GONC MOUTHS OFF - YET ANOTHER BOOK PLANNED, LOL

http://www.algarve123.com/en/Articles/2-1403/%E2%80%9CJustice_works_in_Silence%E2%80%9D

Justice works in Silence”
His life has been ripped apart since he led the police investigation into the Millennium’s greatest mystery, and came into legal confrontation with Kate and Gerry McCann. Gonçalo Amaral has lost his family, his business, his assets and the income from his controversial book that states all the reasons why he believes three-year-old Madeleine McCann died in apartment 5A in Praia da Luz back in May of 2007. Now, four-and-a-half years down the line, he faces another hurdle: a trial for defamation of the McCanns – due to start in Lisbon in February – in which the couple are claiming 1.2 million euros in damages. Does he think he can win? “Of course”, he says. This is the man whose maxim is “justice works in silence”. He still believes the case of the world’s most famous missing person will be solved. And he told Algarve123 what he thinks is needed to get there…

You wouldn’t miss him in a crowd. Gonçalo Amaral, 52, is strikingly tall with a penchant for hats. He was wearing a long black coat, a black fedora and a bright red scarf when we met him on the terrace of Casa Inglesa in Portimão. He looked much more like an intellectual than a former police officer, but these days his life is spent largely writing - an activity he’s come to love as much as the police work that used to fill his days.
Our first question: “How’s life?” elicited the reply “Bad!” so any further niceties went by the board.
What Amaral has always maintained is that the McCanns’ zeal for litigation “will not bring their daughter back”. He claims various legal suits against him, and a number of other Portuguese public figures who have verbalised “anti-McCann-story” sentiments, are totally out of keeping with the Catholic faith so fervently embraced by Madeleine’s mother Kate.
“Is it Catholic to hold sentiments of vengeance? To seek to destroy a family as mine has been destroyed?” he asks.
“This litigation will carry a heavy price – but I have faith that the mystery will be resolved. “Even if I “disappear” in the process - as Kate McCann has written that she wishes I would in her book - I have a daughter and lots of friends who will make sure justice is done”.
It may sound theatrical - but Amaral is not about theatre. He is about truth – hard facts, solid investigative work.
“The case has to be re-opened, and I have faith that it will be,” he said. “It will either be when this current “procurador” leaves, or when the current chief of police leaves. It’s not something I am pushing for - even if I could - it’s just something I feel certain will happen. And when it does, the first, most essential thing to be done will be a reconstruction of that very first night – the night Madeleine disappeared. Because that’s what happened: she literally disappeared! The reconstruction will have to involve all the parties: the McCanns and their friends. You see, there are so many inconsistencies in these people’s statements that a reconstruction will very quickly highlight where they have not told the truth”.
An example of the power of reconstructions came only weeks ago in Spain where a father claimed his two children were abducted from a park. A police reconstruction quickly proved that the father had never taken his children to the park: witnesses who had seen him arrive in his car but hadn’t noticed the children in the back seat, were surprised to discover that in the reconstruction the child-sized dummies in the back were clearly visible. The children’s father is now in jail – although the children are still missing.
Amaral explained that when Madeleine disappeared police didn’t organise a reconstruction in Praia da Luz “because there were so many journalists on the ground” – and once the heat had died down, “the McCanns refused. They said any reconstruction should be made by actors – but the whole reason for reconstructions is to use the people involved, and see where their stories don’t add up!”
Going back to that first night is logical: the initial 48-hours after any disappearance are crucial. They can literally mean the difference between life and death – but in Madeleine’s case, Amaral is convinced of the latter. The theory that has led to his prosecution by the McCanns for defamation is clearly set out in his book “A Verdade de Mentira” (The Truth of the Lie) – banned from sale in 2009, and then “released” by the Appeals Court a year later. We say “released” because the books were actually never returned to publishers Guerra & Paz, and thus they and Amaral have had nothing to sell…
“It’s another part of the whole plot to assassinate my civil position,” Amaral says matter-of-factly. “I’ve been left with no chances; no way of paying my debts; liens on my property. I’ve had to move away from my family in order to protect them. My marriage, well, it’s not so good. Not good at all, really. My life seems to be all about divorce…”
So how does he find the strength to move forwards?
“Well, I put the McCanns in a metaphorical box and I am not really thinking too much about the trial in February. I think I will win, and then they will appeal – but I have to have a path. I want to open another consultancy. I had one when I left the police force, but that was destroyed when the McCanns went after me over “A Verdade de Mentira”.
So that’s one thing - and the other is writing. I have recently brought out a new book: “Vidas sem Defesa” about missing children cases in Portugal, and I have another one almost ready (I am not going to tell you what it is about!). After that, I would like to take police “mysteries” and study them and write stories, not novels; stories based on facts to show what I believe really happened. There’s a real lack of books of this type.”
So he’s not angry over the agonies and frustrations he’s endured from what came from essentially doing his job?
“I have my anger well-guarded. No feelings for revenge. Like I say, they will pay for what they have done to me and my family – but through the courts. Even after everything that has happened, I still have faith in the Portuguese justice system”.
And does he have any clues as to what catapulted the Madeleine case into the stratosphere of media attention? Why did the McCanns receive so much help from the British authorities right from the very beginning? And why were they and the so-called Tapas 7 never taken to task for child neglect – considering that they all left their children alone at night during the ill-fated holiday?
“Ah, now there we’re getting into politics – and quite honestly, those are questions for the British public to ask. I don’t have to have theories about them. My job was to find Madeleine”.
A job handed to him nearly five years ago – and one that he will never forget.

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And a job he was kicked off, because of his own incompetence and disgraceful behaviour. Not that he's bitter or anything.....

What a nasty, snide piece of work that article is!

Amaral explained that when Madeleine disappeared police didn’t organise a reconstruction in Praia da Luz “because there were so many journalists on the ground”

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Duh!! So, what's the point of a reconstruction without media involvement, then?

“Ah, now there we’re getting into politics – and quite honestly, those are questions for the British public to ask. I don’t have to have theories about them.



This, from the man who's never done raving about UK government interference getting him sacked?

He has "a daughter" who will make sure he gets justice

lost in translation or is Morais his love child?

I'd love to know who wrote that piece of dreck...

He looked much more like an intellectual than a former police officer, but these days his life is spent largely writing - an activity he’s come to love as much as the police work that used to fill his days.

Sounds like smiffy or Redsquare Roberts, or some similar adoring fan. One thing Gonc could never, ever be is intellectual - though standards are none too high in Team Gonc.

“It’s another part of the whole plot to assassinate my civil position,” Amaral says matter-of-factly. “I’ve been left with no chances; no way of paying my debts; liens on my property. I’ve had to move away from my family in order to protect them. My marriage, well, it’s not so good. Not good at all, really. My life seems to be all about divorce…”

Lovely Sofa been throwing his clothes at him in bars again, has she?

bb1 wrote:“It’s another part of the whole plot to assassinate my civil position,” Amaral says matter-of-factly. “I’ve been left with no chances; no way of paying my debts; liens on my property. I’ve had to move away from my family in order to protect them. My marriage, well, it’s not so good. Not good at all, really. My life seems to be all about divorce…”

Lovely Sofa been throwing his clothes at him in bars again, has she?

she's a right classy chick that one And seeing his millions going down the Swanee would have made her go right off him

“Even if I “disappear” in the process - as Kate McCann has written that she wishes I would in her book - I have a daughter and lots of friends who will make sure justice is done”.

ROFLMAO

He been watching The Sopranos again, then?

Gonçalo Amaral, 52, is strikingly tall

He's what? How can a tub of rancid lard be 'strikingly tall?' Maybe 'as wide as he is tall' is what was was meant, and got lost in the translation? LL

,” Amaral says matter-of-factly. “I’ve been left with no chances; no way of paying my debts; liens on my property. I’ve had to move away from my family in order to protect them. My marriage, well, it’s not so good. Not good at all, really. My life seems to be all about divorce…”

More like they have had him moved out for thier own safety,
sorry got no sympathy for Sofia.

Oh that would be his eldest daughter also Sofia, She's a lawyer I believe.

Lamplighter wrote:

Gonçalo Amaral, 52, is strikingly tall

He's what? How can a tub of rancid lard be 'strikingly tall?' Maybe 'as wide as he is tall' is what was was meant, and got lost in the translation? LL

I know; the spirit of Barbara Cartland seems to have visited whoever wrote that tosh

Surely Sofia won't leave him, after all he did pay for her facelift?

bb1 wrote:

Lamplighter wrote:

Gonçalo Amaral, 52, is strikingly tall

He's what? How can a tub of rancid lard be 'strikingly tall?' Maybe 'as wide as he is tall' is what was was meant, and got lost in the translation? LL

I know; the spirit of Barbara Cartland seems to have visited whoever wrote that tosh

Did I not read that he had had to move out to stop the McCanns having a right to the house? Someone suggested the McCanns were insisting he got divorced or something.

What I did note was that he was looking to the future and seems to want to become some kind of pretendy profiler of old cases like the notorious "professional" who we are told will be meeting him around the time of his trial.

Did I not read that he had had to move out to stop the McCanns having a right to the house? Someone suggested the McCanns were insisting he got divorced or something.

I think that what was actually suggested to Gonc and wife was for his wife to take steps to protect her half of their assets. Of course everything will get turned around by certain folks.......

He has forgotten to mention a few minor details, greenink - like his own brother having his goods seized over unpaid debts, the Portuguese taxman nabbing a chunk of his pension over unpaid back taxes, the banks being none too amused by his failure to pay his mortgage....there is a long, long trail of chaos behind Gonc, none of which has anything at all to do with the McCanns.

He was the best part of HALF A MILLION euros in debt in 2007, which Morais and co dismissed with an airy, Oh, lots of people have debts these days.

Lily's right, it was a perfectly normal legal stratagem to protect his wife's interests, which got spun out of all recognition into the McCanns demanding Gonc and Lovely Sofa divorce.

That was when Sofa made her curiously refreshed TV appearance, I seem to recall?

After reading the article again, this made me laugh....

You wouldn’t miss him in a crowd. Gonçalo Amaral, 52, is strikingly tall with a penchant for hats.

Whoever wrote that must be extremely short.

So, do we know if that might be Spudders, Smiffy or someone else?

Just how vertically-challenged do you have to be to think Gonc is 'strikingly tall'? Grenville towers over him:

ProfilerPatB PAT BROWN
Ex- Det. Amaral interview on the upcoming #McCann libel case (Feb) in Portugal. algarve123.com/en/Articles/2-…


Yes, we know, dear - do try to keep up!

bb1 wrote:Just how vertically-challenged do you have to be to think Gonc is 'strikingly tall'? Grenville towers over him:

I can't stop laughing about it, Bonny.

HB, my sides are hurting

Every time I see Grenville, I cannot help but see a Walrus.

crazytony wrote:Every time I see Grenville, I cannot help but see a Walrus.

I like this bit, too:


“The case has to be re-opened, and I have faith that it will be,” he said. “It will either be when this current “procurador” leaves, or when the current chief of police leaves

So, Gonc knows better than, not only than the current - AG? PP? - but he also knows better than the head of the PJ? Yeah, sure, in a parallel dimension

He and B$own should get on like a house on fire, they seem to have a lot in common.

bb1 wrote:Just how vertically-challenged do you have to be to think Gonc is 'strikingly tall'? Grenville towers over him:

If this is the size of the interviewer

Mf, if it's male, then I think you are on the right track. If female, ditto.