channel SIC tonight.

Interview with Amaral at 21.00.
Looks like it might be interesting.

It will be I think.

Is this the one where he is being interviewed by a Portugese reporter who is a Mccann supporter?

Because if so, should make for interesting listening.

fred wrote:Interview with Amaral at 21.00.
Looks like it might be interesting.

"Morning Fred,

Are you going to tell us what is said. BTW, which Portugese TV Channel was it that the Reporter broadcast
the fact that Madeleine had been crying for over an hour. I remember Clarence blaming the Portugese Police
who immediately denied it was them. If it was TV1, this might be the real reason the McCanns are suing, to get
their own back.

I will be recording it. Last week, Miguel Sousa Tavares interviewed José Sócrates and in ratings in fell behind the news on one station and a telenovela on another station. It was not a very hard hitting interview from what I heard. Normally when either MST or JS appear on television I switch channels so I did not see that interview but I will not miss this one. I just hope that Gonçalo speaks louder, sometimes I have trouble understanding him.

I'm afraid it becomes very difficult for Amaral with Sousa Tavares. I think about an article where he was critical of Amaral. The parents versus the bungling PJ cops.

I believe that GA can hold his own with MST, it's easy when you have the truth on your side and you know the whole investigation.

He knows what to expect very well.

Claudia79 wrote:He knows what to expect very well.

Is it a live interview, or pre-recorded? I saw it advertised last night, so I've got it on record already, can't wait.

fred wrote:

Claudia79 wrote:He knows what to expect very well.

Is it a live interview, or pre-recorded? I saw it advertised last night, so I've got it on record already, can't wait.

To be honest, Fred, I haven't asked. But Mr Amaral could well have declined the invitation because he knows very well what MST is like.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8521940.stm

The McCanns' lawyer, Isabel Duarte, said outside court that the judge had confirmed the original decision, so the book could not be reproduced or sold and Mr Amaral could not give interviews or statements about his theory in the book

A direct lie from Isabel Duarte, I presume.

Laffin Assasin wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8521940.stm

The McCanns' lawyer, Isabel Duarte, said outside court that the judge had confirmed the original decision, so the book could not be reproduced or sold and Mr Amaral could not give interviews or statements about his theory in the book

A direct lie from Isabel Duarte, I presume.

I believe they will be talking about Amaral's second book, 'The English gag', not 'The truth of the lie'.
Amaral is yhe only Portuguese citizen who CAN NOT talk about the case publicly.
Miguel Sousa Tavares may try to trick him into talking about the case or the first book and cause him legal problems.

Perhaps there is some truth to Isabel Duarte's statement. Maybe Amaral is not allowed to talk about his theory of death and hiding the cadaver, but he is free to discuss the inconsistencies as well as the strange behavior of the McCanns without drawing any conclusions. He is certainly not completely gagged, as we have heard him speak about the case since the injunction was upheld.

jinvta wrote:Perhaps there is some truth to Isabel Duarte's statement. Maybe Amaral is not allowed to talk about his theory of death and hiding the cadaver, but he is free to discuss the inconsistencies as well as the strange behavior of the McCanns without drawing any conclusions. He is certainly not completely gagged, as we have heard him speak about the case since the injunction was upheld.

If you read the injunction, I take it that neither Amaral or TV1 can discuss the book, its contents, or the documentary. However, they are free to discuss other matters of the case. He is not allowed to discuss his theory, but he is allowed to discuss the case in general. Thats how I read it anyway.

Starting now. Live !!!
Interview with Amaral only on the second half.

That Miguel Sousa Tavares is one of the most irritating men on this planet! He wouldn't let Gonçalo Amaral talk. He kept interrupting and talking right over with that arrogant know-it-all smirk of his plastered on his self-satisfied face. He might as well have put a cardboard cutout of GA in the chair facing him and just spouted his stupid theories during the whole travesty of an interview. It was just bullying. Amazingly GA kept his cool. I probably would have screamed at him and then smashed his face in.

Colonel Fabien wrote:That Miguel Sousa Tavares is one of the most irritating men on this planet! He wouldn't let Gonçalo Amaral talk. He kept interrupting and talking right over with that arrogant know-it-all smirk of his plastered on his self-satisfied face. He might as well have put a cardboard cutout of GA in the chair facing him and just spouted his stupid theories during the whole travesty of an interview. It was just bullying. Amazingly GA kept his cool. I probably would have screamed at him and then smashed his face in.

Yes, I heard. Well if nothing else it proves this MST has no manners!

Did Sr Amaral get to say hello at least?

Of course GA kept his cool though. He is a cool customer. Look at what he has put up with already, and he hasnt backed down or run away. Good for him!

Colonel Fabien wrote:That Miguel Sousa Tavares is one of the most irritating men on this planet! He wouldn't let Gonçalo Amaral talk. He kept interrupting and talking right over with that arrogant know-it-all smirk of his plastered on his self-satisfied face. He might as well have put a cardboard cutout of GA in the chair facing him and just spouted his stupid theories during the whole travesty of an interview. It was just bullying. Amazingly GA kept his cool. I probably would have screamed at him and then smashed his face in.

You don't know the man. He would be a match for Ghandi!
Read people's opinions on Twitter. The huge majority have heavily criticised MST.

I know I shouldnt have Colonel Fabian but your comment about probably screaming at him and smashing his face in (MST) did so make me laugh.

Yes I gather Goncalo Amaral is one very cool customer. Bravo.

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2010/03/mccanns-left-portugal-when-cadaver-dogs.html

McCanns left Portugal when the Cadaver Dogs arrived
2 March 2010 | Posted by Joana Morais Leave a Comment
Note to the 'interview' aka Miguel Sousa Tavares monologue - MST performance as a journalist evidenced that he never read the process, that he dos not know anything factual from the investigation made by English and Portuguese authorities to the mysterious disappearence of Madeleine McCann. Like the McCanns he tried to bring Joana Cipriano's case as a parallel to Maddie's, not knowing that the appeal made by our favorite character in this affair, the psychic lawyer Aragão Correia - the same one who bluffed [by his own admission] João Cipriano into signing a fake confession - was dismissed by the STJ - Superior Court of Justice. The 'interview' was abhorrent, Miguel Sousa Tavares made the questions and gave the answers based on his opinions, opinions which as one can read in his column articles are filled with an odd and perhaps personal hatred for the Judiciary Police and Gonçalo Amaral. A significant result of this interview is the vast amount of Portuguese and foreign residents who expressed their utter disgust to the biased conduct of the interviewer in several places, from emailing SIC to leaving comments on the TV program page, or in Facebook - the general consensus is that Miguel Sousa Tavares behaviour was nothing short of shameful to the journalist profession.

The former coordinator of the Judiciary Police Gonçalo Amaral was interviewed this Monday, at night, by Miguel Sousa Tavares in SIC's program "Fire Signals". After the injunction to the book "Maddie- The Truth of the Lie", Gonçalo Amaral speaks of the investigation and launches more suspicions on Kate and Gerry.

"The McCann couple spoke about leaving on the same day that the English dogs arrived in Portugal and after the McCanns knew the capabilities of those dogs. Full stop.", he stated categorically.

continues

Continuation

Despite the insistence by Miguel Sousa Tavares in questioning what difference would the presence in the country of Maddie's parents do to the investigation carried out with the aid of sniffer dogs, Gonçalo Amaral declined to clarify the relationship between the two issues. [actually as you can see in the video Amaral didn't decline, he tried to answer but MST never allowed Mr. Amaral to give an answer without rude interruptions]

The English dogs that were in Praia da Luz detected cadaver odour in the car used by the McCann couple during their stay in the Algarve and one of the dogs signalled blood odour at the boot of the car.

The former Judiciary Police Inspector defended himself several times during the interview with the injunction that was imposed by the court, which obliges him to silence with regards to the thesis that is defended in the book "Maddie - The Truth of the Lie".

In the book, Gonçalo Amaral defends the thesis of the involvement of Kate and Gerry McCann in the disappearance of their daughter in May 2007, from an apartment in a tourist resort in Praia da Luz, Algarve.

As coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ of Portimão, Gonçalo Amaral joined the team of investigators who tried to find out what happened to Madeleine. [this sentence and the bellow one is copied from a Lusa News Agency article already translated ad nauseam in this blog]

Kate e Kerry McCann [sic], who always maintained the position that Maddie was kidnapped, were constituted arguidos [official suspects] in September 2007, but were eventually acquitted in July 2008 for lack of evidence to support the hypothesis advanced by the investigation of the accidental death of the girl. [another mistake by the 'copyist' who wrote this "news piece", an archival dispatch does not acquit anyone it merely archives a process - only a court can acquit or decide on that matter]

The McCanns Innocence [it should be read 'no sense']

"I sleep well rested do you know why?", answered Gonçalo Amaral to Miguel Sousa Tavares when he suggested the scenario of the possible innocence of the McCanns 'versus' the possibility of having lost their daughter and still having to overcome the fact that they are suspects in her disappearance.

"It was the McCanns who conformed with the archival of the process," he said. [Gonçalo Amaral said more, he stated that the McCann couple pressured for the archival]

Insults from the English

At the end of the interview, Gonçalo Amaral, who had brought with him a paper where he had noted down all of the offences to which he was a target from the English media, read them justifying thus the polemical book "as an exercise of his right of Freedom of Expression" : "I was called 148 times of 'torturer'; 45 times of 'bungler'; 37 times of 'incompetent'; 23 times of 'imbecile cop', and 220 times of 'sacked'."


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I thought the dogs arrived July the 30th, the McCanns went to Huelva on August the 3rd, or am I wrong?

http://sic.sapo.pt/programasinformacao/scripts/VideoPlayer.aspx?ch=sinaisdefogo&videoId=%7B9536DF0D-C13F-46F6-A736-005770143AC2%7D

Video

Yes he did talk alot didn't he? Looks like cross between Jonathan Ross and Terry Wogan

Annabel wrote:I thought the dogs arrived July the 30th, the McCanns went to Huelva on August the 3rd, or am I wrong?

Didn't Dr Amaral mean that as soon as the dogs appeared, the McCanns started to talk about leaving?

AnnaEsse wrote:

Annabel wrote:I thought the dogs arrived July the 30th, the McCanns went to Huelva on August the 3rd, or am I wrong?

Didn't Dr Amaral mean that as soon as the dogs appeared, the McCanns started to talk about leaving?

possibly LOL

i bet they never heard of cadaver dogs before and sh at themselves

I thought they didn"t leave PDL until September, two days afer they were made arguidos.