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La Verdad
De La Mentira
DETECTIVE CHIEF Inspector
Gonçalo Amaral is the policeman who led
the search for
Madeleine McCann, if in fact the poor
mite was ever really searched for on that night of 3rd May 2007. Despite
the child being left in an unlocked
apartment with her two younger
siblings,
out of view of her parents who were
dining more than a hundred metres away,
her parents insisted she had been abducted.
In my own book,
Vanished – The Truth About the Disappearance of Madeleine
McCann (John Blake 2008), I voice my suspicions that the McCann’s put
forward the abduction theory because they feared a police prosecution
for the abandonment of a minor. DCI Amaral agrees but far from believing
my conclusions that Madeleine wandered out of the unlocked apartment of
her own volition and was carried off by Romanian gipsies to be sold for
begging, Amaral believes she died an accidental death in the apartment
and her death was covered up by her parents.
I find that hard to believe and Amaral’s attempts to convince us of his
conclusions strike me as a cynical assumption based on an immense
dislike for the
McCanns and for the misguided attempts
by them and members of their holiday
group to mislead the investigation
regarding how the group’s children were left and checked on. However,
one can’t deny the police inspector and his team unearthed some
startling facts, including that about a member of the group that could
be contrived as playing a sinister part in Madeleine’s disappearance.
Clearly DCI Amaral, who retired in order to write the book, has a
policeman’s nose that twitches at every scent, even putting forward the
ludicrous assertion that the McCann’s used a
hire car, rented 23 days after
Madeleine’s disappearance, to remove her body to a place of clandestine
burial. However, other than a few similarly bizarre assertions that seem
to deliberately overlook established fact – for example, Amaral insists
that
cadaver dogs
have been successful in 200 cases without mentioning that given the
scientifically declared success rate is between 66 and 69%, it must mean
they have proved unsuccessful in a further 100. This is, of course, a
policeman’s logic and not mine but his conviction is unshakeable that
Madeleine died in apartment 5A on 3rd May 2007. For myself I believe
that every fact must be considered before a conclusion is reached and
for that reason I recommend it to RTN readers who can handle Spanish.
The book was banned from sale by the Portuguese Court following a plea
by the McCann’s
lawyers
in September 2009 but was lifted following a successful
appeal by Amaral on 19th October 2010.
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Author: Gonçalo Amaral
Publisher: Esquilo (Spanish language paperback)
Price: 13.50€
ISBN: 978 989 8092 40 3
Reviewed by Danny Collins |
