Amaral Defence Fund

Carolina wrote:By the way, Sans-souci, you have been very quiet since just before the hearings started on the book ban. Expected some kind of reaction to the 3 days of hearings in Lisbon from you. I would be interested in hearing what you have to say.

sans_souci wrote:

Carolina wrote:By the way, Sans-souci, you have been very quiet since just before the hearings started on the book ban. Expected some kind of reaction to the 3 days of hearings in Lisbon from you. I would be interested in hearing what you have to say.

Bit off topic.

But not much to say really. In my view Amarals witnesses didn't do him any favours, but it is in the hands of the judge now and we will have to see what her verdict is sometime after the 10th.

vivvy wrote:

sans_souci wrote:

Carolina wrote:By the way, Sans-souci, you have been very quiet since just before the hearings started on the book ban. Expected some kind of reaction to the 3 days of hearings in Lisbon from you. I would be interested in hearing what you have to say.

Bit off topic.

But not much to say really. In my view Amarals witnesses didn't do him any favours, but it is in the hands of the judge now and we will have to see what her verdict is sometime after the 10th.

'Amarals witnesses didn't do him any favours'?!! They agreed with him that Maddie was probably dead and her parents implicated!

sans_souci wrote:

Carolina wrote:By the way, Sans-souci, you have been very quiet since just before the hearings started on the book ban. Expected some kind of reaction to the 3 days of hearings in Lisbon from you. I would be interested in hearing what you have to say.

Bit off topic.

But not much to say really. In my view Amarals witnesses didn't do him any favours, but it is in the hands of the judge now and we will have to see what her verdict is sometime after the 10th.

sans_souci wrote:With the next phase of the appeal coming up, have there been any updates on this? How much raised, and whether it is sufficient.

At the outset, it was declared that this would be conducted in a spirit of openness and transparency. But so far, this seems to have been honoured in the breach, with one brief update weeks ago.

Mystycal wrote:

sans_souci wrote:With the next phase of the appeal coming up, have there been any updates on this? How much raised, and whether it is sufficient.

At the outset, it was declared that this would be conducted in a spirit of openness and transparency. But so far, this seems to have been honoured in the breach, with one brief update weeks ago.

I dont see a problem if Amaral supporters want to support him with financial help or should we all abandon him just because he's the only one with balls to speak out?

When the McCanns are honest about how they've spent the money I'm sure Amaral will feel he owes the scams fanclub an answer to your question.

RIORITA wrote:I also do not see the problem. I have given to the fund and
would gladly give more if required.

margaret wrote:Is there really a fund for Amaral? I never knew that it wasn't well publicised.

He should have got Clarrie to advertise it for him - l could have sent him some money in a brown envelope.

tabs wrote:it's a valid question sans

as it would also be for anyone that donated to the maddy fund

tell me if it emerges that Mr Amaral has spent 37,000 euros on a website would you consider that a valid expense and a good use of your donated money?

sans_souci wrote:As a contributor to the fund I would just like an update. Which, despite requests, has not been forthcoming.

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sans_souci wrote:As a contributor to the fund I would just like an update. Which, despite requests, has not been forthcoming.

you contributed? why?

Marky wrote:

sans_souci wrote:As a contributor to the fund I would just like an update. Which, despite requests, has not been forthcoming.

you contributed? why?

sans_souci wrote:

tabs wrote:it's a valid question sans

as it would also be for anyone that donated to the maddy fund

tell me if it emerges that Mr Amaral has spent 37,000 euros on a website would you consider that a valid expense and a good use of your donated money?

I would be very surprised if Amaral spent anything on a website - flash cars seem to be more his thing. And as it unlikely that much more than 3000 euros will have been raised, unlikely.

More to the point - when the "fund" was launched complete transparency and frequent progress reports were promised. These do not seem to have been realised in practice. Inhabitants of glasshouses, etc.

duncanmac wrote:

Marky wrote:

sans_souci wrote:As a contributor to the fund I would just like an update. Which, despite requests, has not been forthcoming.

you contributed? why?

Cos He/She is part of team McCann.

sans_souci wrote:

Marky wrote:

sans_souci wrote:As a contributor to the fund I would just like an update. Which, despite requests, has not been forthcoming.

you contributed? why?

For the same reason that many others contributed, I would imagine. Althought I disagree with Amaral on practically every level, I believe that court is the place to thrash out the issues surrounding his book It would be unjust for him to be denied his opportunity to appeal the injunction and defend his right to publish his book against libel actions, on financial grounds. I was therefore happy to contribute to the fund, and would probably do so again if there were a demonstrable need.

It is interesting that, having been critical of the McCanns with regard to the find Madeleine fund, the organisers of this one seem to be very reticent to provide any information to contributors.

sans_souci wrote:

Marky wrote:

sans_souci wrote:As a contributor to the fund I would just like an update. Which, despite requests, has not been forthcoming.

you contributed? why?

For the same reason that many others contributed, I would imagine. Althought I disagree with Amaral on practically every level, I believe that court is the place to thrash out the issues surrounding his book It would be unjust for him to be denied his opportunity to appeal the injunction and defend his right to publish his book against libel actions, on financial grounds. I was therefore happy to contribute to the fund, and would probably do so again if there were a demonstrable need.

It is interesting that, having been critical of the McCanns with regard to the find Madeleine fund, the organisers of this one seem to be very reticent to provide any information to contributors.