Jon Clark, disgraced Editor of The Olive Press, and his curious comments in the 'Disappearance of Madeleine McCann' Netflix film
Quotes from Jon Clarke in the Netflix 'Disappearance of Madeleine McCann' film (episode 2) with replies by PeterMac in red;
Jon Clarke: Yeah, from the first day, I've got original high definition pictures. This is the police arriving for example, with sniffer dogs. [Jon is at his desk pointing at pictures on his laptop screen] at about four or five o'clock in the afternoon on the first day. By this point there were quite a lot of detectives in Lagos and none of them knew what to do or were doing anything. This is the Policia judiciaria, [chuckling] which is a funny looking headquarters. You can just about make out the police badge here. See all the detectives? Look at them, all plain clothes chaps, scruffy looking buggers. Look at them all wondering what to do next.
In what way does this advance your story ?
The Dogs were in Pdl long before you arrived, as you well know, and you were filmed in the vicinity of the dog vans and handlers.
Plain clothes detectives often dress as ‘scruffy looking buggers’ so as to blend in with, say, investigative journalists, who are perhaps doing the same to blend in with, for example, plain clothes detectives.
Jon Clarke speaking present day whilst footage of apartment 5a outside is being shown : “We had police confirmation that they were looking into well known paedophiles, British and German, who lived in the area that were on the sex offenders database that had come here and that were on an official Interpol list, which was really, straightaway, quite . . . sinister. “
Why is it sinister that the police were investigating the very thing the McCanns were insisting was the truth ?
Jon Clarke speaking over LC, present day: “Lori Campbell was the reporter on the ground for the Sunday Mirror and we went off to local villages, looking into known paedophiles in the area. I remember driving in and thinking, you know, it was a fairly pretty place…”
Preface written by Gonçalo Amaral for Paulo Reis' eBook: "The McCann's War"
PREFACE
The mysterious disappearance of a blue-eyed, blonde British child in a southern European country has turned into a tremendous Media case, largely because of a marketing strategy centered on the immaculate image of the parents, their exoneration, and a fierce attack on all those who, in the use of their right to opinion and freedom of expression, dare to put the kidnapping thesis for pedophile purposes in cause, but mainly because the investigation did not followed its normal course, that is, to cover all hypotheses, which twelve years later remain open.
The strategy of the parents of the child mysteriously disappeared presents dogmatic traces of truths similar to a new religion based on that immaculate image and not subject to scrutiny. Someone has already said that the truth of those parents has more force than the truth revealed by the "Messiahs" of monotheistic religions, Christians, Jews or Muslims.
As parents, they claim that there is no evidence of their daughter's death, as defendants they say that there is no evidence to blame them for the mysterious disappearance, as she was abducted in a planned manner by an international pedophile network, as claimants in a claim for compensation in the value of 1.2 million Euros they argue that any opinion contrary to their opinion will put at risk the survival of Madeleine and make impossible to found her. With the decision to file the investigation, they were cleared of any liability, following a second investigation that had been carried out until October 2007.
From a very early stage, their war strategically used the Media and the potential of the Internet, in order to discredit all those who dare to have an opinion contrary to their own, even if based on facts which, despite the millions of Euros spent, have never been questioned and still have evidence and have probationary force. We do not discuss the evidence of the death of the unhappy child, this can not be the center of the investigation of her mysterious disappearance. This kind of investigation must have a beginning, a middle and an end, in a normal zigzagging of any and all criminal investigations. In the end, the facts will speak for themselves.
The strategy of the parents of the child mysteriously disappeared presents dogmatic traces of truths similar to a new religion based on that immaculate image and not subject to scrutiny. Someone has already said that the truth of those parents has more force than the truth revealed by the "Messiahs" of monotheistic religions, Christians, Jews or Muslims.
As parents, they claim that there is no evidence of their daughter's death, as defendants they say that there is no evidence to blame them for the mysterious disappearance, as she was abducted in a planned manner by an international pedophile network, as claimants in a claim for compensation in the value of 1.2 million Euros they argue that any opinion contrary to their opinion will put at risk the survival of Madeleine and make impossible to found her. With the decision to file the investigation, they were cleared of any liability, following a second investigation that had been carried out until October 2007.
From a very early stage, their war strategically used the Media and the potential of the Internet, in order to discredit all those who dare to have an opinion contrary to their own, even if based on facts which, despite the millions of Euros spent, have never been questioned and still have evidence and have probationary force. We do not discuss the evidence of the death of the unhappy child, this can not be the center of the investigation of her mysterious disappearance. This kind of investigation must have a beginning, a middle and an end, in a normal zigzagging of any and all criminal investigations. In the end, the facts will speak for themselves.
JON CLARKE – OLIVE PRESS LIES AND VIDEOTAPE
JON
CLARKE – OLIVE PRESS
LIES
AND VIDEOTAPE
ForewordNota Bene: After reading the article under discussion I contacted “The Olive Press”, asking for a retraction and an apology. I received neither acknowledgment nor reply
A week later I sent a repeat email.
This time Jon Clarke, publisher and editor replied, denying that anything was ‘libel’.
I sent a suggested form of words for the retraction and apology.
He replied repeating that they did not consider that there was any libel.
In
view of this I believe I am entitled to assume that there is no
reasonable prospect of a retraction, a correction, nor an apology.
The
attitude of “The Olive Press” towards defamation may also be clear, as
it was expressed in an article of November 2011, trumpeting under a
44-point-bold banner headline –WHY LIBEL IS NO BIG DEAL IN SPAIN [1]
In the previous Chapter “Fake News” I looked at an article by Jon Clarke, the owner and publisher of a free newspaper in southern Spain “The Olive Press”.
I showed how that article, published in 2017, was seriously divergent from, and often contrary to facts as reported by other people. Notably, and potentially seriously, it directly contradicted much of what Kate McCann herself had written in her autobiography “madeleine”. But there the matter rested. It was discussed on several Fora, but was largely dismissed as “the usual nonsense”.
In late March 2019 I went into a supermarket in southern Spain, purchased a bottle of wine and wrapped it in one of the free tabloid papers helpfully supplied at the check-out for this purpose.
On this occasion it was “The Olive Press”. Vol.13 Issue 314 to be precise.
The article is not attributed and is written in the third person, but is clearly by Jon Clarke.
As the publisher and editor of the paper he is ultimately responsible for its content.
In it I am identified by name, occupation and location, and then subjected to the routine, gratuitous ad-hominen insults and abuse sadly so typical of what we have come to expect of those who uncritically support the ‘official’ story put out by Team McCann and their acolytes and apologists.
One third of the entire article is devoted to entirely gratuitous abuse.
Gratuitous in that yet again it sets up and then knocks down the straw-man argument about “proving that the McCanns did not kill Madeline’ which it is unlikely anyone actually believes.
I am a long since retired police officer as he accurately states, from a previous millennium and perhaps from a more robust generation. I am hardened to abuse of the sort we come to expect from drunks, drug users, criminals and tabloid journalists.
But there is more. He goes on to make four distinct statements about me.
It is in the public domain, published in 100,000 copies, with huge numbers of readers both on-line and via Facebook and Android apps - his figures, not mine - and so I give a quote
. . [he] once tried to claim that Olive Press editor Clarke could not have been in Praia da Luz on the morning after Maddie’s disappearance.
In a disgusting blog post he also somehow suggested that Clarke may have been in some way involved.”
Let us pick it apart. Let us be clinically detached, ignore the sneering and abusive tone, forget the libel, and stick to the facts of what is being said. Keep our eye on the squirrel.
Australian journalist Mark Saunokonoko's 'Maddie McCann' podcasts
Mark Saunokonoko is a well respected Australian senior journalist
based at Australia's 9NEWS. Mr Saunokonoko is not a member of CMOMM or
the MMRG, he has however called on the expertise of both CMOMM members
retired Police Superintendent PeterMac (author of What really happened to Madeleine McCann?) and Portuguese journalist Paulo Reis (author of The McCann's War), in addition to basing much of his work on the
research of CMOMM members and other commentators across social media.
Over a period of years, he has researched and worked on a series of
podcasts concerning the case of missing Madeleine McCann. The podcasts
have very recently been broadcast and can be heard here:
New book by Portuguese journalist Paulo Reis: The McCann's War
11 April 2019
A new factual McCann book is soon to be published, in both Portuguese and English, by a Portuguese journalist who was at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz shortly after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007. He witnessed how events unfolded at the time, and has closely followed the McCann's 'war' throughout the years.
From Paulo Reis' new blog: https://themccannswar.blogspot.com/
- Lunch at the restaurant "Carvi"
- The "insult" to the McCanns
- Persistent attacks
- PJ: "Pigs", "clowns" and "incompetent"
- The former British police officers who destroyed PJ's reputation
- "Daily Mirror": from praise to fierce criticism in a few days
- The shuttered blinds
- Gerry and Kate alone looking for Maddie
- The thesis of the abduction by a pedophile network
- Portugal, a "paradise for pedophiles"
- Morocco, the ideal place to host Maddie's kidnappers
- The phenomenon of unreliable sightings and witnesses
- The "uselessness" of evidence obtained through DNA
- The private detectives
- The "locators" of bodies
- The "liquidation" of the best sniffer dog of the world
- An "army" of journalists in Huelva
- The false proposal of "plea bargain"
- "Thousands" of missing children in Portugal
- A brilliant misinformation manoeuvre
- The "Team McCann"
- “The Lost Battle”: A "Perfect Campaign" in traditional media, completely destroyed by the Internet
A new factual McCann book is soon to be published, in both Portuguese and English, by a Portuguese journalist who was at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz shortly after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007. He witnessed how events unfolded at the time, and has closely followed the McCann's 'war' throughout the years.
From Paulo Reis' new blog: https://themccannswar.blogspot.com/
The McCann's War
Book Index
- Lunch at the restaurant "Carvi"
- The "insult" to the McCanns
- Persistent attacks
- PJ: "Pigs", "clowns" and "incompetent"
- The former British police officers who destroyed PJ's reputation
- "Daily Mirror": from praise to fierce criticism in a few days
- The shuttered blinds
- Gerry and Kate alone looking for Maddie
- The thesis of the abduction by a pedophile network
- Portugal, a "paradise for pedophiles"
- Morocco, the ideal place to host Maddie's kidnappers
- The phenomenon of unreliable sightings and witnesses
- The "uselessness" of evidence obtained through DNA
- The private detectives
- The "locators" of bodies
- The "liquidation" of the best sniffer dog of the world
- An "army" of journalists in Huelva
- The false proposal of "plea bargain"
- "Thousands" of missing children in Portugal
- A brilliant misinformation manoeuvre
- The "Team McCann"
- “The Lost Battle”: A "Perfect Campaign" in traditional media, completely destroyed by the Internet
MADELEINE MCCANN – REMARKABLE COINCIDENCES? OR PEOPLE WORKING TO A SCRIPT?
4th April, 2019
A. 60-80% sure,
B. Not a tourist,
C. Clothes made of ‘cloth’ or cotton,
D. Cream/beige trousers,
E. Date & time stamp,
F. ‘By the way he was carrying/holding Sean’
by Frank McLintock for the Madeleine McCann Research Group,
March 2019
Amongst
all the witness statements in the released Portuguese Police files,
there are six sets of remarkable and very specific ‘coincidences’.
There were three people who said they were 60% to 80% sure about the identity of someone.
There were three people who said they saw someone and who all said the person they saw was ‘not a tourist’.
There
were five people who referred specifically to the clothes of an
abductor/kidnapper wearing 'cream'/'beige' trousers and clothes made of
'cloth' or cotton.
There
were two people who wove a complex tale about a photograph and who
explained to police, in terms: ‘Look, the date and time stamp proves
when it was taken’.
There
were two people who were prepared to say that they recognised Gerry
McCann as a person they had seen with Madeleine (in one case on 3 May,
in the other case on 5 May), based solely on seeing a film of him
carrying his son Sean down the steps of an aeroplane.
The details are below.
A short analysis follows at the end.
A. 60-80% sure
Martin Smith
Statement to Leicestershire Police, 20 September 2007: “I would be 60%-80% sure that it was Gerard [Gerald] McCann that I met that night carrying a child”.
Martin
Smith: After initially declaring that he would never recognise the man
he said he saw, ever again, over 4 months later he claimed he was 60-80%
sure it was Gerry McCann. But soon after that, he began working on
behalf of the McCanns and their private detectives, helping to draw up
efits for their use: efits that were never released for 5 years
Jane Tanner
Jane
Tanner said that she was 80% sure that a new suspect, later known as
'Monsterman' or 'George Harrison man', drawn by Melissa Little [e-fits]
was the same person she had seen on 3rd May. But
she clearly admitted, originally, that she had never seen the face of
the man she claimed she had seen. So how could she possibly be as much
as 80% sure it was the same man? Moreover, on 13 May 2007, just 10 days
after Madeleine was reported missing, she had told police that she was
adamant that the man she had seen on 3 May 2007 was Robert Murat. Her
credibility on anything top do with Madeleine McCann is zero. Melissa
Little was not as well qualified as she claimed, and was paid by the
McCanns' agent and head of their private investigation, stinking rich
Cheshire businessman Brian Kennedy.

Jane
Tanner: Saw a man carrying a child, but not the man's face. Ten days
later she said she was 'certain' that the man was Robert Murat. Later
she decided she was wrong about that. Then the head of the McCanns'
private investigation, Brian Kennedy, got a forensic artist, Melissa
Little, to draw up an image of another suspect, a scraggy-looking man
with a big moustache. She said she was 80% certain that it was the same
man as the bloke whose face she had been unable to see, back on 3 May
2007
Read more here: https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t16022-madeleine-mccann-remarkable-coincidences-or-people-working-to-a-script
Australian network 9news.com: Mark Saunokonoko's podcasts 'The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann'
1st April, 2019
Description
The Maddie podcast series explores what many believe is the well-known story of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance but this is an investigation of the evidence which could make you question everything you thought you knew about the case.
Podcast 1 Maddie https://omny.fm/shows/maddie/maddie?in_playlist=maddie!podcast
Podcast 2 They've taken her https://omny.fm/shows/maddie/theyve-taken-her?in_playlist=maddie!podcast
Podcast 3 Red flags https://omny.fm/shows/maddie/red-flags?in_playlist=maddie!podcast
Podcast 4 Man with no face https://omny.fm/shows/maddie/man-with-no-face?in_playlist=maddie!podcast
Podcast 5 Eddie and Keela https://omny.fm/shows/maddie/eddie-and-keela?in_playlist=maddie!podcast
A new podcast is broadcast every Monday morning on this link https://www.9news.com.au/maddie
Subscribe to podcast
Description
The Maddie podcast series explores what many believe is the well-known story of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance but this is an investigation of the evidence which could make you question everything you thought you knew about the case.
Podcast 1 Maddie https://omny.fm/shows/maddie/maddie?in_playlist=maddie!podcast
Podcast 2 They've taken her https://omny.fm/shows/maddie/theyve-taken-her?in_playlist=maddie!podcast
Podcast 3 Red flags https://omny.fm/shows/maddie/red-flags?in_playlist=maddie!podcast
Podcast 4 Man with no face https://omny.fm/shows/maddie/man-with-no-face?in_playlist=maddie!podcast
Podcast 5 Eddie and Keela https://omny.fm/shows/maddie/eddie-and-keela?in_playlist=maddie!podcast
A new podcast is broadcast every Monday morning on this link https://www.9news.com.au/maddie
Subscribe to podcast
Operation Grange and the three opposing theories
So we now have three opposing theories
By PeterMac
ONE:
Madeleine gets out of bed, neatly straightens out the sheets and duvet and plumps up the pillow, and arranges her cuddle cat and blanket on the bed
She then slides open the window, and pulls the strap opening the shutters, after which she makes sure to tuck the curtains back down behind the second bed and behind the wicker chair
She then leaves the bedroom, making sure to leave the door open by a few degrees more than her parents had left it.
After pulling back or ducking behind the full length curtains she opens the patio door, turns, closes the curtains again, then pulls the door shut behind her.
Then she opens the child security gate at the top of the stairs, goes through, and from one step down, closes it and locks it again behind her.
She descends and opens the gate out onto the pavement, which she dutifully closes behind her.
She then wanders off and steps out in front of a car which hits her with sufficient force and at sufficient speed either to kill or to seriously injure her rendering her immediately unconscious.
This is not observed or heard by anyone else.
The driver decides to conceal the event, scoops Madeleine up, places her in the car.
He then clears the road of the debris which falls from under wheel arches in a collision, and ensure there are no traces of blood or ‘scuff marks’, nor tyre skid marks, before driving off.
He disposes of the body, and probably the vehicle, at a later date in unknown locations.
This occurs in the time between any of the Tapas 7 passing or re-passing on their way to and from their checks on their own children.
Or
TWO:
a random burglar, intent on scooping up the vanishingly small amount of valuable items a family takes on holiday tries to enter unheard and unseen through the shuttered window, which cannot be opened fully from outside.
Discovering this he elects to go round to the side of the street lit by several sodium lamps, and enters through the small side gate, up the stairs, through the child safety gate and the unlocked patio doors.
He searched the apartment finding 5 British passports among other sundry items. He ignores these.
He then enters the second bedroom and finds the children.
He decides to kill one for reasons unknown.
He does so silently without disturbing either the child, or the twins, who are sleeping.
He places the body behind the sofa and then shaves, cutting himself, and amuses himself swatting mosquitos on the wall behind the sofa.
After 90 minutes he decides the coast is clear and he leaves by the patio doors, carefully closing the curtains and the door behind him, and carries the body down the stairs, and out onto the road. He is careful to close all the gates behind him, and even more careful to leave no fingerprints or other forensic trace.
He dodges the members of the group who are passing and re-passing in all directions on a regular basis, only minutes apart on their way to and from checking their children, and is unobserved by anyone else.
He disappears into the night, taking the long way down towards the rock at the western end of the beach, and is seen by only one family.
He disposes of and conceals the body in a place and in a manner unknown, but undetectable to two police forces with International co-operation, and using the most modern scientific equipment.
Or
THREE:
a random paedophile, intent on taking one particular and very special child tries to enter unheard and unseen through the shuttered window, which cannot be opened fully from outside.
Discovering this he elects to go round to the side of the street lit by several sodium lamps, and enters through the small side gate, up the stairs, through the child safety gate and the unlocked patio doors.
He then enters the bedroom and finds the children.
Without putting on the light he identifies the target of his quest, and lifts her out of bed
He does so silently without disturbing either the child, or the twins, who are sleeping.
He then amuses himself swatting mosquitos on the wall behind the sofa. He also uses 'Cadaverine spray' behind the sofa to confuse police dogs, as a ‘red herring’
Once he decides the coast is clear and he leaves by the patio doors, carefully closing the curtains and the door behind him, and carries the body down the stairs, and out onto the road. He is careful to close all the gates behind him, and even more careful to leave no fingerprints or other forensic trace.
He dodges the members of the group who are passing and re-passing in all directions on a regular basis, only minutes apart, on their way to and from checking their own children, and is unobserved by anyone else.
He disappears into the night, taking the long way down towards the rock at the western end of the beach, and is seen by only one family.
During all this, the child does not wake.
He returns to his Hellish Lair in the lawless hinterland within 10 miles of the village, and remains there for the next 11 years, caring for the girl and bringing her up as his own.
His interest in 3 year olds fades with time, and he moves through the phases of paraphilias to adolescents and young adults. In this he is unique.
Kate and Gerry McCann: Forget the Facts - Focus on the Fallacies
By Retired Police Superintendent, PeterMac for his FREE e-book 'What really happened to Madeleine McCann?' https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/08/chapter-30-forget-facts-focus-on.html
Prime Suspect, Professor Gerry McCann, lies to the nation in his Radio 4 'Mental Health' broadcast
Observations sent to DCI Nicola Wall at Operation Grange by retired police superintendent.
https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t15525p25-exclusive-gerry-mccann-to-open-up-about-his-mental-health-struggles-in-honest-personal-and-sometimes-painful-radio-4-interview#391418
Related links on the 'Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann' forum:
Gerry McCann Radio 4 Interview - 29/09/2018
EXCLUSIVE: Gerry McCann to open up about his mental health struggles in 'honest, personal and sometimes painful' Radio 4 interview
New chapter from PeterMac's FREE e-book: Fake News
UNTRUTH
When a normal
person does it, it is called a Lie
When a child
does it, it is called a Fib
When a person
does it in court, it is called Perjury
When a
politician does it, it is called Spin
When a
journalist does it, it is called Fake
News
But is there
a difference ?
And why do we
not like a Lie,
teach a child to forgo a Fib,
punish Perjury,
but suck up Spin,
and just shrug our shoulders and give up on Fake
News ?
WIKI gives a
reasonable definition of Fake
news. [1]
Fake
news is a neologism often
used to refer to fabricated news. This type of news, found in
traditional news, or fake news websites, has no basis in fact, but is presented as being
factually accurate.
- satire or parody ("no intention to cause harm but has potential to fool")
- false connection ("when headlines, visuals or captions don't support the content")
- misleading content ("misleading use of information to frame an issue or an individual")
- false context ("when genuine content is shared with false contextual information")
- imposter content ("when genuine sources are impersonated" with false, made-up sources)
- manipulated content ("when genuine information or imagery is manipulated to deceive", as with a "doctored" photo)
- fabricated content ("new content is 100% false, designed to deceive and do harm”)
Those who
have followed the Madeleine McCann case quickly became hypersensitive
to the stream of Fake news
and indeed outright lies put out by Team McCann through the compliant
media. It quickly became clear, for example, that anything said by
the spokesman Clarence Mitchell was likely to be the reverse of the
objective and verifiable truth. Lists of his falsehoods have
circulated for years.
How the angle of a pedophile ring was introduced in Maddie McCann's case and amplified by British Media
Monday, 11 June 2018
The
pedophile angle was introduced by the McCann couple in the case of Maddie’s
disappearance, in their first comments about what could have happened to
Madeleine. Kate McCann mentioned it, again, in her book, published in 2011. She
“wrote
of her fear that her daughter was kidnapped by a pedophile (...)
She accused Portuguese police of covering up a series of child abuse cases
before Maddy vanished”, according to “The Mirror”. In the first hours after
she found Madeleine was missing, she thought immediately about that
possibility: “When
she was first stolen, pedophiles were all we could think about, and it ate away
at us”, she said, on a interview with the “Daily Mail”.
I
will give a hint about something I will have, with more detail, on my book,
“The McCann’s War”. During my several stays (“undercovered”) at Praia da Luz, I
managed to found how “Team McCann”, a very small group of experts (brought to
Praia da Luz by Alex
Wollfall, from Bell Pottinger) and the Press advisers of the parents of
Madeleine, “feed” information to British journalists. I had a Honda CB 500, at
the time, so I had some mobility and I was able to track the movements of a few
British journalists.
Some
of them, usually, stay at the terrace of a coffee-shop near
supermarket Batista, close to Ocean Cub, in the afternoon. At night, they entertained themselves,
until quite late, as I witnessed, mainly at a seaside bar and a disco, so they
slept part of the morning. In the afternoon, they spend their time at the
terrace having a couple of beers, surfing the net with their laptops and
talking on their mobile phones. At the end of the afternoon, most of them drove
out. I followed a few, several times, at a safe distance, taking precautions
not to be detected, in my motorcycle.
In
my book, I will explain, I detail, how “McCann Team” made possible that
British
journalists, one week after they arrived at Praia da Luz, the first time
they went to Portugal, for most of them, were able to wrote stories
quoting “Portuguese
police sources”, when they had none, at all. It was through that
“system” that the pedophile angle and other topics were amplified in
stories
published by almost all British newspapers.
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| Alex Wolfall reading a Press Statement to journalists, at Praia da Luz |
Talking
about British Press, in my 37 years of working as a journalist, I read
thousands and thousands of stories from British newspapers and news
magazines, but not
only since Madeleine’s case. Before that, I already had the habit to buy
with
regularity, a couple of English language newspapers, British and
American,
following the advice of a old and experienced colleague, when I started
to work
as a journalist, in 1981. He even told me that, if I was short of money,
to try
to buy at least “The Economist”, which he considered the best news
magazine in
the world.
Before
I started to read British Press with regularity, my idea about British Media
came from a story my late father told me. When he was a young sergeant, drafted
to the Portuguese Army (1943), in the middle of II World War, censorship
was very strict and strong, in the Portuguese Media, due to the
sympathy of Salazar’s dictatorship for Mussolini, Franco and Hitler
regimes. Late at nigh,
in the headquarter of Infantry Regiment Nº5, in Oporto city, my father and a
few trusted friends went to a barrack, far from the main dormitory and turn on
a small radio, listening to Portuguese language broadcast of BBC, on short
wave. “When BBC ‘talks’, the world listens, because they tell the truth”, was a
phrase my late father said, when he told me this story.
So,
let’s say I still have some mixed feelings about British Media. I read many
good stories, investigative stories, in British newspapers, along the years. I
also read the most unbelievable, fabricated and manipulated stories, made only
to sell newspapers.
Looking at Maddie’s case coverage through the lens of UK journalists, over the past eleven years is precisely the subject of my book, “The McCann’s War”. I have made a first selection of around 120 stories published on British Press, ranging from the comic to the absurd, from the most chocking to the clearest evidence of “strange forces” working behind the scenes and I chose a few dozen to be published.
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John Redwood second version of the text about Madeleine McCann case. Unfortunately,
I didn’t' make a "screenshot" of the first version...
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This
is a good example (and also a preview of a story that will be in my book) that
I referred
on a post in my blog, on September 18, 2017. John Redwood, a MP conservative,
on September 10th, published a post in his blog, “John Redwood's Diary” (the link
at my blog, in this post, goes to a blank page, Redwood’s blog has this news Internet address). Any
search in the new blog about McCann, Maddie or Madeleine, has no results.
The
tittle of the post from September 18, 2017, was: "The McCanns - plenty of
theories, little evidence”. He asked a couple of questions, like these:
“Can they (the McCann) clear away any doubt over whether entry was forced into
the holiday home? Were there no screams or disturbances as the little girl was
taken? Did no-one see her at any point as she was carried away? How did the
abductor timed the removal, given the fact that parents and friends were
returning to keep an eye or ear open for the children?”
I
was surprised, because it was the first time I saw a British politician to ask
these uncomfortable questions addressed to Maddie's parents, so I kept the blog
open in a separate window of my browser, and checked it, almost every
half-hour. I had a feeling something will happen, soon. And it did. After
around five hours, the blog just vanished and, a couple of hours later, it
appeared again. The initial text was deleted and replaced by another one. In
the new text, John Redwood changed the initial paragraphs and replaced them
with this words:
"It
is not usually wise to venture into questions of individual guilt or innocence.
These are properly matters for the courts, not for politicians. I do so briefly
today because I have never seen so much speculation and so many press stories,
created by the spin doctors of the parents and by mysterious sources for the
Portuguese authorities, when there is so little fact behind it all."
(...)
“The
Portuguese side, after four months, seem to have decided that the little girl
is dead and the parents were involved in the death. To prove this it would be
helpful to have a body, and an autopsy which shows how she died (...) It
demonstrates little police competence that this most closely watched couple was
able according to sources to keep the body from police attention immediately
after the disappearance, and then to move the body many days later."
After,
he reproduced part of the initial text, but with a different conclusion: “This
is a heart rending story. The two sides seemed determined to damage each other.
The truth remains a casualty. Maybe the McCann should employ a private
detective rather than a spin doctor, to find evidence of the abduction they are
sure happened and the trail to her present whereabouts. In the meantime with so
few facts it is difficult to say what happened, apart from understanding the
grief that the loss of Madeleine is causing.”
May
be somebody phoned Mr. John Redwood and “explained” him that his initial “approach” to Maddie’s case was not the best one for the future of his political
career…
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