£1m McCann court battle

12 December 2011
Scottish Daily Record
Tom Worden

GERRY and Kate McCann's £1million lawsuit against the cop who bungled the hunt for Madeleine will be heard in two months.

The civil case against Goncalo Amaral will take place in Lisbon on February 9 and 10, a source close to the couple said yesterday.

Amaral, 52, ran the investigation into the three-year-old's disappearance in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz in 2007 for five months before being removed.

He later made a fortune selling a book and TV documentary claiming the youngster was dead and wrongly accusing her parents of staging a cover-up. The McCanns lodged a 36-page writ in the Portuguese capital in June 2009 accusing him of libel and breaching their human rights.

The source said: "Amaral has made the McCann family's life hell and himself rich in the process.

"Kate and Gerry want to stop him spouting malicious lies about them and profiting from their pain.

"The only way to do that is by going to court."

In their writ, the McCanns describe the now-retired detective as a self-obsessed, manipulative money-grabber with no morals.

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Gonçalo Amaral's Book Ban Overturned -McCanns Have Not Returned Books

22 Aug 2011
 

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The journey is not an easy one

An Emotional Gonçalo Amaral Describes His Family's Suffering

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Le commissaire accuse les parents

Le commissaire accuse les parents
T.B.
4 August 2011 
Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France 
French 

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The commissioner accused parents

With its impressive stature and his bald head, he is the absolute nightmare of spouses McCann. Former commissioner of the Portuguese Judicial Police of Portimão, Goncalo Amaral directed the investigation on the disappearance of Maddie for several months. A professional failure, but also a good source of trouble : disowned by his hierarchy after having publicly criticized the attitude of the English police, he was prematurely departs from the investigations. The investigator is in spite of everything sure to hold the truth. After resigning from the police to regain his freedom to speak, he delivered his version in a book for the prosecution against the parents of the little girl, published in England in 2008.

The thesis of Goncalo Amaral is clear : Maddie is dead accidentally by the negligence of the parents who would have then done disappear its corpse and put in scene the thesis of the abduction. The book offers no evidence, but rather a series of indices, to begin with what he called the "Contradictions in the statements of the spouses McCann". The policeman also insists on the traces of blood found in the apartment. "Unfortunately, it is a corpse that he must seek", assigned to us-it in May 2009 , when the output of the book in France * .

Kate and Gerry McCann have continued to fight to prohibit the dissemination of this book. After having won the case, they were dismissed on appeal by a court of appeal Portuguese, in the name of freedom of expression. In 2010, the former policeman has published a second book, non-translated in France and entitled "The English Gag " (le gag anglais). This time, it puts in question the English authorities to have weighed on the investigation. When we had met in Paris, he was already part of its criticism of the general staff of the British police : " n Great Britain, the vision of the folder is political ," he complained.

* " Maddie : the investigation prohibited ",
Bourin Editor.
Lisbon (Portugal), July 24, 2008.
Goncalo Amaral had published a book in which he defended the thesis of the accidental death of Maddie McCann.

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Portuguese police: "flabby, unintelligent and plain slack" ? Oh really?

Too many ‘if onlys’
08 July 2011
The Witness

Madeleine is the disquieting account of the disappearance and subsequent search for the British girl Madeleine ­McCann, written by her mother Kate, and includes excerpts of the ­diary Kate kept over that harrowing period.

It’s a riveting personal account of the incident, which many of us have read much about in the years since Madeleine was snatched, but at the same time, the enormity and horror of what happened to the gorgeous three-year-old, and what might have happened to her subsequently, make it a harrowing read. Madeleine’s happy wide-eyed photo on the cover is heart-wrenching.

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Goncalo Amaral regarding video monitoring system

Gonçalo Amaral sugere a instalação de um sistema de videovigilância nas principais estradas algarvias e respectivos acessos
26 June 2011
Jornal de Notícias
Portuguese

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Goncalo Amaral suggests the installation of a video monitoring system on the main roads in the algarve and the respective accesses

Mixed Teams will not solve crime in the Algarve

Goncalo Amaral says that there is not a strategy to combat insecurity, but it only answers to one-off events. Accuses institutions of inertia and do not react to accusations false abroad

INTERVIEW

Oantigo coordinator of the Department of Portimao the Judicial Police says that the insecurity in the Algarve because of the violent crime resulting from the lack of strategy of the security forces and the agents of tourism. Goncalo Amaral, 51 years old, known to have investigated the disappearance of Maddie, rejects the solution decided in this month of creating mixed teams with agents of several policemen and accuses the authorities of not reacting to complaints alarmist, for example in England.

IT needs a "special team", the likeness of created by the Attorney-general 'S Office for violence on the night of the Port, in order to fight the violent crimes in the Algarve and reassure the tourists?

I understand the question. But, contrary to what some claim, the Algarve does not need a special plan of security, much less for special teams - which only serve to increase the wages of their components - not even more human and material resources to combat the criminal phenomenon that, in truth, has gained prominence. What we need is to define a strategic plan that involves promoters and tour operators, mayors, security forces and services.

But this takes time and the holidays are there…

We must react to every crime, with a rapid and effective response, but it is impossible not to detect, to study the phenomenon, preventing it and forming criminal investigators capable of acting together - something that is not made. It is true that the conviction of security has suffered earthquakes and much by force of inertia of the institutions, not to promote and preserve the Algarve as a safe destination. AND also of the forces and security services to the act only reactivamente, the flavor of punctual event criminal.

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Gonçalo Amaral acquitted of the crime of Failure to report.

PAÍS
CASO
19 June 2011
Diário de Notícias
Portuguese

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JUDGEMENT
> The case of aggression against Leonor Cipriano was tried, but the court did not determine the authorship of the attacks.

Gonçalo Amaral
> Ex-inspector was acquitted of the crime of Failure to report. With him were tried four more inspectors.

JUSTICE
> On the murder and concealment of a body, mother and uncle of Joana were sentenced to 18 years.


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JULGAMENTO
› O caso das agressões a Leonor Cipriano foi julgado, mas o tribunal não determinou a autoria das agressões.

GONÇALO AMARAL
› Ex-inspector foi absolvido do crime de omissão de denúncia. Com ele foram julgados mais quatro inspectores.

JUSTIÇA
› Pelo homicídio e ocultação de cadáver, mãe e tio de Joana foram condenados a 18 anos.

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Joana Case: Évora refutes "nullity and unconstitutional" the resource that sentences confirmed

Caso Joana: Relação de Évora refuta "nulidades e inconstitucionalidades" no recurso que confirmou penas
18 June 2011
Agência Lusa - Serviço Internacional
Portuguese

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Lisbon, June 18 (AFP) - The Évora refuted the existence of "unconstitutionality and nullity" in ruling that upheld the conviction of former inspectors of the Judicial Police (PJ) in the process of aggressions against Leonor Cipriano, Joana's mother, child missing in the Algarve in 2004.

On 18 March this year, the Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of former PJ inspector Gonçalo Amaral and António Nunes Cardoso, with suspended sentences, the Court of Faro in 2009, but the latter required the former agent "to reform and clarification of Judgement. "

According to judicial sources, the Évora understood that "lacks reason" the application of Antonio Nunes Cardoso, sentenced to two years and three months imprisonment with suspended sentence for the crime of forgery of a document.

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BCC response to Complaints re: lie about Goncalo Amaral is NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Where is the FORMAL APOLOGY FROM BBC?

Fact: Dr. Goncalo Amaral did NOT say "Fuck the McCanns".

Mike O' Sullivan, his producer, "senior colleagues" and any BBC spokespersons involved need to issue a formal apology and ensure corrections are printed in all of the news sources listed below.

This is NOT GOOD ENOUGH, BBC:

"Further action
The Editor of the programme has discussed the outcome with the producer and reporter involved. In future, the team plans to use interpreters if clips from interviews are unclear."
  

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Update: The F*** the McCanns Scandal

UPDATE:

Freitag, 3. Juni 2011
Little victories
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Unterdenteppichgekehrt Blog
BBC - ECU Ruling: East Midlands Today, BBC1 (East Midlands), 12 January 2011

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