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Francisco Marco Fernandez, Metodo 3 Boss |
■Spanish
Detectives clues are useless for the Maddie Case
■McCann
couple paid investigation with money from the "Find Madeleine" fund
English Police dismisses work done by the private agency "Metodo" 3
hired by the McCann couple
by Oscar Queiros
The investigators of Scotland Yard, who are again working in the case of
Madeleine's disappearance, came to the conclusion that steps taken in
recent years by the Spanish detectives hired by the McCann couple have
helped very little or nothing at all towards the discovery of what
happened to the girl.
The detectives from the "Metodo 3" agency were paid with money from the
"Find Madeleine" fund and the data they collected had always as basis
the assumption of the abduction thesis, defended by the parents of the
child who disappeared in the Algarve on May 3, 2007.
Four members of the English team that are investigating the
disappearance of Madeleine McCann were in Barcelona, at the end of last
year, where they have collected dozens of boxes filled with documents.
Francisco Marco, in charge of "Metodo 3", told [on a Spanish TV
broadcast] that those documents contained "six, seven or eight very
important leads".
At this moment, according to what JN was able to find out, the
investigators are re-analysing every data pertaining to the case and
they have already played down the importance of those "leads". They
have, therefore, chosen to concentrate all their efforts in the process
that was archived in Portugal in July 2008.
It should be recalled, as JN has reported previously, the Judiciary
Police (PJ), trough a team from Oporto's directorate, has been
cooperating with the English in a re-assessment of all the investigation
data.
According to the Spanish newspaper 'El Periodico de Cataluna' [14
December 2011], Scotland Yard seized the opportunity of that Spanish
trip to hold meetings with the Spanish Police and the Guardia Civil.
This was confirmed to JN by Portuguese sources who explained that those
meetings took place due to the keenness to not overlook any avenues of
the investigation, namely the possibility of abduction, even by the
proximity of Portimao with the Spanish border.
Seven friends of the McCann couple to be heard
Scotland Yard wants to listen again the seven friends that were on
holidays with the McCann couple in the Algarve in 2007. That will be
done after the translations of the statements that they gave to the
Judiciary Police are completed and after the making of the "virtual
reconstruction".
in Jornal de Noticias, page 11, March 18, 2012, paper edition |
