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"Political Influence demands an Inquiry"

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX NEWS DECEMBER 2010
Original Source: Correio da Manha : 15 December 2010
By Paulo Marcelino / J.F. / R.R. with agencies
15 December 2010

Thanks to Joana Morais for translation

Gerry and Kate McCann were constituted arguidos on September 7, 2007 and then returned home

Maddie: WikiLeaks reveals the conversation between the British and North-American ambassadors

Goncalo Amaral, the former coordinator of the investigation to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Praia da Luz, on the night of May 3, 2007, is not surprised with the Wikileaks disclosure of the cable sent by the US ambassador in Portugal, Alfred Hoffman Jr, to Washington.



In that letter, of September 28, 2007, the diplomat reported on a conversation with his British counterpart, Alexander W. Ellis, in which the latter said that the "British police had obtained evidence against the McCanns". The former coordinator of the Judiciary Police admits that he felt "political pressures during the investigation" and is now asking for the creation of a commission of inquiry in the Portuguese Republic Assembly, alleging that political interference in a criminal investigation undermines the Rule of Law.

"There was political influence as to the direction of the investigation and in the process archival," said Goncalo Amaral to CM. The former coordinator of the investigation - removed from it at its final stage - further adds: "Before the passivity, and almost complicity of the government [Portuguese] still in office, it is imperative, within the Portuguese Republic Assembly, to create a commission of inquiry, in order to investigate the influences and political manoeuvring which has led to the discontinuation of the investigation and to the process archival. At stake is the Rule of Law."

As to the disclosure that it would have been the British police to have gathered evidence against the couple,
Gerry and Kate McCann (the missing girl's parents), Amaral is peremptory: "They didn't gather any evidence". The former coordinator acknowledges the good cooperation of the English police officers sent to the Algarve at the time, but adds that "whomever was in England had other ideas."

And he gives examples: "The English police even held back the statement made by Katherine Gaspar about a potential paedophile [David Payne] in the group on holiday in Luz". And he recalls that David ended up being questioned in England without the PJ's inspectors present. It should also be remembered that the credit information requested by the Police never received a reply. And Amaral also says that "there are strong suspicions" that the FSS lab results in England were manipulated. And that they were well known at the date of the cable. The laboratory conclusions devalued the evidence that was found in the apartment and in the couple's car by the British
dogs, specialized in sniffing blood and cadaver odour.

SCENT OF DEATH

They were first offered in May and then provided with some reservation back in August 2007, the dogs 'Eddie' and 'Keela' signalled the cadaver odour and found blood traces in the apartment from where Maddie disappeared and inside the trunk of the car rented by the McCanns.

ABDUCTION WITHOUT EVIDENCE

Goncalo Amaral says that there is no evidence of abduction in the process other than the statements of Jane Tanner, who was on holiday with the McCanns in Praia da Luz. "She recognized several people as the perpetrators of the abduction and she lied blatantly," said the former PJ coordinator.

"I FELT PRESSURED": Goncalo Amaral, former coordinator of the Portuguese Judiciary Police

Correio da Manha – Did you feel political pressures during the investigation?

Goncalo Amaral – I did, yes. I was confronted, by way of the national PJ directory, with a question that coincided with the thought of the Attorney General's Office, at the time, that not all processes have a conclusion.

- How do you explain the political interference?

– The initiative was started by the McCanns, through their family contacts, in order to defend themselves.

– Does the cable disclosure surprise you?

– No. I only hope that the Portuguese Justice hears both ambassadors. They are potential witnesses.

COUPLE CREATE A NEW INVESTIGATION TEAM

A new team of investigators hired by the McCanns and constructed of Portuguese and English elements, headed by a former British policeman is already in the Algarve according to TVI. The couple allege to be interested in reviewing the constant sightings that appear in the process. But Goncalo Amaral dismisses them: "These parents aren't searching for their daughter. They only care about their own image." And he argues that, otherwise they would ask for the reopening of the process, as he himself defends. "Just a letter. They would only and solely have to pay for the price of the stamp," quips the former coordinator of the investigation.

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