Re: PJ request case reopened

comperedna Thu 24 Oct - 15:34

Brunty kept on about KM and GM pushing and pushing to have the case re-opened and now it is happening! Hah! I don't think they were keen to have the case re-opened at all. They appear to be hostile to the Portuguese police as a whole.

**widowan** Fri 25 Oct - 0:12

comperedna wrote:Adam Bolton, who has his head screwed on, said around lunchtime that it was clear that both the UK and Portuguese police still had a great deal to do. Work was still in the early stages!

Portugal has a new Attorney General who has to give permission before the case may be re-opened. She used to be involved with child protection, so may have a different attitude from that of her predecessor. She has evidently agreed to the PJ's request to have the case re-opened. She would not have done so unless there was some evidence stronger than 'theories' , large numbers (41!)of 'persons of interest' etc... Something by way of more solid evidence must surely have turned up.

Some time before 3pm, Brunty came onto Sky News saying that the reason for the re-opening has nothing to do with the Mets new probing, but because of the year long re-investigation by the Portuguese team from Oporto, each of whom was chosen because they had no connection with the original case. It is to be re-opened because of something new, probably concerning abduction, that this team have discovered. Brunty says the SY and the new PJ team are working in parallel, but collaborating. The last time they met was on Oct 17th.

Teresa May came on with the old mantra about needing to find out what happened to Madeleine for her parents sake. I'm sorry, but we all need to find out what happened to her for her own sake! A British family goes on holiday with three children and comes back with only two of them! Madeleine is a British citizen and the Met need to find out what happened to her for everyone's sake. She is also a ward of court. It is NOT merely to find out so KM and GM can know what happened to her. It is most likely she is dead, either by accident or murdered by someone... unless it is a scam and a hoax (most unlikely).

Maybe someone

Yeah, they will reopen so they don't let the SY outdo them or be seen to outdo them. If they work together maybe we'll get something. Cameron speaking for the family, how nice of him. I can't see most heads of major countries getting so involved, is there an election coming soon?

**kitti** Fri 25 Oct - 7:57

The pj and SY aren't working together though.

They are both doing their own investigation .

How will this pan out.

SY....abduction...no evidence .

PJ.....death........dogs evidence.

How will they get round this....come in the middle and say the PAEDO killed her in the apt....How?

Karen Fri 25 Oct - 8:11

From Joana Morais - http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2013/10/pj-reconstitutes-abduction-theory-in.html

**dazedandconfused** Fri 25 Oct - 8:37

Looks like abduction by person or persons unknown seems to be the current theory after reading Joanna's latest. Slight hope that they want a proper reconstruction but I won't hold my breath

almostgothic Fri 25 Oct - 8:44

Thanks Karen.
Proper news from a proper newspaper.
As opposed to the usual CM-imposed excrement from the UK Dung Heap Press.

frencheuropean Fri 25 Oct - 9:43

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2013/10/pj-reconstitutes-abduction-theory-in.htmlhttp://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2013/10/pj-reconstitutes-abduction-theory-in.html

A rather hostile article and an interesting information about a mock reconstruction by the PJ:

The reconstitution of Madeleine McCann's disappearance, on May 3, 2007 - which was one of the steps that were never done due to unavailability of the English child's parents and friends who accompanied them at the time of the disappearance - will now be able to be carried out. The family of the girl are already available to cooperate with the Portuguese police, after the authorities demonstrated their intention to follow once again the abduction theory.

Set aside, for the time being, is the hypothesis that it was a negligent homicide - as was defended by the PJ in a first stage of the investigation. The process, as CMTV first reported before yesterday, has also been reopened by the PGR [Attorney General's Office] at the request of the Judiciary Police.

These new steps are part of a far broader investigation, which the PJ has begun two years ago. At that time, the process - although archived - had been handed over to a team of Porto, who reanalyzed the case and understood there were gaps in the investigation.

A little over a month, even before the case had been reopened, the investigators were at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz. They went back to check the distance at which the group was dining at the moment of the girl's disappearance and, insofar as possible, attempted to make a reconstruction of the events.

The participation of Maddie's parents and their friends in this endeavour is nevertheless crucial to understand exactly what happened. Kate would have been the one who alerted, when she went to the bedroom to check if the children were sleeping. At that time, the group were dining at the restaurant of the tourist resort and they would have already drunk several bottles of wine. All of them guaranteed that they weren't aware of any strange individuals in the surrounding area.

Correio da Manhã, October 25, 2013

**kitti** Fri 25 Oct - 10:12

A sprat to catch a mackerel ....

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