters agreed. Pagarete laments that "while Robert is not seeked after by the PJ, there are people who insist that he gets no rest". "We don't have evidence to accuse anyone, but we have been seeked after with insistence by British journalists and by detectives from Metodo 3 [the Spanish agency that was hired by the McCann couple to look for clues of Madeleine's whereabouts]", he says.

 

[colomom]

From Diario de Noticias this morning:

http://dn.sapo.pt/2008/03/18/sociedade/maddie_morta_e_lancada_mar_numa_nove.html

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Maddie killed and thrown into the sea in a novel "that is ongoing"

A work that promises the truth but dressed as an "enigma" that must be deciphered

The book ends with its main characters, policemen Francisco Meireles and his chief, João Tavares, looking out into the sea. It's no coincidence: the theory of former Policia Judiciaria inspector Paulo Cristovão, the author of 'The Star of Madeleine - Where, When, How, Who, What and Why" is that it was in "the immense sea that fills their horizon" that the child's body was concealed. The body which he calls the "queen evidence" and that throughout the story he recognizes, through the voices of Tavares and Meireles, will never be found. He even guarantees that, if it was in the area of Praia da Luz, where "over 500 apartments and hundreds of vehicles were searched", "hundreds of persons were inquired", "kilometers and kilometers of coastline and inland terrain was searched", "it really had to be found". But he concludes, "but it wasn't. It could not be".

The author does not clarify the motive why he believes that it could not be there. He only launches clues, like the one of the sea - and recognizes that as his theory. But about the body's route, the circumstances of death and its author, he does not advance much. He only concedes to say that he does not believe that the child survived the 3rd of May 2007, the day she disappeared. And he drops standalone information throughout the book, which helps to compose the scenario. The fact that the McCanns' apartment was found in an "impeccable" state, with all pieces of furniture properly located against the walls. The fact that the PJ of Portimao, on the night of the disappearance, was called to take care of the case through a contact of the English ambassador with the national directory, thus indicating the existence of contacts of the British in the Algarve with London; the fact that the policemen did not find a single item of medicine in the McCanns' apartment, "not even an Aspirine"; the fact that the parents immediately jumped on the abduction theory, never looking at the possibility that the three-year-old child (that would become four in a few days) could have left the apartment on her own and could be lost in the surroundings. "Facts" that in some cases are certified and in others not - after all, Cristóvão recognizes that "the game is still on, although a bit weak".

Which means that the investigation is ongoing - with the questioning of witnesses, the McCanns and their dinner companions of that evening, two of which, the book guarantees, are "fundamental" for the discovery of the truth. It is a conspiracy theory that is unveiled in this somewhat enigmatic book, which in its foreword promises revelations and contention simultaneously: "Due to legal issues, it cannot be me, the author, to tell you what the truth, the reality of the case is; nevertheless, I can assure you that you can find it here, within the lines of this book".

 

[ThoughtFox]

Robert Murat close to being cleared of Arguido Status.

His possessions are being returned:

http://itn.co.uk/news/7f4361da314ce394ead41683c5b95f21.html

Portuguese police have returned computers and other possessions they seized from Madeleine McCann "suspect" Robert Murat.

He described the move as a "very positive sign" - but is still waiting to be officially cleared of involvement in the young girl's disappearance.

. . . "Why would they return something if it was in the middle of being investigated in any way, shape or form?

"We are very happy to have the computers back, and I hope I will have my arguido status dropped very shortly."

 

[colomom]

Murat considers to prosecute the State
PJ returns personal objects apprehended from the first Arguido in Maddie’s case

The Judiciary Police returned several personal objects to Robert Murat, the first Arguido in the Maddie’s case. The possessions were apprehended during the searches to the house of the British man, nearly 100 meters away from the apartment of where the girl disappeared. Murat believes that is going to stop being arguido and admits to prosecute the State.

During ten months Robert Murat arguido in the Maddie case, was deprived of three portable computers, several PC cables, VHS tapes, a camera and several pieces of clothing and shoes.

The objects apprehended by the Judiciary Police, in May of 2007, in the sequence of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, from Praia da Luz, were returned to the British citizen last Wednesday.

Only some papers with numbers of telephone and personal notes are still kept annexed to the process.

With the devolution of these objects, Robert Murat believes that soon he will stop being in the list of Arguidos [formal suspects] in the Maddie case and that after proven his innocence he will be able to recover his professional life, which it seems to have been suspended since he was constituted arguido in one of the most mediatized cases in the last years.

The British man who has always claimed innocence advanced with three crime-complaints against Portuguese newspapers, since they had put in question, in the course of the investigations, his sexual options.

Contacted by SIC, the lawyer of Murat underlined that the news damaged the arguido personally and professionally.

Robert saw the site of his company online blocked and lives, since then, with the help of his mother. In the open is also the hypothesis of advancing with an action in Court against the Portuguese State.

In the context of the investigations there’s not much of new information. The Judiciary Police prepares now the travel of a team of inspectors to England, in order that they accompany the requests of interrogations to Kate and Gerry McCann and to the friends who were with them, in Praia da Luz, in the night of the 3rd of May, when Madeleine disappeared without leaving track.

Source SIC:
http://sic.sapo.pt/online/noticias/pais/20080324_Murat+pondera+processar+o+Estado+portugues.htm

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