First Madeleine McCann book to be published
The first book on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is set to be published next week by one of Portugal’s best known crime reporters.
Hernani Carvalho’s book, Maddy 129, traces the 129 days between four-year-old’s disappearance from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz to her parents being named as official suspects in the case.
Mr Carvalho told the Daily Mail that his investigation, with co-author Luis Maia, produced a "series of questions" about the timing of Madeleine’s disappearance.
The book did not present a theory about what happened to Madeleine, but analysed what Mr Carvalho said were discrepancies in the case.
The book ends with the emotional return of Kate and Gerry McCann to their home in Rothley, Leicestershire on September 9, which marked the "the end of a cycle", Mr Carvalho said.
“After all the information about the case, what stands out is a series of doubts and contradictions, facts that do not fit,” he told the Daily Mail.
"We don't have a theory about what happened to Madeleine. What we have is all the things that are said to have happened and do not match up.”
Mr and Mrs McCann are formal suspects, or arguidos, in the police investigation, however they have strenuously denied any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance.
VANISHED by Danny Collins
THE STAR OF MADELEINE by Paulo Cristova
Ex-PJ inspector, Paulo Cristovao, claims in his novel "The Star Of Madeleine", that Madeleine McCanns body was dumped in the Atlantic ocean. Paulo is aware of the dislike the McCanns have for him due to his comments they should both have been arrested for child neglect.
FAKED ABDUCTION by Brian Johnson
ANALYSIS OF THE CASE OF MISSING MADELEINE MCCANN by Daniela Prousa
German author Daniela follows the same theory as Dr.Amaral, Madeleine died in the apartment and the parents covered it up.
THE GUILT OF THE MCCANNS by Manuel Catarino
The basis of the book goes primarily through the entire investigation by the PJ-GNR.The book is not a libellous accusation of the McCanns. It reconstructs scenarios, evidence, puts that evidence in correlation and reveals them. The book does not judge nor pre-judges that evidence. It simply makes it public. The book also interviews criminologist José Manuel Anes who makes an impartial exam of the investigation conducted by the PJ-GNR.
THE ENGLISH GAG by Dr.Goncalo Amaral
THE TRUTH OF THE LIE by Dr.Goncalo Amaral
"The book's content does not offend any of the applicants' fundamental rights''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/19/madeleine-mccann-book-ban-overturned#box
Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in 2007. Photograph: PA
Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing Madeleine, suffered a setback today in their legal battle with a Portuguese police officer when a Lisbon appeal court overturned a ban on his book about the case.
The book by former police detective Gonçalo Amaral, who led the Madeleine investigation in the first five months after the three-year-old's disappearance, can now go back on sale.
In September last year the McCanns obtained the ban on Amaral's book Maddie – The Truth about the Lie, in which he claims they were involved in the toddler's disappearance.
Amaral claims Madeleine died accidentally in the Algarve holiday apartment at Praia da Luz, where she was first reported missing in October 2007, and that her parents fabricated the abduction story. The McCanns, who have never ceased in their search for the missing girl, are suing him for defamation.
Portugal's attorney general, having reviewed the investigation, has ruled there is no evidence to suggest that the McCanns are anything other than entirely innocent.
The court said the decision to block sales of the book had broken "a constitutional and universal right: that of opinion and freedom of expression."
"The contents of the book do not breach the basic rights of the plaintiffs," the court said, according to the Jornal de Noticías newspaper's website.
"The book is an exercise in freedom of speech," Amaral told Portugal's Lusa news agency. "Portuguese democracy has won, as banning the book was unconstitutional."
A spokesman for the McCann family said the decision did not stop the defamation case. "The defamation action against Mr Amaral is very much continuing," he said. "Kate and Gerry's lawyers are now examining the detail of this latest ruling and are considering an appeal."
After Amaral lost an earlier appeal, the McCanns claimed his book had caused "significant, ongoing damage to the search for our beloved daughter Madeleine and to the rights of our family ... there is no evidence that Madeleine has come to any harm."
They added: "As painful and personally damaging as the slanderous claims of Mr Amaral and his supporters have been to us and our family, our primary focus has always been, and always will be, to find Madeleine through our own best investigative efforts."
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Dr.Christian Ludke and his well read article on the McCanns
Interviewer: You have since early on warned that behavior of Gerry and Kate McCann is pointing towards them being involved, what had made you feel that way?
Ludke: In the latest years I have often been in contact with parents who had lost their child due to a crime. They are under massive shock, were helpless, were insecure, withdrawing themselves. They have an inner struggle, blaming themselves for possibly not have looked enough after their child.
Interviewer: Was it different with the McCanns?
Ludke: They live completely different, often harmonic. Already after a few days they went jogging, as if that was a normal thing to do, they always came together. These parents took matters into their own hands instead of leaving matters in the hands of the police. They distanced themselves from their two other children by going on a European tour, that to me is very strange.
Interviewer: Maybe it was an accident?
Ludke: No. In such a case, after the first shock they would have trusted the police. Both parents are doctors, in case of an accident they would have tried to get help. It is even more unrealistic that of all people two doctors would leave 3 children alone in a strange environment, even more at night. I have many doctors as patients. As professionals they know all that can happen to children, and as parents they are overly protective.
Interviewer: What could have been the motive, to disappear their own daughter?
Ludke: There are parents who have little to no emotional binding with a child. Often such a child is considered a burden, that is treated in a brutal or perverse way. The most known is the Munchhausen-by proxy-Syndrome: The mother hurts the child until it is almost not alive anymore and then calls for the police because she herself has a huge wish for attention.
Interviewer: Do you think it is possible that Madeleine’s parents have killed Madeleine together and hidden her?
Ludke: I believe both have perpetrator knowledge.
Interviewer: You mean, the McCanns have planned the death of their daughter?
Ludke: Yes, it is possible that they have planned the act for a long time, at least in must have been in their minds often and they must have spoken about it together. Otherwise they would now be contradicting each others.
Interviewer: When parents are guilty of killing their child, do they block that out of their minds?
Ludke: not likely. Both are very much conscious, give interviews, travel. It is for them easier to lie than to tell the truth.
One can rule out a psychoses. Many things are pointing towards mentally disturbed. The children of the McCanns were conceived artificially, that can lead to problems in parenthood. Maybe a lack of self esteem that is not often talked about. Maybe the child had to die for a problem that had been going on for many years.
Interviewer: But the McCanns seem perfect and loving parents.
Ludke: That image to the outside world can be due to a guilt mechanism when on a media campaign, and to distract from the real problem.
Interviewer: Why do they not go back to Great Britain?
Ludke: That also speaks against them, when someone looses a child they want to be with loved ones in a trusted surrounding. When they continue to stay on that resort, there were something terrible happened the worse that can happen to a parent, being loosing a child, that points towards a permanent survival instinct, images of what happened must pop up when being there. That the McCanns do not return home, where they also can have memories of happy times with their children can be a way out, to not be de-connected with what they have done.
Interviewer: The world thinks it is impossible that these parents can be guilty.
Ludke: the media are probably been taken on by the McCanns. Very soon they have been thinking of themselves instead of of the child. De parents were treated like the Beckhams. In his Internet diary the father writes almost daily about that and irrelevant/banal things, which shirt he was wearing, what the weather is like. That isn’t a father that is worried. Statistically 70 percent of all the violence against children is caused by the parents, family members or friends. That has unfortunately not been looked into. The Portuguese police was treated very unfairly when pointing towards that.
THE STAR OF MADELEINE by Paulo Cristova
Ex-PJ inspector, Paulo Cristovao, claims in his novel "The Star Of Madeleine", that Madeleine McCanns body was dumped in the Atlantic ocean. Paulo is aware of the dislike the McCanns have for him due to his comments they should both have been arrested for child neglect.
FAKED ABDUCTION by Brian Johnson
ANALYSIS OF THE CASE OF MISSING MADELEINE MCCANN by Daniela Prousa
German author Daniela follows the same theory as Dr.Amaral, Madeleine died in the apartment and the parents covered it up.
THE GUILT OF THE MCCANNS by Manuel Catarino
The basis of the book goes primarily through the entire investigation by the PJ-GNR.The book is not a libellous accusation of the McCanns. It reconstructs scenarios, evidence, puts that evidence in correlation and reveals them. The book does not judge nor pre-judges that evidence. It simply makes it public. The book also interviews criminologist José Manuel Anes who makes an impartial exam of the investigation conducted by the PJ-GNR.
THE ENGLISH GAG by Dr.Goncalo Amaral
THE TRUTH OF THE LIE by Dr.Goncalo Amaral
"The book's content does not offend any of the applicants' fundamental rights''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/19/madeleine-mccann-book-ban-overturned#box
Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in 2007. Photograph: PA
Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing Madeleine, suffered a setback today in their legal battle with a Portuguese police officer when a Lisbon appeal court overturned a ban on his book about the case.
The book by former police detective Gonçalo Amaral, who led the Madeleine investigation in the first five months after the three-year-old's disappearance, can now go back on sale.
In September last year the McCanns obtained the ban on Amaral's book Maddie – The Truth about the Lie, in which he claims they were involved in the toddler's disappearance.
Amaral claims Madeleine died accidentally in the Algarve holiday apartment at Praia da Luz, where she was first reported missing in October 2007, and that her parents fabricated the abduction story. The McCanns, who have never ceased in their search for the missing girl, are suing him for defamation.
Portugal's attorney general, having reviewed the investigation, has ruled there is no evidence to suggest that the McCanns are anything other than entirely innocent.
The court said the decision to block sales of the book had broken "a constitutional and universal right: that of opinion and freedom of expression."
"The contents of the book do not breach the basic rights of the plaintiffs," the court said, according to the Jornal de Noticías newspaper's website.
"The book is an exercise in freedom of speech," Amaral told Portugal's Lusa news agency. "Portuguese democracy has won, as banning the book was unconstitutional."
A spokesman for the McCann family said the decision did not stop the defamation case. "The defamation action against Mr Amaral is very much continuing," he said. "Kate and Gerry's lawyers are now examining the detail of this latest ruling and are considering an appeal."
After Amaral lost an earlier appeal, the McCanns claimed his book had caused "significant, ongoing damage to the search for our beloved daughter Madeleine and to the rights of our family ... there is no evidence that Madeleine has come to any harm."
They added: "As painful and personally damaging as the slanderous claims of Mr Amaral and his supporters have been to us and our family, our primary focus has always been, and always will be, to find Madeleine through our own best investigative efforts."
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Dr.Christian Ludke and his well read article on the McCanns
Interviewer: You have since early on warned that behavior of Gerry and Kate McCann is pointing towards them being involved, what had made you feel that way?
Ludke: In the latest years I have often been in contact with parents who had lost their child due to a crime. They are under massive shock, were helpless, were insecure, withdrawing themselves. They have an inner struggle, blaming themselves for possibly not have looked enough after their child.
Interviewer: Was it different with the McCanns?
Ludke: They live completely different, often harmonic. Already after a few days they went jogging, as if that was a normal thing to do, they always came together. These parents took matters into their own hands instead of leaving matters in the hands of the police. They distanced themselves from their two other children by going on a European tour, that to me is very strange.
Interviewer: Maybe it was an accident?
Ludke: No. In such a case, after the first shock they would have trusted the police. Both parents are doctors, in case of an accident they would have tried to get help. It is even more unrealistic that of all people two doctors would leave 3 children alone in a strange environment, even more at night. I have many doctors as patients. As professionals they know all that can happen to children, and as parents they are overly protective.
Interviewer: What could have been the motive, to disappear their own daughter?
Ludke: There are parents who have little to no emotional binding with a child. Often such a child is considered a burden, that is treated in a brutal or perverse way. The most known is the Munchhausen-by proxy-Syndrome: The mother hurts the child until it is almost not alive anymore and then calls for the police because she herself has a huge wish for attention.
Interviewer: Do you think it is possible that Madeleine’s parents have killed Madeleine together and hidden her?
Ludke: I believe both have perpetrator knowledge.
Interviewer: You mean, the McCanns have planned the death of their daughter?
Ludke: Yes, it is possible that they have planned the act for a long time, at least in must have been in their minds often and they must have spoken about it together. Otherwise they would now be contradicting each others.
Interviewer: When parents are guilty of killing their child, do they block that out of their minds?
Ludke: not likely. Both are very much conscious, give interviews, travel. It is for them easier to lie than to tell the truth.
One can rule out a psychoses. Many things are pointing towards mentally disturbed. The children of the McCanns were conceived artificially, that can lead to problems in parenthood. Maybe a lack of self esteem that is not often talked about. Maybe the child had to die for a problem that had been going on for many years.
Interviewer: But the McCanns seem perfect and loving parents.
Ludke: That image to the outside world can be due to a guilt mechanism when on a media campaign, and to distract from the real problem.
Interviewer: Why do they not go back to Great Britain?
Ludke: That also speaks against them, when someone looses a child they want to be with loved ones in a trusted surrounding. When they continue to stay on that resort, there were something terrible happened the worse that can happen to a parent, being loosing a child, that points towards a permanent survival instinct, images of what happened must pop up when being there. That the McCanns do not return home, where they also can have memories of happy times with their children can be a way out, to not be de-connected with what they have done.
Interviewer: The world thinks it is impossible that these parents can be guilty.
Ludke: the media are probably been taken on by the McCanns. Very soon they have been thinking of themselves instead of of the child. De parents were treated like the Beckhams. In his Internet diary the father writes almost daily about that and irrelevant/banal things, which shirt he was wearing, what the weather is like. That isn’t a father that is worried. Statistically 70 percent of all the violence against children is caused by the parents, family members or friends. That has unfortunately not been looked into. The Portuguese police was treated very unfairly when pointing towards that.
