"I have absolutely no doubt"/P Reis

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"I have absolutely no doubt"
One of the most common phrases that we were able to read or listen in TV, since 2007 is “I have absolutely no doubt!. Hundreds of “witnesses” were absolutely sure that a good number of blonde girls were Madeleine Mccann. But all of them just look at the girl and did nothing, like shouting, confronting the adults that were with the children or following them and calling the police, at the same time.
May be they had no mobile phone, like all the Tapas Seven, when they went out for dinner, the night Madeleine disappear. Ray Roberts, from Anglesey, North Wales, was on holidays in Malta. He saw Madeleine Mccann. According to the MailOnline, he saw a girl in the north-eastern town of Sliema wearing what he said was a jet black wig being told: "Get up little girl," by an Arab-looking man. "The more I think about what I saw the more convinced I become that it may well have been Madeleine," he said.
But that is what he said to the newspaper. Police in Malta denied that Mr. Ray Roberts has filed any report or even contacted authorities. But Ray Roberts wasn't alone. In a couple of days, police had to deal with a total of 12 sightings of blonde girls that were – according with the “witnesses” - Madeleine Mccann. Of course, none of those sightings were confirmed.
Belgian police had a more difficult task: 107 people were absolutely surethat they saw Madeleine Mccann. This is a phenomenon worth to be investigated. Is it a need to be in the news, to be famous, to see their names printed on a newspaper? Is it what Andy Warhol said, in1968? "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes?”

while the Police are having their attention taken away by these ridiculous
sightings their focus is diverted from the parents and their mates.

I think that most of the sightings (possibly after a few beers) will have been reported in good faith by people who wanted to help find Madeleine.

The telling part for me is that the McCanns themselves never bothered to show any interest in the sightings. There is an interview where they are asked how they feel whenever there is one and Gerry can hardly keep a straight face.

The only conclusion I can come to is that they know exactly what happened to Madeleine and that the reported sightings can't be her.

Quite NBY. Remember the sighting in the Belgian ice cream parlour, the local police were convinced enough to get DNA samples from the coke glass to see whether there was a match. They did not do that on a whim. These things cost time, manpower and money, so they must have thought that there was some merit in it. If that were my possible child I'd have been on the first plane to Brussels. The McCanns, meanwhile, were too busy doing TV interviews, 100s of miles away in Germany.

I've come across the clip where they are asked about sightings. It's about 20 seconds in so you don't have to put up with too much twaddle to get to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZcfFTOti-s