Maddie Seen By 8,685 People - The Sun

According to the Sun "investigation": "Maddie Seen By 8,685 People" (Monday's front page). The bogus sighting story is on pages 18 & 19, not of significant importance to warrant a full front page. (The text of which is not available at this time.)

SHE HAS BEEN DIGHTED IN ALMOST ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EXCEPT ANTARCTICA

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1989265/world-maddie-hunt-8685-potential-sightings-of-madeleine-mccann-in-101-countries/

WORLD'S HUNT FOR MADDIE We reveal the 8,685 ‘sightings’ of Madeleine McCann across 101 countries as desperate parents Kate and Gerry McCann continue search
The Met police has collated reported sightings under Operation Grange, but not all details have been released

Thanks for the info interested, I've cut and pasted the article and comments, (not the photos or descriptions of photos).

WORLD'S HUNT FOR MADDIE We reveal the 8,685 ‘sightings’ of Madeleine McCann across 101 countries as desperate parents Kate and Gerry McCann continue search
The Met police has collated reported sightings under Operation Grange, but not all details have been released
BY ANTONELLA LAZZERI 17th October 2016, 1:00 am
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TODAY The Sun can reveal the full extent of the hunt for Madeleine McCann.

Potential sightings of the British three-year old – snatched in 2007 in Portugal – total 8,685 across 101 countries and territories, a Freedom of Information request for the figures showed.

Can you spot her? . . . there have been more than 8,000 sightings of Maddie across the globe

Can you spot her? . . . there have been more than 8,000 sightings of Maddie across the globe
Many of the sightings were collated by Portuguese cops and stamped “NFA” – No Further Action – as they believed the youngster, left, was dead, compounding the despair of parents Kate and Gerry.

Since May 2011 the Met police has collated reported sightings under Operation Grange.

Few have been released to the public, as we report on these pages. In our story and
graphic, we plot where Madeleine has been spotted across the globe.

Missing Maddie . . . police have recorded 8,685 potential sightings of missing Brit since 2007 PA:PRESS ASSOCIATION PICTURE DESK

Second Story: Madeleine cops hunt new suspect
1. ALGERIA: October 2008: A man reported he had seen a blonde girl with a British accent, who looked liked Madeleine, with a dark-skinned Algerian family who were “acting suspiciously”.

2. ANDORRA: Details not made public.

3. ARGENTINA: June 19, 2007: A man took a photo of a girl “identical” to Madeleine. Sighting later ruled out.

4. AUSTRALIA. July 26, 2015: A suitcase containing the skeletal remains of a fair-haired young girl was discovered next to a motorway in Wynarka, near Adelaide. Pathologists said she would have died in 2007. There was speculation that the body was Madeleine’s after a cop said it did not match descriptions of any missing children in that country. But the victim’s DNA did not match Madeleine’s.

5. AUSTRIA: July 2008: A couple at a hotel in St. Valentin claimed a girl resembling Madeleine cried “Help me!” in English as a man dragged her away.

6. AZORES: Details not made public.

7. BANGLADESH: Details not made public.

8. BELGIUM: May 14, 2007: A British man claimed he saw a child asleep on a train from Brussels to Antwerp and thought she looked drugged. The girl was with a balding, 6ft white man in his forties, who got off the train at Mechelen carrying her. British Police trawled CCTV footage but eventually ruled out the sighting.

9. BELIZE: Details not made public.

10. BOLIVIA: Details not made public.

11. BRAZIL: June 7, 2007: A man spotted Madeleine in an Ipanema cafe sitting with a man. He said she looked “sad” and did not speak to her male companion.
May 11, 2007: A man said he saw Madeleine at a book fair in Cinelandia Square, Rio de Janeiro. She was with a white woman and speaking English.

12. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: Details not made public.

13. BOSNIA: July 8, 2007: A British tourist believed he had seen Madeleine at the Roman Catholic shrine of Medjugorje. He said the little blonde girl he saw with a couple was “agitated and sobbing”. Police investigated and traced the girl, who was a local.

14. BULGARIA: May 26, 2007: Female Brit tourists saw Madeleine in a hotel in Sunny Beach with a man. When the girl took her sunglasses off the man told her to put them back on which she found suspicious. Madeleine had a defect in her right eye.

15. CAMBODIA: June 2014: Police travelled to the Southeast Asian country to quiz convicted paedophile Roderick Robertson about Madeleine.

16. CANADA: May 4, 2009: Distressed viewers inundated a Canadian TV station with calls after a blonde girl identical to Madeleine was shown singing with a choir on a news show. Private investigators studied the footage and ruled it out.

17. CANARY ISLANDS: June 27, 2007: Madeleine spotted in a Chinese restaurant in Playas De Las Americas eating with a “dark-skinned family”.

18. CHILE: Details not made public.

19: CHINA: July 3, 2007: A man spotted a tall, blonde girl who looked like Madeleine at Taipei Airport with two men. They were never traced.

20. COSTA RICA: Details not made public.

21. CROATIA: June 19, 2007: She was seen in Dubrovnik, laying on the floor “kicking and screaming” and yelling: “I’m never going to see them again.”

22. CUBA: Details not made public.

23. CYPRUS: October, 2012: A British couple and three children their flat in Ayia Napa after a neighbour alerted police that a girl with them was 'identical' to Madeleine. The family have never been traced.

24: CZECH REPUBLIC: Details not made public.

25: DENMARK: Details not made public.

26: DUBAI: May 31, 2007: A caller, claiming to be a UK barrister, told Portuguese police that Madeleine had been taken out of Portugal on a ship registered in Holland. The report was ruled out.

27: EGYPT: May 23, 2007: A British woman on a boat trip in Sharm El Sheik saw a blonde girl on another boat screaming at a man. Egyptian authorities investigated and ruled it out.
September 12, 2009: Maddie spotted at a hotel in Hurghada. Not traced.

28. ESTONIA: Details not made public.

29. FIJI: Details not made public.

30. FINLAND: Details not made public.

31. FRANCE: May 26, 2008: Seen in a restaurant in Montpellier by a student who shouted out 'Maddie' at which the girl looked up 'surprised' before a man with her 'bundled' her out.

32. FRENCH POLYNESIA: Details not made public.

33. THE GAMBIA: Details not made public.

34. GERMANY: May 31, 2007: Maddie was spotted in a car park in Offenburg.

35. GIBRALTAR: May 2007: A Brit couple said they saw a woman pushing a girl who looked like Madeleine in a trolley out of Marks & Spencer’s. They said they heard the girl shout: “You’re not my Mummy.” The woman replied: “Of course I am.”

36. GREECE: May 12, 2007: A girl resembling Maddie seen in a watch store in Milos.

37. GUATEMALA: Details not made public.

38. HONG KONG: June 14, 2007: A woman said she saw Madeleine in a shopping centre but this was ruled out after police studied CCTV footage.

39. HUNGARY: Details not made public.

40. IBIZA: August 12, 2007: A woman saw a girl who had the same visible eye defect as Madeleine.

41. ICELAND: Details not made public.

42. INDIA: July 28, 2011. A British tourist was so convinced a girl in the northern city of Leh was Madeleine she took a photo of her. When it was shown to Kate and Gerry they said it was not her.

43. INDONESIA: Details not made public.

44. ISRAEL: Details not made public.

45. ITALY: June 17, 2007: A British man said he saw Maddie in Bari, walking along with a “large” lady.

46. JAPAN: Details not made public.

47. JERSEY: May 9, 2007: A woman in a park saw a man and a young blonde girl at the top of the slide. She thought it strange as there was no interaction between them all the time she was there. The man was Portuguese but spoke English. Police investigated but ruled it out.

48. JORDAN: Details not made public.

49. KENYA: July 24, 2007: A man saw a child who looked like Madeleine on an internal flight from KTC Wildlife Safari Park, Kichwa Tembo. She got off at the next stop and was never traced.

50. KOSOVO: Details not made public.

51. LAOS: Details not made public.

52. LATVIA: July 3, 2007: A man said she saw a blonde girl exactly like Madeleine holding a woman’s hand in the capital of Riga. He took a photo of her which was later ruled out.
July 20, 2007: A man spotted Madeleine, again in Riga.

53. LITHUANIA: Details not made public.

54. LUXEMBOURG: Details not made public.

55. MACEDONIA: Details not made public

56. MADAGASCAR: Details not made public

57. MADEIRA: May 16, 2007: Madeleine seen in a black car in Funchal.

58. MALAYSIA: Details not made public

59. MALTA: July 20, 2007: A couple staying in a hotel in St Julian’s saw a girl who looked like Madeleine screaming in the hallway. She was rushed away by a couple after guests came out to see what was going on.

60. MAURITIUS: Details not made public.

61. MEXICO: July, 2007: A man said he heard a little scream 'Help me, help me!' while visiting friends in Mexico City. He said she had blonde hair and spoke English. He flagged down a police car but they did nothing.

62. MONACO: Details not made public.

63. MONTENEGRO: June 15, 2007: Dr. Seamus Hegarty, a child educational specialist, said he saw a girl like Madeleine while at a conference in Budva.

64. MOROCCO: August 2007: In the town of Fnideq, A woman aged around 50 was spotted with a blonde girl who had a mark in her eye like Madeleine’s. The girl also had a dummy around her neck, not something usually seen in Morocco.

65. MOZAMBIQUE: May 26, 2007: A man saw Madeleine being driven in a 4x4 in Maputo by a man with no teeth. The witness took the number plate. Police traced the man and it was ruled out.
May 26, 2007. Another caller said he had seen Madeleine with a white man in the capital.

66. NEPAL: Details not made public.

67. NETHERLANDS: May 2007: Amsterdam shop worker Ana Stam, 41, claimed a little girl of three or four who said her name was “Maddie” asked her: “Do you know where my mummy is?”
Then she pointed to the couple she was with and told Ana: “They took me from my holiday.” Ana said the little girl was with a Portuguese man and woman. Ana reported her fears to police but nothing was done.

68. NEW ZEALAND: May 2007.: A girl there bore such a strong resemblence to Madeleine that police had to investigate whether she was her TWICE. After a photo of the girl went viral in March 2012 police interviewed her parents and said they believed she was their daughter.
A few months later police officers requested DNA tests from the girl, which finally ruled her out.

69. NORWAY: September 2007: Madeleine was seen at a cafe in Skarnes. She was with two smartly dressed men.

70. OMAN: Details not made public.

71. PANAMA: Details not made public.

72. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Details not made public.

73. PARAGUAY: May 2016: Officers from Interpol and an anti-kidnapping elite squad went into action when British private eye Miraz Ullah Ali claimed earlier this year he had uncovered evidence Madeleine was being held in Paraguay. He said a woman was looking after her in the city of Aregua. There was a huge search there but nothing was found. He later said he was “mistaken”.

74. PERU: Details not made public

75. PHILIPPINES: Face-imaging computer experts have examined “dozens” of child abuse images beamed from the Philippines to identify if any are Madeleine.

76. POLAND: May 12, 2007. A medical student in Wroclaw saw a taxi with a young girl like Madeleine in it with a “tough looking” man.

77. PORTUGAL: May 23, 2007: A girl seen in Vilamoura had a mark in her eye like Madeleine has.

78. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: May 2007: A woman in Dublin told police she had seen a girl who looked like Madeleine getting on a bus with a man at Eden Quay. They got off at the city centre. CCTV images of the girl were studied and the sighting ruled out.

79. ROMANIA: Details not made public.

80. SERBIA: June 2, 2008: A man thought he saw Madeleine in the back of a car in Belgrade.

81. SEYCHELLES: Details not made public.

82. SINGAPORE: June 21, 2007: A woman saw a white couple in a sushi restaurant with a girl who looked like Madeleine.

83. SLOVAKIA: Details not made public.

84. SLOVENIA: Details not made public.

85. SOUTH AFRICA: In June 2007 police driving through Cape Town noticed two black men in a car driving with a young blonde child. When they stopped the vehicle the men grabbed the child and ran off towards Table Mountain. Cops gave chase but lost them. The incident was reported to Leicestershire Police as a possible sighting of Madeleine.

86. SPAIN: There have been numerous sightings of Madeline since she went missing including:
May 25, 2007: girl fitting her description in Puerto Banus in a bar with a woman. The child was wrapped in a blanket and crying.
July 11, 2007: A woman spotted “Madeleine” on a beach near San Pedro with a man of 50 who was rubbing sun lotion on her.

87. SRI LANKA: Details not made public.

88. SWEDEN: October 2009: A photo of a girl at a car show in Stockholm that appeared on a website led to Swedish police being inundated with calls that she was Madeleine. Face-mapping technology used by British police identified the girl as a possible match. Swedish police were unable to trace the girl.

89. SWITZERLAND: May 25, 2007: A family driving near the Gotthard tunnel were hit by an Alfa Romeo. The driver of the Alfa was a male aged between 30 and 40 with a pony tail. He kept getting out and 'nervously' checking the back door was locked. In the back was a small blonde girl wrapped in a towel.

90. SYRIA: Details not made public.

91. THAILAND: Details not made public.

92. TUNISIA: Details not made public.

93. TURKEY: May 25, 2007: A man saw a girl resembling Madeleine in a market in Istanbul with a dark-skinned woman who she was speaking English to.

94. UGANDA: Details not made public.

95. UNITED KINGDOM: February 20, 2008: A retired civil servant reported that a Portuguese couple who knocked on his door in Dorset had a blonde-haired child with them he was sure was Madeleine. The couple were never traced.

96.UKRAINE: Details not made public.

97. USA: July 25, 2007: A man at Disney World in Florida saw a girl on a Disney bus who looked like Madeleine. She was with a man in his mid-50s who treated the girl 'strangely' because he didn't speak to her at all during the journey.

98. URUGUAY: Details not made public.

99. VANUATU: Details not made public.

100. VENEZUELA: May 2008: Brit Trevor Francis said he saw a girl like Madeleine with a blemish in her eye on the Island of Margarita.

101. VIETNAM: July 2007: Madeleine spotted in Vietnam, but the report to police had so few details they were unable to act on it.

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sherlock holmes 1 minute ago
Gerry's global campaign to generate 8685 illusions was a success. Gerry's campaign to find his daughter has turned out to be a complete farce. As the days and years tick away the dog results become more and more convincing and offer the only possible explanation for all those lies.

Nine and half years and still no such explanation has been provided for the level of their dishonesty and lack of cooperation.

Perhaps the author of this article can provide an explanation for the youtube clip titled - Mccanns..Crying story or crying wolf? (pt2)



This story is a perfect demonstration of the funds true sinister intentions. PR companies and countless libel trials have never contributed to find a missing child.


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PAUL ARCHER
PAUL ARCHER 55 minutes ago
The 'author' of this story, is of course a friend of the Mccanns.



Enough said.


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PAUL ARCHER
PAUL ARCHER 56 minutes ago
They weren't Madeleine Mccann.................

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Iain McGregor
Iain McGregor 59 minutes ago
As I have said in many a post on here, the Met need to go to the courts and get a court order against the McCann's to take a polygraph test and then and only then will they find out what happened to Maddie. These two are quite happy to keep this search going as it keeps them out of prison.

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James English
James English 1 hour ago
The parents did it, drugged the kids with sleeping pills so they wouldn't wake up and cry (like they did the previous night).

It's about time this charade was put to bed and the parents are incarcerated for life.

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John Smith
John Smith 1 hour ago
Can we now safely say that that the parents got away with it?

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Andrew Morse
Andrew Morse 2 hours ago
I applaud any charity that attempts to provide care for 'high risk' children but in Madeleine's case she was put in a 'high risk' situation by the negligence of her parents. Seems to me that Madeleine will never be found while the law is blind to that.

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Tanequil Smith
Tanequil Smith 2 hours ago
Only Gerry and Kate know where she really is or where they put her. It is like the story of the Emperor's new clothes everyone knows the obvious yet nobody will say it.

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Jason Mills
Jason Mills 2 hours ago
Yet more lies. Bravo Antonella 👏👏👏 You say she was "snatched". Please do show some proof of this so called "snatching" before blatantly printing it as fact. FACT is,two highly trained and successful sniffer dogs from the U.K. Proved Madeleine came to harm on that holiday,so therefore all these alleged sightings are nothing but twaddle.

Time this circus was ended once and for all. Tax payers have been fleeced enough on what is nothing more than chasing shadows. £12million and over five years of operation grange has found what? NOTHING.

You people hound and belittle the PJ and lie and accuse them of being incompetent etc,yet I don't see the PJ wasting £12 million and counting,or wasting much needed rescources on a child who will not be found. Who are the incompetent ones?


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josh kellaway
josh kellaway 3 hours ago
To quell rumours the McCanns should take a polygraph.

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Dog Breath
Dog Breath 2 hours ago
@josh kellaway The whole tapas gang need to be water boarded.

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Iain McGregor
Iain McGregor 54 minutes ago
@josh kellaway That will never happen, they both refused to take one in Portugal and their friends in high places here in the UK gave he Portuguese Government a hard time who in turn gave their Police Commissioner a hard time.

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paul gregory
paul gregory 4 hours ago
All spin blame the parents

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jbird65
jbird65 5 hours ago
All that time and money wasted, when there were only ever 2 real suspects and they are her parents. I'll never understand why the police refuse to question them aggressively and the press seem to have bought their BS too.

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Dog Breath
Dog Breath 2 hours ago
@jbird65 When you find a gold mine you keep digging.

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Iain McGregor
Iain McGregor 50 minutes ago
@jbird65 Why do you think they fled Portugal so hastily they were about to be questioned again but with more determination by the Police as they always suspected the snatching story was fabricated by the Tapas 7.

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chiangmai1 5 hours ago
we take any donations any currency whatever.we love what we do now and travel the world with this story.we did nothing honest,but if you want us to talk speak to out lawyer first,then maybe we will meet you

Many thanks to "malena stool" for the full article AND the comments. So the Sun "investigation" appears to be from the results obtained by Antonella Lazzeri under a Freedom of Information request.

I don't see how the McCanns can complain that Mr. Amaral's book hindered the search when people in all these countries were aware of Madeleine's "disappearance" and were at least on the lookout for her or we wouldn't know of these bogus "sightings" around the globe.

My biggest surprise about this was...

whaaaa..Lazzeri is still alive. How did she survive without her 24/7 mccann dose?

Badboy wrote:SHE HAS BEEN DIGHTED IN ALMOST ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EXCEPT ANTARCTICA

Yes, Madeleine has been 'sighted' in 101 of the 196 countries in the world. While the majority of the 'sightings' were within the first few years of her 'disappearance', taken on average over nine and one-half years, it works out to over a 'sighting' every day.

I HAVE WORKED OUT THAT THE SIGHTINGS ARE IS AN AVERAGE OF 23 FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR,A PUBLICATION DETAILING EVERY SIGHTING WOULD DEFINATELY TAKE SOME TIME TO RUN OUT OF MATERIAL.

Prepare yourselves - there are photos on this link of the wondrous Antonella.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1872900/miracle-30-face-cream-that-actually-works-after-ten-hours/

Not Born Yesterday wrote:Prepare yourselves - there are photos on this link of the wondrous Antonella.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1872900/miracle-30-face-cream-that-actually-works-after-ten-hours/

Badboy wrote:SHE HAS BEEN DIGHTED IN ALMOST ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EXCEPT ANTARCTICA

reuters 1-4-08.......stop........latest

Maddie McCann maybe hidden in WW11 underground bunker....stop...
Antarctica....latest sighting on Norwegian Whaler...reports landing off 82.8'S 135.4'E young girl matching appearance Maddie McCann seen walking towards enclosure....escorted 3 men 1 woman....undisclosed source 23.00hrs.

Today The Sun congratulations itself, "McCanns thank The Sun - Official Find Madeleine McCann Campaign says The Sun has kept hunt for missing daughter alive" complete with 4 comments.

This SHOULD put an end to their complaint that Mr. Amaral's book hindered the search.