GONC PASSING INFO TO THE PRESS - SHOCKING CONFIRMATION

This:

http://www.elconfidencial.com/sociedad/2011/10/24/lo-que-no-cuenta-el-diario-secreto-de-kate-mccann-86432/

has been very thoughtfully translated by Ines of MCF; it may well be the last nail in Gonc's coffin.

The Shadows Over Madeleine’s Parents

What Kate McCann’s Secret Diary Does Not Tell


By Aníbal Malvar 24/10/2011 (06:00h)



Kate McCann has been in Madrid this week to present the book “Madeleine”, based upon her diaries and in which she exhaustively describes the police and personal efforts to recover her daughter. On 3rd May 2007, Maddie McCann aged four, disappeared whilst sleeping with her twin siblings in a chalet in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve. Since then, nothing has been heard about the girl.

The police had asked Kate McCann to try to reconstruct in detail and in writing all her activities, meetings, conversations, phone calls and visits, during the days previous to Madeleine’s disappearance. Including the tiniest or most trivial detail. They assured her that this memory exercise would help the investigators follow the leads that might have appeared to her as having gone unnoticed. Kate McCann was used, since her teenage years, to take up her exercise book every day and write some impressions and details of her life. In other words, she kept a diary. However, this was not told to the Portuguese police. She waited for the arrival of the British intelligence service to deliver this more intimate diary. When the existence of this book came to light, the Portuguese police requested a copy from the British. It was denied. A gesture that muddied even further the already tense relations between the Portuguese and British investigators who were collaborating in the search for the girl.

Gonçalo Amaral had spent six years heading the Portimão Criminal Investigation Department when he was put in charge of the investigation. A few days before being taken off the case “due to political pressure” according to his own words, Amaral phoned me early in the morning in my Portimão hotel. It was the 12th September 2007 and until then, the Portuguese officer had avoided any contact with the press: “Justice is done in silence”, he quoted Saint José to kindly evade any requests for interviews. The meeting took place in a Brazilian owned cafeteria in Olhão. A dull and over lit place that would remain open until dawn.

Amaral, who had charged the McCanns five days previously, arrived late, unshaven, his suit wrinkled and with deep shadows under his eyes. He said he had not slept for days. His shabby appearance was one of the most recurrent arms used by the British press to discredit him. In the UK defending the innocence of the McCann couple had become a question of patriotism, the tabloids had gone to the lengths of qualifying the Portuguese officer as a dipsomaniac, a bumpkin and even as suspected of being involved in a paedophile network. They did not pay any attention to Amaral who continued to insist on the theory that Madeleine had suffered a domestic accident and that the parents had disposed of her body to avoid scandal: according to Amaral’s suspicions, the autopsy would have revealed that the McCanns had been sedating their hyperactive daughter and that they had exceeded the dosage. Gerry McCann, a doctor by profession, was at the point of being named for an important position in the British health service when the girl disappeared. A well-connected man with influence at the highest levels.

Although the Portuguese police had not had access to Kate McCann’s diaries, Amaral knew of part of their content due to press leaks. According to these leaks, Kate admitted in her writings that Maddie’s hyperactivity would on occasions, rile her. In any case, Amaral also doubted the veracity of what Kate had written, suggesting that the version of the diary delivered to the British several weeks after the disappearance would have been later manipulated to hide evidence: “If you take this book and write now that it is the 12th September and your impressions..., is that a diary or fiction?”.

The line of investigation opened by Amaral and so dismissed by the British, is just a question of method: “Almost 90% of all missing children cases are the parents’ responsibility”, he says, referring to police statistics. But, in this case, there were more elements of suspicion.

Firstly, the McCanns did not call the police immediately after the disappearance. They first organised, together with the friends they were dining with that night, search patrols around the resort. When they finally called the Portuguese police, the McCann apartment had been infested by amateur investigators contaminating the scene of the events and making it difficult to obtain “clean” evidence. An unreasonable attitude from educated and affluent persons. Any parent having the financial resources the McCanns had would have immediately considered the possibility of a kidnapping with economic motives.

Furthermore, the media circus organised by the McCanns, implied to Amaral the immediate “condemning to death” of the girl in the case that this was an abduction by a paedophile network. The McCanns had clearly disregarded the recommendations for discretion made to them by the Portuguese police.

After having been removed from the case, a few days after our interview, Gonçalo Amaral requested early retirement and left behind 28 years of his profession in order to write the book “Maddie. The Truth of the Lie”. In a few days more than 120.000 copies were sold. In the book, Amaral claims that Gerry McCann hid his daughter on the beach and, later, with the help of accomplices, froze her body and disposed of it. Traces of blood appeared in the apartment and car boot of the McCanns, but the police did not consider that there was conclusive proof to accuse the parents. Before the book “Truth of the Lie” was printed, PJ inspector Paulo Pereira Cristóvao had already written “The Star of Madeleine”, a book in which he relates the investigation and maintains theories very similar to those defended by Amaral. This book also had successful sales.

Now Kate McCann has just presented her book “Madeleine” in Madrid with the aim of raising funds to continue searching for her daughter. Both the Portuguese and British police have abandoned the investigation. The McCanns however, have insisted during these four years, contracting detectives who have followed false leads even to India and offering a two million pound reward to anyone who provides true information leading to Madeleine’s whereabouts. Kate McCann’s book has also been distributed in the UK and Portugal. Although “Madeleine” is partly based on them, it does not include the diaries that were so zealously denied by the British police to Gonçalo Amaral, whom, no longer a member of the police, continues to request publicly the re-opening of the case whenever he has the opportunity.

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Absolutely shocking - but sadly, not surprising.

The meeting took place in a Brazilian owned cafeteria in Olhão. A dull and over lit place that would remain open until dawn.

Amaral, who had charged the McCanns five days previously, arrived late, unshaven, his suit wrinkled and with deep shadows under his eyes.

He could always have gone home and washed, instead of babbling about the case in all-night bars to reporters.

More sick fantasies from fat amaral

Yes - and he was sharing them with a journo at some all-night bar WHEN HE WAS STILL IN CHARGE, JUST DAYS AFTER HE HAD MADE THE MCCANNS ARGUIDOS.

Yes bb1, shocking, that was also a breach in the secrecy established by PJ, why doesn´t the PJ acted swiftly against amaral about judicial secrecy breached?

Reading that, and the piece you posted, Pedro, I think it is entirely possible that the case was shelved to save PJ blushes, after the shambles Gonc caused.

Can you imagine this mess...



sitting in some all-night bar, babbling about transporting frozen corpses in the boot of the family car?

Nothing was stopping him from going home and sleeping and washing, instead of carrying on like that.

I am glad this incident is now a matter of record; I hope more journos will speak out about just what Gonc was doing before he got kicked off the case.

The police had asked Kate McCann to try to reconstruct in detail and in writing all her activities, meetings, conversations, phone calls and visits, during the days previous to Madeleine’s disappearance. Including the tiniest or most trivial detail. They assured her that this memory exercise would help the investigators follow the leads that might have appeared to her as having gone unnoticed.Kate McCann was used, since her teenage years, to take up her exercise book every day and write some impressions and details of her life. In other words, she kept a diary. However, this was not told to the Portuguese police. She waited for the arrival of the British intelligence service to deliver this more intimate diary. When the existence of this book came to light, the Portuguese police requested a copy from the British. It was denied. A gesture that muddied even further the already tense relations between the Portuguese and British investigators who were collaborating in the search for the girl.

Another down right lie from Morais and her cronies. Didn't they rip Phill McCann apart, saying this was her idea?
I bet Gonc made a tidy profit from selling information to journo's.

I think it is now being shown how obvious it was in 2007 that the McCanns were set up for Gonc's personal financial gain and incompetence, and to cover something very, very sinister where he's concerned "F*****g To***r". I hope he rots in hell

In the name...this is on MM too, where someone has asked:

who was the source of the information, who gave this briefing to the spanish press

All together now... IT WAS GONC HIMSELF

Gonçalo Amaral had spent six years heading the Portimão Criminal Investigation Department when he was put in charge of the investigation. A few days before being taken off the case “due to political pressure” according to his own words, Amaral phoned me early in the morning in my Portimão hotel. It was the 12th September 2007 and until then, the Portuguese officer had avoided any contact with the press: “Justice is done in silence”, he quoted Saint José to kindly evade any requests for interviews. The meeting took place in a Brazilian owned cafeteria in Olhão. A dull and over lit place that would remain open until dawn.

It was Gonc himself who was babbling this nonsense to a Spanish journalist in an all-night bar when he should have been at home doing things like sleeping and washing.

Yes bb1, I agree with you.

About amaral´s words:

"the Portuguese officer had avoided any contact with the press: “Justice is done in silence”.

amaral´s disgusting behaviour proves exactly the contrary:

what amaral have done until the moment he was sacked, cannot be called justice, the shocking truth is: secrecy code broken, with defamation, lies, smears, unproven fantasies just to feed amaral´s greed, used to write books of lies just to feed his thirst for fame etc.

It's also being discussed here:

http://regretsandramblings.com/2011/10/25/the-shadows-over-madeleine%E2%80%99s-parents/

where they have been ferretting stuff out; it seems this is the second time the journalist has written about this meeting.

The first time, he tried to be clever, and hide who was saying what, which led Gonc's then- lawyer, Paulo Santos, to say:


“Those statements
are a complete lie. Gonçalo Amaral never told the journalist anything.”

Dear me; how would Santos know what was said at the meeting? I am afraid that Gonc is in hot water now, because he simply should not have been meeting with journos in the first place for private chats.

And who believes a convicted liar, anyway?

Still, I have found out, courtesy of google, that there are many fine Brazilian restaurants in Olhão; Gonc just seems to have decided he preferred an all-night bar for his rendezvous.

And why, pray tell, was he in Olhão in the middle of the night in the first place? No wonder he looked rough and dirty.

ETA, aha!

http://thepjfiles.prophpbb.com/topic242-20.html

he has property there...


On the last weekend in September, I decide to leave Portimão to go to my virtually abandoned house in the Algarvian east.

On that occasion, he has his daughter with him; presumably she wasn't there when he was meeting journos in bars in the middle of the night.

I was going to ask if Sofia and he had rowed and he was not in the marital home at the time.

What the hell was he doing in an all night bar when he had his daughter at home?

ETA: Sorry, she wasn't with him at that time. Ever since reading about him driving his daughter while he was drunk, late at night, you cannot trust him.

lily wrote:I was going to ask if Sofia and he had rowed and he was not in the marital home at the time.

What the hell was he doing in an all night bar when he had his daughter at home?

ETA: Sorry, she wasn't with him at that time. Ever since reading about him driving his daughter while he was drunk, late at night, you cannot trust him.

I think it meant that he didn't take his daughter to the Bar. He probably left her at the house.

There's more background here;

http://regretsandramblings.com/2011/10/25/the-shadows-over-madeleine%E2%80%99s-parents/

from what I can make out, this is the second piece from the Spanish journo about this meeting; he seems to have tried to be a clever clogs in the first one, and changed people's names, etc.

Gonc threatened to sue, apparently:

The author of the devastating article published in "El Mundo" says there is a misunderstanding... But he apologises

"It was never my intention to offend the Portuguese police or Gonçalo Amaral. If I did it, I apologise". This were the words of Aníbal Malvar to the 24 Horas yesterday.

The journalist, 43 years old, that will be sued for what he wrote said that he tried to speak with Gonçalo Amaral to clarify any misunderstanding but was not able to.

Aníbal Malvar says he is surprised with the repercussion that his article published last Sunday is having in Portugal. "The article is a literary one and has several sarcasms and it's perhaps because of that that was misunderstood", he claims.

This seems to be the one that caused the trouble:

http://www.mccannfiles.com/id105.html

Oh look at this.....the translation is a bit confusing, but -

Amaral was set off by the press to criticize the efforts of the occult British police, their stubbornness in preventing the McCann investigation. And also charged to McCann after a tense night interrogation on 7 September. Two days later, the couple and the twins fled the Algarve and took refuge in Britain. Six days later, Amaral spoke for the first time with the press since the disappearance of Maddie. He chose a foreign means: Chronicle. He requested that the meeting not be recorded as an interview but as a result of third [party] sources. He only wants to be transcribed his denials in those matters in which the British press has just screwed him: they have accused him of drunkenness, laziness, and, that which hurts him most, of being a bad dresser.
-- Do you not want to respond to the accusations?
- No.
-- Doesn’t the media commotion bother him so much?
- As San José said, justice is done in silence.

He requested that the meeting not be recorded as an interview but as a result of third [party] sources.



I take it he wanted it to be attributed to the usual 'PJ Sources', then?

As it wasn't, it leads to:

In fact, in his article, Malvar included a description of a meeting with former
inspector Gonçalo Amaral, something that was dismissed by Paulo Santos, Amaral's
lawyer: “Those statements
are a complete lie. Gonçalo Amaral never told the journalist anything.”

All of which makes it glaringly obvious that there was indeed a middle-of-the-night meeting in some bar near Gonc's family home, in which he ran his mouth off.

In September 2007, BEFORE he was kicked off the case.

At least that would be improvement over driving her around while he's drunk, Sabot.

lily wrote:At least that would be improvement over driving her around while he's drunk, Sabot.

But she could have been Abducted, Lily. It's a bit dodgy up around there.

Sabot wrote:

lily wrote:At least that would be improvement over driving her around while he's drunk, Sabot.

But she could have been Abducted, Lily. It's a bit dodgy up around there.

He would have blamed the parents, Sabot. Come up with insane theories about beaches and fridges and cars and stuff.

That whole article is appalling, actually. Just look at the garbage Gonc came out with - it bears no resemblance to reality.

What absolute, insulting, sh*te:

Firstly, the McCanns did not call the police immediately after the disappearance. They first organised, together with the friends they were dining with that night, search patrols around the resort. When they finally called the Portuguese police, the McCann apartment had been infested by amateur investigators contaminating the scene of the events and making it difficult to obtain “clean” evidence. An unreasonable attitude from educated and affluent persons. Any parent having the financial resources the McCanns had would have immediately considered the possibility of a kidnapping with economic motives.

Furthermore, the media circus organised by the McCanns, implied to Amaral the immediate “condemning to death” of the girl in the case that this was an abduction by a paedophile network. The McCanns had clearly disregarded the recommendations for discretion made to them by the Portuguese police.

How dare he call the McCanns and their friends 'amateur investigators'? It wasn't them who trampled dog hairs, fingerprint dust, and large, policemen's boots all over the place.

What 'financial resources'? The McCanns are just a pair of fairly ordinary, NHS doctors.

And why was Gonc so against the media being told that Madeleine had gone missing? You would almost think he was terrified she would be found.

Normal police practise is to raise as much as a hue and cry as possible, and involve the media, so the public are aware a child is missing.

When I read things like that, I swear Gonc is hiding something.

Yer. Makes me want to puke. Lying barstard. But it can be proved that he was lying.

And why was Gonc so against the media being told that Madeleine had gone missing? You would almost think he was terrified she would be found...

When I read things like that, I swear Gonc is hiding something.

It certainly does get you thinking about that. Also, this coming after the mysterious Cipriano case.........

I just get this vision of that scruffy, grubby, apology for a police officer holding court in his all-night bar, pontificating about, We policemen say..

I don't recall Rebelo ever looking anything but immaculate and professional; no wonder Gonc has so little support outside his own clique.

I wonder if he was scruffy like that habitually, or whether it was only when he and Sofia were on the outs?