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The former Judiciary Police Inspector
Goncalo Amaral
considered this Tuesday the Court of Appeal decision in
overturning the ban, which forbade the sale of the book ‘Maddie
- The Truth of the Lie’, to be “strengthening for the Portuguese
democracy”.
“The book is an exercise of Citizenship
and of Freedom of Expression. With this decision made by the Appeals
Court, it was the Portuguese democracy who has won, since the ban on the
sale of the book was unconstitutional” said Goncalo Amaral to the news
agency Lusa, adding that he looks forward for the Court of Appeal Judges
to annul the decision made by the Civil Court of Lisbon, after the
injunction [against the book] was filed by
Madeleine McCann
parents.
The former PJ inspector still ranked as “very important” the Court of
Appeal decision for the two pending legal actions brought by the parents
of the English missing girl in 2007, in the Algarve, although no date
has yet been set for the trial.
In the civil action,
Kate and Gerry
McCann claim for 1.2 million euros
for defamation, while in the other action Goncalo Amaral is accused
[this second claim was done in January, during the injunction hearing
lunch break] of breach of secrecy.
*from here on is pure copy/paste of the Lusa
article also published by Público and translated
here
The decision to annul the prohibition of the book 'Maddie
- The Truth of the Lie' and the video with the same title [the
documentary title is ' Maddie:
What Lies Beneath the Truth'],
based on a documentary aired on TVI [it's the same
doc], was reported
this Tuesday to Lusa news agency by a judicial source.
With the decision to cancel the prohibition of sale of the book 'Maddie
- The Truth of the Lie' and the video with the same title [redundancy],
both can be re-marketed and Goncalo Amaral who defends in the book the
thesis of Kate and Gerry McCann involvement in their daughter's
disappearance - in May 2007, from an apartment located at a tourist
resort in the Algarve - can now speak publicly on the case.
The ban was provisionally decreed on September 9, 2009; and in the main
action, the McCann family claimed the protection of their rights,
freedoms and guarantees.
Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, in an
apartment in a resort
of
Praia da Luz,
where she was on vacation with her parents and her
siblings [the twins].
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Correio da Manha 19.10.2010 |
