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LaMisty
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 Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 05:59:06
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Clarence Mitchell briefed by British police about Madeleine’s investigation
The McCann spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, confirmed that he was briefed by British police about the investigation concerning Madeleine McCann disappearance. Mr. Clarence told that he had “private briefings” from British police officials who assured him that British police is treating the case as an abduction. He also said, at a debate on "The McCanns and the Media" at the London School of Economics, that the same British police who briefed him told that they do not consider the McCann suspects in the disappearance her daugther.
"I have also had briefings privately from the police and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre that also gave me complete reassurance that the authorities, in this country certainly, are treating this as a case of rare stranger abduction, as they call it", Clarence Mitchell told, during the debate.
Posted by Paulo Reis
More....
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i6lurYhJpw6r1gSMnezQCw4-FwoQ
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LaMisty
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Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 16:19:03
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More spin and twisting of stories from Clarence.
http://www.findmadeleine.com/ns/news/detail/?id=34
Response to Mr Ribeiro’s reported comments
Date Released: 02/02/2008 14:44:00
Responding to the reported comments of Alipio Ribeiro, the National Director of the Portuguese Policia Judiciaria (PJ), in an interview recorded for Radio Renascenca due to be broadcast on Sunday Feb 3rd 2008, Clarence Mitchell said:
“Kate and Gerry McCann very much welcome Alipio Ribeiro’s reported comments in which he accepts that Portuguese police officers under his authority acted too hastily in making the McCanns official suspects. Now that the National Director of the Policia Judiciaria apparently accepts that they should not have been made arguido, it follows that there is no case for Kate and Gerry to answer. As I have consistently said, Kate and Gerry are entirely innocent of any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine and now, in the light of Mr Ribeiro’s remarks, we urge the Portuguese judicial authorities to act humanely by removing their arguido status as swiftly as possible. Not only does it continue to damage their reputation in the eyes of the world, it is also directly hampering the search for Madeleine, as many people who may have vital information have possibly not been coming forward because they have wrongly suspected the McCanns. If the Portuguese police, under Mr Ribeiro, now do the only proper thing by eliminating Kate and Gerry from their enquiry, they and our own investigators can work together rapidly and effectively to find Madeleine and to bring those responsible for her abduction to justice.”
Now for the real report.
The Radio Renascença site has an article on the interview to be broadcast tomorrow. It is not an interview exclusively about the Madeleine case but on police/judicial matters in general.
On the Maddy case, the articles says:
Sobre o caso Maddy, Alipio Ribeiro considera que foi uma precipitação constituir arguidos os membros do casal Mc Cann.
O Director Nacional da Polícia Judiciária garante, à Renascença, que a PJ está empenhada no caso, embora acredite que este é um caso de paciência.
Translation:
On the Maddy case, Alipio Ribeiro opines that the McCanns were named official suspects too hastily.
The National Director of the PJ nevertheless guarantees to Renascença that the PJ is committed to solving the case, although he believes it is one that will require patience.
This could simply mean that they ought to have waited until all the forensic evidence was in before they named them 'arguidos'. It DOES NOT say that they ought not to be 'arguidos' which is the spin CM is trying to put on it. There would probably have been no extension of the period of 'secrecy' if the McCanns had no case to answer. |
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Nova
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Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 18:12:56
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And it’s already on the Daily Mail site:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=511921&in_page_id=1770
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In an interview with Portugal's Radio Renascenca, to be broadcast on Sunday, Mr Ribeiro stressed he did not give his officers orders about who should be named an arguido.
But he said there was a "certain hastiness" in making the McCanns suspects.
The couple's spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, today welcomed the senior officer's comments and called for them to be formally cleared.
He said: "Now that the national director of the Policia Judiciaria apparently accepts that they should not have been made arguido, it follows that there is no case for Kate and Gerry to answer.
"As I have consistently said, Kate and Gerry are entirely innocent of any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine.
"Now, in the light of Mr Ribeiro's remarks, we urge the Portuguese judicial authorities to act humanely by removing their arguido status as swiftly as possible.
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Clarence Mitchell:"now that the national director of the Policia Judiciaria apparently accepts that they should not have been made arguido"... – but that’s not what he said, is it?
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LaMisty
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Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 18:29:32
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The comments from Rebiro do not signal anything of importance except that the McCann's early arguido status was perhaps a tactical mistake he would not have made. That is ALL.
Obviously Clarence will spin this his way, aided by the UK media, and we will see a storm of biased reporting, but nothing more unusual than normal.
We'll hear more news tomorrow after the Portuguese radio station transmits it :)
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Garfield
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Posted - Feb 03 2008 : 01:50:21
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| hopefully mondays papers will be full of the real story and not Clarence Mitchell Spin! |
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