Portuguese police talk to Star to attack Scotland Yard

Absolutely shocking behaviour by the Portuguese police! After everything that has been said, after all their lectures to the Yard about speaking to the media, they themselves go running to a UK tabloid to attack British cops!

Well, it would be shocking - if it turns out to be anything other than yet more sh*t-stirring by Team Gonzo pretending to be Sources in the PJ yet again.

Gonzo and his cohorts must be desperate, to want to make the PJ look bad.

You are being understated in saying desperate, Bonny.

Well, after everything the Portuguese police have said recently about the media, how likely is it that one of them would be telling the Star what they are doing and saying?

We've been here before with Portugal and Bullsh*t from Police Sources. No doubt the Gonzo fan club will lap it up, though, it will give them hope.

I do hope that the police find the troublemakers who are behind this.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/378322/Digging-is-a-waste-of-time-Portuguese-police-slam-Madeleine-McCann-dig

'Digging is a waste of time': Portuguese police slam Madeleine McCann dig

PORTUGUESE police think a British effort to solve the Madeleine McCann mystery is a waste of time.



Detectives from Scotland Yard want to dig up land in the Algarve resort where Madeleine vanished seven years ago.

The Brits fear she was abducted by an Algarve sex fiend who had targeted foreign girls before.

But local detectives are now said to believe that her disappearance was “unique” and nothing to do with the pervert behind the assaults.

A Portuguese cold case review team persuaded bosses to reopen their archived Madeleine inquiry last year after discovering similarities between her case and five sex attacks by a mystery man.

They looked into the background of a now dead immigrant burglar, still thought to be among their suspects.

But Portuguese officers told a local paper yesterday that evidence gathered over the last six months had weakened the possibility of a connection.

They suspect a foreigner who has now left the ­ country snatched Madeleine.

They fear she was killed and her body smuggled out of the country.

The theory signals Portuguese police think excavations near the Praia da Luz complex will be a waste of time.

Local residents also think the digs are futile. One elderly British expat believed the Met police were “trying to prove a point” and “keep their jobs”.

She added: “I wonder what the British taxpayer thinks? After all, they are paying for it!”

The woman said locals were “mad” and “feel it (the digging)could ruin our tourism”.

She said: “The resort was busy over Easter and although it’s quietened down we’re heading into the main holiday season.

“I can’t imagine any family with young children would want to see officers digging up the ground.”

Madeleine, who disappeared from Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, would be due to celebrate her 11th birthday tomorrow.


Her parents are clinging to the hope that the new probes lead to her being found alive.

Mum Kate has pledged: “We love you and we’re waiting for you and we’re never going to give up.”

Tomorrow Kate and husband Gerry, along with their nine-year-old twins Sean and Amelie, will join family members and friends for a low-key party at their home in Rothley, Leics.

They will say prayers and light candles wishing for Madeleine’s safe return.

Former GP Kate, 46, and heart doctor Gerry, 45, will also lay gifts in their daughter’s bedroom which has remained unchanged since she disappeared.

Kate paid tribute to her ­daughter to mark last week’s seventh anniversary, saying: “We miss you every day, as we did that very first day.”

She added: “I can’t believe it! It’s a long time. You think – 11, she’s due to start big school in September.”

Last week a team of Met ­detectives, led by Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, inset, visited Praia da Luz and are now studying aerial photos taken from an air force helicopter ahead of any digging.

No date has been set for the digs, which are expected to be preceded by searches involving ground-penetrating radar and sniffer dogs.

Local residents also think the digs are futile. One elderly British expat believed the Met police were “trying to prove a point” and “keep their jobs”.

The ex-pats are a charmless, self-centred bunch, aren't they? I wonder how many of them are members of hate sites.

Indeed, Bonny. We might even guess their ID's if we cared to.   

So, what does this piece tell us?

1. That the ex-pats are a pretty nasty lot, that want attacks on children, and the abduction of children, swept under the carpet so they can carry on wringing as much money as possible out of naive holidaymakers.

2. That despite their shrieks of outrage about the Yard, certain elements in the Portuguese police are running their mouths off to the media and undermining the investigation.

One elderly British expat believed the Met police were “trying to prove a point” and “keep their jobs”.

Now that isn't a stupid comment is it?  Keep their jobs?  So long as there are criminals like abductors and such, they will have jobs.

Ex-pats are, of course, in the minority.

it was almost impossible to have a body buried without being noticed due to the fact of being summer season with tourists during all day and night in the streets of Praia da Luz or in the whole Algarve.

extensive searches happened in the early stages for days, weeks, months, and nothing relevant was found.

Don't say that Pedro. The haters think their heart's desire is in sight.

Agree, Pedro, I would say it's virtually impossible - surely not even Gonzo could be that incompetent?

Yes, it's been revolting to see the Amaral supporters drooling with excitement at the thought of a child's death.

When you think they can't get any worse, they sure do surprise you.

I see from Myths that Shrimpton is, again, the hot topic on the Morais case file forum:

http://stopthemyths.prophpbb.com/post231265.html#p231265

Veterans Today

Columnist
Michael Shrimpton

Sunday, May 11th, 2014 | Posted by Michael Shrimpton

[Snipped for relevance - full article in link above]

Madeleine McCann

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Madeleine McCann

Official willingness to sacrifice children where Germany is involved is something I’ve come across before. The true and shocking story of the DVD’s kidnap of Madeleine McCann, and police and governmental indifference once the German and EU angles were grasped, is set out in Spyhunter.

Appendix Eight is a redacted copy of the report we prepared at Gerard Group in 2007 for the Joint Intelligence Committee. We knew where she was, the intelligence having been verified by satellite, but Whitehall left her to her fate, the poor little thing.

The Metropolitan Police have been wasting their time and everybody else’s this week running around the Algarve digging up bits of land. Unsurprisingly, the Portuguese authorities, who aren’t completely stupid and know that Madeleine was murdered in 2008, have refused access to Portuguese nationals, who very obviously were not involved.

The Met operation, frankly, is a cruel hoax on the McCann family, designed to distract media attention away from callous official criminality and negligence back in 2007. I am not pulling my punches on this one. I was sickened by the way in which Madeleine was abandoned to a grisly fate, at the age of four. I warned Whitehall and the police then that it would blow up in their faces. Trust me, it will.

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Michael Shrimpton is a barrister, called to the Bar in London 1983. He is a specialist in National Security and Constitutional Law, Strategic Intelligence and Counterterrorism. Michael was formerly an Adjunct Professor of Intelligence Studies in what was then the Department of National Security, Intelligence and Space Studies at the American Military University.

Michael’s ground-breaking, 700 page intelligence text “Spyhunter: The Secret History of German Intelligence” was published in England by June Press on April 14, 2014