Thanks for the joke He's clearly in over his head and trying to prove that there's a gigantic conspiracy to frame the McCanns and dismissing all evidence to the contrary regardless of who it is from (even the McCanns themselves!). Yes, in other words, he's doing an Eddie
No, it's you who's doing an "eddie" because you are indulging in conspiracy theories. Open your eyes and don't be so lazy in your research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Joana_Cipriano Allegations of police misconduct Though Leonor Cipriano confessed to killing her daughter, it was only after nearly 48 hours of continuous interrogation, and she retracted her confession the next day, claiming she had been beaten. She had extensive bruising after the interrogation, which the police claimed came about when she threw herself down the stairs.[SUP] [/SUP]Since then Gonçalo Amaral and four other Portuguese police officers have been charged with offences.[SUP] [/SUP]"Mr Amaral was not present at the time of her alleged beating but is accused of covering up for his colleagues, which he strenuously denies. "[SUP] [/SUP]Leonor Cipriano's former lawyer said that Leonor does not know who beat her up.
I blame the pikies, my mum warned me about those child snatchers as a kid.... Shoving the little foil heather thing in your face for money...... please log in to view this image
The village of Figueira is only seven miles from Praia da Luz, where Madeleine McCann disappeared on 3 May 2007. In both cases the mothers launched campaigns to find their girls and in both cases the local police, unable to find the girls alive, investigated the possibility of the mothers having killed their daughters. On 19 June 1996, a six-year-old German child, Renè Hasèe, also disappeared, from the Amoreira beach near Aljezur while walking a few metres ahead of his parents. A child protection specialist, Mark Williams-Thomas, who believes that Joana's and Madeleine's disappearances are related, commented that the disappearance of two children unknown to each other, within a period of four years in a seven-mile radius, would be a huge coincidence, especially considering that "Portugal is a small country with very, very few abductions" (Portugal's land area is about 70% of England's land area; its population in 2007 was roughly 22% of England's population).
From the well respected Portuguese newspaper, EXPRESSO. The translation is a bit iffy. They have no time for Amaral's clearly flawed and discredited theories, and draw paralells to his previously botched handling of the Cipriano case, one which has resulted in an innocent woman being framed for a crime few in Portugal believes she committed. http://aeiou.expresso.pt/maddie-nao-repousa-em-paz=f372432 The thesis was, in itself, truly unbelievable. A couple of foreign citizens who never came to Portugal on holiday, in a small village with intense movement of people and tourists, would, during a dinner with seven friends in a restaurant for all to see, arranged a way to go to the room where their daughter slept with brothers, take her body to give her disappearance and return to dinner as if nothing had happened. All this done over a period of half an hour to an hour, without anyone's notice and with such success that they neither knew the terrain and its surroundings, able to elude the search of hundreds of popular and GNR, made days within a radius of wire fifty miles. You had to believe this nonsense, and yet researchers believed and national leadership of the PJ, it seems, too. And then followed what PJ is a speciality, every time it cannot unravel a media case: start blowing information and opinions to the press, suggesting that knows very well what happened, but that strong obstacles (in this case, diplomatic ), to prevent yet to be able to say. Men's PJ hand in the press - journalists, former policemen and other 'experts' - then began to feed the dirty campaign against the McCanns, that was very strange that she would not cry, the couple had sexually immoral habits, which friends were all suspicious, she had complained that Maddie was a difficult child, etc.. and such. Prepared the ground, it was then the final blow: the constitution of the McCanns as suspects - which, for the bulk of public opinion, national or international, only meant that the Portuguese police had the suspects as the death and concealment of a corpse of the daughter. Then, also as usual, began searching for evidence to support the thesis - the opposite of any serious investigation. The McCanns and the friends were being interrogated for hours, hoping that one of them is 'sagging' with what the investigators wanted to hear. As The Times wrote, to their astonishment, the Portuguese police still clinging to research methods that are essentially self-incrimination by taking the suspects, or through wiretapping or the confession, both spontaneous or not, of themselves. As explained by an 'expert' in RTP, when the suspects are not available to continue to be asked “ad nauseam”, the Police has no 'investigative means. " And so, when the McCanns are all gone home, tired of being there and always on hand to see the police obtain incriminating only concerned with them as murderers of their own daughter, instead of seeking their captors, the PJ did not know what to do. The old and lazy methods had not resulted and there were others who knew her. More than a year later, will lift up the infamous suspicion about a couple who had the misfortune of losing her daughter in Portugal and about an Englishman who had the misfortune of being neighbor to the village and have raised suspicions of a journalist.
