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The English police is investigating the disappearance of Maddie McCann
without the assistance of Portuguese authorities. This information has
been confirmed to TVI24 by the [Portuguese] Republic's Attorney General.
Three Scotland Yard investigators were in Barcelona between the 23rd and
the 25th of November, following leads in the disappearance of the
English child that disappeared from an apartment in Praia da Luz, in the
Algarve, in 2007. The presence of investigators in Spain may indicate
that the child was taken across the border. But the Scotland Yard did
not contact the Portuguese investigators.
«The Scotland Yard did not have any contact with the Attorney General's
Office about that issue. In the process, there is no knowledge of the
existence of any new data/facts about Maddie's disappearance. The
process will only be reopened under the regulations of article 279 of
the Penal Process Code, which is to say, if any new elements appear that
invalidate the basis for the archiving», the Attorney General's Office
states in a written reply to TVI24.
The case was archived by the Attorney General's Office. Approximately
one year ago, Pinto Monteiro [the Attorney General] asserted that he
would only reopen it if new data appeared.
In May last year, the Scotland Yard reopened the process after the
personal intervention of the United Kingdom's prime minister, David
Cameron.
It is not known whether the British investigators have discovered any
new fact that the Portuguese police failed to notice.
In August this year, the Scotland Yard confirmed to [Portuguese news]
agency Lusa that they travelled to Portugal in order to discuss the
Maddie case with Portuguese investigators. At that time, the Judiciary
Police (PJ) and the Attorney General said they did not know about that
information.
in: TVI24, 06.12.2011 |
