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[Video in link above: from 20 mins. Transcript below]
AM- The parents of Maddie McCann, who disappeared from the Algarve
nearly six years ago, took the opportunity of Christmas
celebrations to ask the Portuguese authorities to reopen
the process and to resume the search. Gerry and Kate's
appeal has been published on their internet page on
which they also state that the case still has many
stones to turn. What does this mean?
CA- We don't know, maybe they don't know it either. It's
symptomatic...they didn't ask anything, because there's
a way to ask for something, in this case, of the
reopening of the process we have to, there's the need
to, as we talked a short while ago, whether there is new
evidence, whether there's something that may create the
expectation in the authorities, that there's the
possibility of a positive outcome.
What they did was...they've put on their internet page “ We asked
the authorities”, but they didn't, because to ask means
to send a request to the Prosecutor's Office or to the
Judiaciary Police, and that didn't happen. I think what
we have here it's some sort of deception.
Although inconclusive, I believe this investigation to have been
one of the best police investigations in the last years.
And why? It's the most world-wide publicised
investigation. Three hundred, nearly four hundred Cds
with the process have been distributed....
AM- We can see the McCann's page now...
CA-....Distributed to Media outlets, to lawyers, and the English
Police has six investigators analysing the work of the
Portuguese Police since the process's been closed in
order to find new leads.. They've found zilch. Till now.
They found nothing that we could have done that might
have led us to a different result, or diligences that
we...
AM- The McCanns imply that the English Police are looking at the
investigation from another perspective, is that so?...
CA- Maybe there is a different look, but they haven't seen
anything, or, if they did they haven't talked about it
yet. What's been done until now; in Portugal we received
information from other Police forces, in that way, under
those diligences....here we go, the exchange of
information is done immediately and the result was
always negative. And the English Police, as well as the
McCanns start with a serious mistake which is the
photofit portrait, that we've talked about already
(another case); they keep searching for Maddie with the
face she had six years ago...Ana, you know, you are a
mother of young children as I am, six years in a child's
life it's an enormity.
AM- She's not a four year old anymore and she's today, eventually,
a ten year old girl, a preadolescent...
CA- Ten years old, a different hair-cut, different features....When
there is a sighting of Maddie, the child seen in Morocco
or in the USA, it is similar to the child who's
disappeared...
AM- Now we are looking at a progression image that the MCCanns have
done...not this one, but that one with the blue dress.
CA- This is a progression image that an investigation's
agency has done but the McCanns don't accept it...
AM- It might be far from reality...
CA- The question is that their daughter wouldn't have those
features today, and that's the difficulty here; it is
not a photo fit but an aging progression photo, let's
say...who invented this programme tells us to be
possible, from a photo since the moment we are born, to
age that photo and see how we will look like ten,
twenty, thirty years later...this is totally outdated.
We've done already several experiments such as; to age a
photo from when we were fifteen to nowadays age...
AM- And you'll always get different...
CA- There was an aging progression that I couldn't accept; I'm much
more handsome now than on that aged photo...
AM- That's good!
CA- It shows us how this can be misleading. We are talking about
technical advances, but sometimes technical doesn't
advance as much as we would like, and doesn't achieve
what we would like it to achieve, so we must have a
certain kind of sensitivity...I think what we have here
is that the McCanns and the English authorities are
spending an awesome amount of money and the results are
nil. The investigation has already cost eight times more
than the Portuguese Investigation, with many fewer less
results...Look, when they say on their internet page
that “We have in Portugal an investigation team” and
that means a Communication Agency and a spokesperson,
this is a mistake. The investigation's processes, the
criminal investigation won't be solved in public fora,
nor in newspapers or on television.
AM- Do you think the McCanns are ….
CA- I think there is a strategy...
AM- There's a strategy for public opinion?
CA- They abandoned the process in a clearly fragile position,
clearly fragile.. because there's the question, looked
at before, of the reconstruction of the night, something
they refused to do, and the reconstruction, as we've
seen before, would tell us where they were at the moment
of the crime to see if what they are saying... and this
has nothing to do with suspicion...look, to know if from
the place where they were, if they could control the
apartment, the window. According to what they
say...we've done the reconstruction it's impossible from
that place to see the apartment from where the little
girl disappeared.
As the other one who said not to have seen the GNR's officers, and
then it was proved that he saw them (another case)...
So, a reconstruction would be needed and they refused to
do it. More than that, they refused to give any kind of
statement to the Portuguese authorities from the moment
they were considered suspects.
I would act differently; if the Police would find him, my son, they
could even arrest me as far as they would bring me back
my boy. When one keeps in silence, which is usually the
arguido last resort not to be caught... but if it is our
son, we'll get slightly more shocked about the
situation.
So, I think the McCanns left Portugal in a very fragile state in
the eyes of Portugal and the world, everybody understood
that, and there's another situation, too; the fact that
they are in a certain way suspects of something that
might have happened, so they want forcefully to open or
reopen the process in order to demonstrate that the
child is alive, that Maddie is alive. I'm convinced that
if the process will ever be reopened we'll never hear of
the McCanns again, but this is just my opinion...
AM- Very well, let's wait. The McCanns won't stop this process for
sure, at least this internet page. |
