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With journalists here and in
UK busily studying the
76-page text released
yesterday by the Supreme
Court - explaining why it
dismissed the appeal for
damages lodged by the
parents of Madeleine McCann
- blog writers are already
ahead of them, uncovering
salient points that blow
even further ill wind into
this almost decade long
mystery.
It should be explained that
the Textusa blog is one that
subscribes to the theory
expounded in Gonçalo
Amaral’s controversial book
“Maddie: The Truth of the
Lie”: the theory that
three-year-old Madeleine
died by accident in
apartment 5a of Luz Ocean
Club, in May of 2007 and
that everything that has
happened since has been part
of a cover-up of “unseen
proportions”
But Textusa’s convictions
aside, what the blog has
uncovered from page 68 of
the Supreme Court ruling is
potential dynamite.
In simple terms, it blows a
hole in the McCanns’ legal
argument that they have been
absolved of any blame (or
are, as the text suggests ‘inocentados’)
in their daughter’s
disappearance.
According to the couple’s
appeal against Amaral’s
victory last year (click
here) not only are they
completely innocent and have
been absolved of any blame -
due to the initial archiving
of the case by the
Portuguese authorities -
they should have the right
to benefit from the
presumption of innocence.
However, the Supreme Court
judges have said that
archiving per se should not
be confused with being
considered innocent.
In fact, archiving can
always be undone, the judges
explain, in the event that
“new elements of proof” come
to light.
Says Textusa: “Very clearly
and very explicitly the
court is saying that the
McCanns have NOT been
cleared.
“Note, it has not said the
McCanns were guilty. It is
just saying that they have
not been considered by the
Portuguese Justice System as
innocent.
“We do believe that this is
historic and rebates
definitely all those saying
that the couple was cleared
by the Portuguese justice”,
adds the blog.
As the 10th anniversary of
Madeleine McCann’s
disappearance approaches,
and media outlets are
described as bidding
hundreds of thousands to get
an interview with the
missing girl’s parents, this
tortuously-worded judgement
coming from Portugal’s
highest court is certain to
set tongues wagging for
weeks to come.
For now, it is only in
Portuguese - but campaigning
blogsite Projecto Justiça
Gonçalo Amaral (click here -
which has been supporting
former PJ coordinator Amaral
throughout this eight-year
legal battle - is due to
release a translation in
English within the next few
days.
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