Aika omahyväistä tekstiä sellaiselta, joka ei itse tuo keskusteluun koskaan uutta, aliarvioi vain muiden postauksia, erityisesti naiset tuntuvat olevan se vaikea asia. Tästä voisi varmaan analysoida vaikka kuinka pitkään, vaan eipä voisi vähempää kiinnostaa
Mutta takaisin itse asiaan, joka onkin sitten kiinnostavampi!
Amaralin haastattelu.
(25 February 2010 Carlos Saraiva / Oscar Queiroz)
"The McCanns did not oppose the archiving of the process"
The former head of the investigation into the disappearance of Maddie considers it advantageous to reopen the process and admits that this approach may shed light on the fate of the English child.
"O Crime" - During the trial of the temporary injunction of your book, the existence of a confidential report from the National Policy Investigation Agency was cited. Is it the same as mentioned in the "Maddie process"?
Gonçalo Amaral: It is. It is one of several British police agencies, but with a particularity: the NPIA, is the one which has behavioural analysts.
This is a private agency?
No, it is not a private detective agency. It's as official as Scotland Yard. Moreover, they had already said that this report existed; realized on the advice of the police.
Under what circumstances and what emerges? Who commissioned the report?
No one ordered it, I think. It was their own initiative (the British), initiated as soon as they arrived, shortly after the disappearance of the girl.
And what does that report say?
It speaks of several hypotheses but, as you know, I cannot speak, I have been banned.
It was annexed to the investigation based on the assumption that some of the information was relevant? Which?
I do not know if I can respond to that. I think this report is important, it concludes by saying that you cannot set aside the hypothesis of... And it is true that whilst there is no evidence of the involvement of certain people, the fact remains that there is no evidence of an abduction. And indeed, no one has ever presented proof of the abduction. I recall that the facts in the book relate to the first 6 months of the investigation, while I participated. It was a situation where we had the support of the MP [Public Ministry]. In other words, until that time, the status of the investigation was in accordance with the Public Ministry. Later there was a change of mind, so it seems from the archiving despatch. The despatch is just an opinion of the Public Ministry, not a declaration of innocence.
Why do you think that the ruling banning the sale of your book was somehow unfavourable to the McCanns?
Because, basically, what the lady Judge said in her statement is that the book "The Truth of the Lie" tells facts, though, she says, out of context; they do not coincide with the final opinion of the Public Ministry. Apparently, the opinion of the Public Ministry is sacred. Though only in my case. In the "Hidden Face" case, the public prosecutor's opinion of Aveiro did not even serve to open the investigation. This country is a disgrace!
Generically, what could be argued in the appeal?
I am not going to answer that, obviously. What I can advance is that my lawyers say there is sufficient material for recourse.
There is news of a criminal complaint by Robert Murat against Jane Tanner, one of the friends of the McCanns. She was questioned at the time of the investigation?
That process exists, yes, I was even heard as a witness. Tanner was questioned in the Maddie process yes, as a witness. First she said she saw Murat at the scene, recognized him by the way he walked. And then she said other things, later on. Besides there was a diligence in which she said that yes, it was him, and there were later recognitions and a witness confrontation carried out between them, with Murat, in which they said it was him.
Who are they?
Those who I remember, besides Jane Tanner, were her husband and the wife of Oldfield. They faced a confrontation with Mr Murat.
And how would you evaluate her testimony [Jane Tanner]?
As I said, she, at first, said she saw him at the scene. Then she began to retract it, saying that, after all, she had recognized him through an Indentikit picture. For several months, she came to recognize a number of people, through Identikit pictures. This speaks for itself about the credibility of her statements. Yet in the investigation there is a moment, a confrontation between the people previously mentioned, who say that Murat was there at the time the alarm was raised. That, and other things, is what has motivated the libel suit that Murat has brought against Ms. Tanner.
Do you agree with the possible reopening of the "Maddie process"?
That is what I have advocated since it was archived. Now, they do not advocate that. If they wanted, they have ways of opposing the archiving, specifically calling for the reopening of the investigation. What they want is that the police (here) follow the leads, sightings that are sent from England. They act as if the girl was a Portuguese citizen and not a British subject.
Do you fear for your heritage, given the possibility of a civil conviction for 1.2 million that the English couple demand?
I do not think compensation will be paid. Anyway, what little I have is embargoed.
Do you think this case will, over the years, become a mystery without being solved?
I think it can be solved. When they reopen the process and the trails which are there are investigated, I think it will be solved.