McCanns: The guilt of the McCanns ?

Question

We read that a new book published in Portugal highlights the 'guilt' of Kate and Gerry McCann in the disapearance of their daughter. The book, ‘A culpa dos McCann’, claims “This story did not begin in the Ocean Club, but in London where the official truth was conspired and established: an English girl was kidnapped in the Algarve.”

Isnt it about time that the McCanns, the rest of their child neglecting friends and the British government came clean about this whole sordid saga ?

Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/article552486.ece

Answer 1

Yes, there is a book by that name which will be launched in Portugal on Wednesday next week.
The basis of the book is not what The Sun is saying. It goes primarily through the entire investigation by the PJ-GNR.
" The book is not a libellous accusation of the McCanns. It reconstructs scenarios, evidence, puts that evidence in correlation and reveals them. The book does not judge nor pre-judges that evidence. It simply makes it public. The book also interviews criminologist José Manuel Anes who makes an impartial exam of the investigation conducted by the PJ-GNR..."
So the book is not what The Sun is making it out to be.
If you can understand Portuguese or can access a good translator on the net, here is the link:
http://sol.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Cultura/Interior.aspx?content_id=69942

Answer 2

Lets see ports and airports are constantly monitored by CCTV and have very high security, she would have been spotted. Considering Portugal has thousands of marinas and a massively long unmonitored border with Spain which is probably about two hours away by car or train there was nothing the police could do. By the time the McCanns alerted the Portuguese authorities Madeline may have been in Spain and the following day in France. The delay in notifying the police cost them any hope of the Portuguese authorities being able to prevent Madelines movement. Now as for laws, I'm not an expert on the area but I don't think Ms. McCann is either and considering there are 27 nations in the EU with 27 different legal codes, I can be pretty confident in saying she is talking a load of bull. What is she doing dragging her children around the world when she should be comforting them and trying to find her missing child.

Answer 3

Adam I am not going to make a comment on the book, interesting as it is. Of greater interest is the fact that `The Sun` is printing a story that appears to cast doubt over the veracity of the Mc canns claims. Since this story broke `The Times`, sister paper of the Sun has had nothing but praise for the Mc Canns. Me thinks some of the journalists in the media have had access to information about tyhis case that currently would be career terminating to publish. But the time for their publication will come and i think it is getting close.

Answer 4

Wish we knew and had an end to it.

Red Chrome's link translated by babelfish -

"All the steps of the inquiry appear in this basic document, that constitutes a vision tranquillized on a colossal teia of information, maneuvers, certainties and conjecturas that continue to feed the social communication of the whole world", it relates a note introductory of the workmanship, that has preface of the old inspector of the PJ Francisco Underbrush Flowers. "the book is not an accusatory libel. It reconstructs evidences, it places them in correlation and it discloses them. It does not file a suit. But it gives notice ", it writes Underbrush Flowers in its preface, intitled In the viscera of the mystery. The workmanship includes, also, "a current and unknown" interview to the criminal attorney Jose Manuel Anes, who "makes a impartial examination to the inquiry lead for the Judiciary Policy". The book appears in a height where the paradeiro of the British girl Madeleine MacCann, missing person the 03 of May in the Beach of the Light, Algarve, continues unknown and to the initial hypothesis of abduction the evidences compel the one that if consider, also, the thesis of its death. "That the Maddie happened? To who the guilt of its disappearance fits? That inquiry was made to find ", they are questions that the workmanship tries to answer face to a mystery that if it transformed into world-wide a mediático fenómeno. "the personages of the book are real, the told facts are exactos and the descriptions are rigorous", are read in a note of spreading of the workmanship, with about 160 pages. Manuel Catarino, author of the book, is head of redacção of the Post office of Manhã (CM) and its career as journalist, initiated in 1986, is on to the great news article on the crime. It passed for periodicals the Day, European, Such and Which, 24 Hours, Focus magazine, collaborated in the "Great News article" and collaborates in the magazine Saturday. The presentation of the book will be in charge of Underbrush Flowers and of Octávio Ribeiro, director of the cm.

Answer 5

Yes of course it is but if this random sample of opinions re the case are representative of the public as a whole the Macs, government, and all can afford to stick their fingers up at the rest of us and there is no chance of the book being published in this country , so they're safe enough there.The confidence of those that do think that the MacCanns and friends have a case to answer must lie with the joint investigative police force, as far as i'm aware it is still an ongoing inquiry which hopefully will decide whether there is a case to answer.

Answer 6

The McCanns are innocent.

Answer 7

I must get Kate and Gerry round to do my place, It's a tip!

Answer 8

Greetings to you Adam,never agreed with you but always had respect for you,have a lovely Christmas in your part of the world

Answer 9

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Now that's a made up story. Just like all the rubbish that The Sun and you make up.

Answer 10

I would say-don't put authors on a pedestal
This author is capitalising on the event to make money
Surely you don't believe everything that is said about this subject?
On the other hand I know you would like to see them in jail!
That's fair-there are many opinions on this case