The Truth of the Lie - Documentary

Documentary with English subtitles
Uploaded to YouTube April 30, 2009 
by "anotheroneforjustice"
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The Truth of the Lie - Documentary (1 of 6)




The Truth of the Lie - Goncalo Amaral's documentary (2 of 6)



The Truth of the Lie - Goncalo Amaral's documentary (3 of 6)



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The Truth of the Lie - Goncalo Amaral's documentary (5 of 6)



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Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie

Twitter users libeling Goncalo Amaral

Twitter is an interesting social networking site.  The McCann case has been discussed by many "tweeters"; the topic found by the hash-tag "#McCann" or "#McCanns".

There are a number of people who are apparently determined to prevent Twitter participants from discussing the case in a factual manner, and whose motives and integrity are questionable (to say the least).

Goncalo Amaral is frequently their target and they are clearly part of the effort to discredit him.

Here are examples of the type of  lies/libel they are tweeting.  Note "pinkypoo666"'s tweet stating:
 

"This is what Amaral does to ppl when he questions them" http://aeiou.expresso.pt/online/Storage/ng1011060.jpg"

  

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When confronted with the FACT that Cipriano never accused Amaral of the ALLEGED "assault", "pinkypoo666" tweeted this:
  

"this is what Amaral & PJ do 2 people who dont confess, even if innocent.  He likes 2 tie things up quickly so can go to pub"

  

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Although little is being currently published in the mainstream press regarding Goncalo Amaral, it is obvious that "behind the scenes" there are ongoing efforts to discredit him and others who do not subscribe to the "abduction" theory in the McCann case.

Blogs and websites have been created to attack Dr. Amaral and the PJ, attempts are being made to start rumors, statements are taken out of context or deliberately misquoted and lies (including the ones above) are rampant.

The path to truth is a straight and narrow course.  It certain appears that many people involved in the defense of the McCanns do not choose to walk it.

(NOTE: The post date on this has been changed.  It does not deserve to remain as the first post on a blog entitled "Truth be Told".  The date has been edited from when it was posted (8 March 2011) as changing the post date is the only way I'm aware of to rearrange the order posts appear on Blogger.)


 

Continue Reading... Labels: Cipriano case, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Leonor Cipriano, Libel case

Minha Dignidade

I'm working on a project that is requiring me to re-read hundreds of articles published about "The Truth of the Lie", Goncalo Amaral, and the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

In light of the recent wikileaks cable related to the McCann case, I am wondering whether there will be any apologies issued by the British Press - or by specific reporters who have amplified the McCann's attacks on Dr. Amaral.

It is now public knowledge that Goncalo Amaral was NOT solely responsible for suspicions of parental involvement in the death and concealment of Madeleine McCann's body.  Read the cable for yourself  HERE (or elsewhere on the net - it can be found many places including the various wikileaks mirrors - search 07LISBON2527).

To this day, the McCann attacks focus on Goncalo Amaral, rather than on the British police (who, along with their Portuguese colleagues developed evidence against the McCanns).  They have caused the Amaral family great hardship, they have attempted to completely destroy his reputation - on what grounds?

The Truth of the Lie does not waver from the official investigation and its conclusions were not only the conclusions of the writer.

It is long past time that the British Press takes its "code of conduct" policies seriously.  Report the facts and correct all errors in previous reports. A good place to start would be to correct the articles claiming the McCanns were "cleared" and that Goncalo Amaral was a "disgraced cop".  The McCanns were not cleared - their arguido status was lifted and the case SHELVED until new evidence comes to light.  And Dr. Amaral has not been the sole source of the allegations against the McCanns. 

There should be no tolerance for what the media has done in this case.  From the Press Association to the BBC to the smallest regional newspaper, the Press has entirely destroyed its credibility.

Here is an interesting example of an article that looks quite different when read in light of the wikileaks cable:

A copper without shame

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And here is a site where you don't need to wade through that particular reporter's spin regarding what Goncalo Amaral wrote. Read the book yourself and do not allow people like Richard Pendlebury of the Daily Mail to determine your reaction.  (As my wise father taught me and as I have taught my children: Never, ever, ever allow yourself to be lead by the nose by the Media;  not in the case of Dr. Amaral and not in regard to any other issue.)

Maddie: The Truth of the Lie (English Translation)

Continue Reading... Labels: Daily Mail, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Policia Judiciaria, Press Association, WikiLeaks

"I haven't lost my dignity"

30 December 2010
Alexandra Ferreira
Nova Gente, 20.12.2010 (paper edition only)
Translated by "Astro" - Joana Morais Blog

Amaral Family Christmas 2010

Continue Reading... Labels: Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral

Madeleine McCann deserves justice

Maddie Case : “Portugal has a Weak Government Faced With the English ‘Friends’.
(Translated by Ines - Maddie Case Files)
23 December 2010
Correio da Manhã

The ex–inspector of the Madeleine McCann case from the Polícia Judiciária, Gonçalo Amaral, returned this Thursday to point his finger at the Portuguese government, after revelations from WikiLeaks last week that told that it was the British police itself that found evidence to incriminate the McCann couple for the disappearance of their daughter, on the night of 3rd May 2007, in Praia da Luz, Algarve.

According to what Gonçalo Amaral said to the Efe agency,

Portugal “has a weak government faced with the English ‘friends’, which is servile and submissive, and that the archiving of the investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Madeleine McCann constitutes a shame for our country and for the Portuguese legal system”.

The ex – inspector, who has already told Correio da Manhã that the British police have not told everything to the PJ, is convinced that London pressured Lisbon to remove him from his post in order to avoid accusations against Gerry and Kate McCann.

Gonçalo Amaral is confident that the case will be completely cleared up, but that it is necessary to re-iniate the police investigation and re-open the case.

“Madeleine McCann deserves justice. Her probable death and mysterious disappearance cannot depend only on political will”, he said.

ORIGINAL (Portuguese):

Caso Maddie: “Portugal tem Governo débil face a ‘amigos’ ingleses”

O ex-inspector do caso de Madeleine McCann na Polícia Judiciária, Gonçalo Amaral, voltou esta quinta-feira a apontar o dedo ao Governo português, depois das revelações do ‘WikiLeaks’, na semana passada, que dão conta de que foi a própria polícia inglesa que encontrou provas a incriminar o casal McCann pelo desaparecimento da filha Madeleine, na noite de 3 de Maio de 2007, na Praia da Luz, Algarve

Continue Reading... Labels: Al Hoffman, Alexander Ellis, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Policia Judiciaria, WikiLeaks

Maddie sightings and media madness

Maddie sightings and media madness
December 21, 2010
Len Port Blog

"A modest group of people in Portugal have also been subjected to injustices, unfounded allegations and smears in connection with the Madeleine McCann investigation, but they have had no outlet for complaint - and their side of the story has gone totally unreported until now."

Please read original post at the source.

• David Edgar apparently lead the "surveillance" as it was Edgar who sent a report to the PJ regarding this.

The witnesses were:

• Jean Godwin, a retired care home worker from Widnes, Cheshire called the McCann's "hotline" in 2008 and informed the McCann's private investigators that in September 2008 she spotted a 'gaunt' blonde girl wearing a black wig being dragged by 'gipsy women' .  Mrs Godwin described the first woman as being "an 'obese' size 30, in her mid-to-late 40s with 'dirty and unkempt' red hair. The second woman was around 60, with unwashed brown hair, and even fatter."("The McCanns' investigators believed the red-haired woman was Yvone Albino, a cleaner from Silves.")
  
  
• Jeni Weinberger, from Salisbury, Wiltshire who claimed she saw a woman resembling Mrs. Albino outside the McCann apartment. (Note: Weinbergers were among the names on the released PJ investigation files - on the list of people staying at the Ocean Club at the time Madeleine disappeared.)

Reporters:

• Arthur Martin
   
• Jerry Lawton
   
• Martin Fricker
   
• Nick Fagge
   
• Antonella Lazzeri
   

Articles related to this include:

• Riddle of Maddie and 'the fat gipsy women'
  Arthur Martin
  4 March 2010
  Daily Mail
   
  
• Snatcher gipsies disguised Maddie using black wig
  Jerry Lawton, Chief Crime Corresondent, in Portugal
  4 March 2010
  Daily Star
  (Note headline on website is "Exclusive: New clues lead McCann private eyes to an old deserted shack"
   
  
• Was this rag doll given to Maddie by her captors?
  Antonella Lazzeri
  4 March 2010
  The Sun
   
  
• It was Maddy ..I'm 100% sure
  Martin Fricker
  4 March 2010
  Mirror
   
  
• Madeleine 'held in remote shack'
  Nick Fagge
  4 March 2010
  The Daily Express
   

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Al Hoffman, Alexander Ellis, Antonella Lazzeri, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Ivone Albino, Jorge Martins, Maria Alice Silveira, Policia Judiciaria, The Truth of the Lie, WikiLeaks

MCCANNS REJECT WIKILEAKS CLAIMS

MCCANNS REJECT WIKILEAKS CLAIMS
James Murray
19 December 2010
The Express on Sunday

Excerpt:

Kate and Gerry McCann have reacted angrily to revelations by WikiLeaks that alleged British police had been helping to build a case against them over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. In a statement on their Find Madeleine website, they said:

"The WikiLeaks 'news' this week has led to the repetition of many unfounded smears. This has been seized on as an opportunity by those who wish to compound our suffering and hamper our efforts, including the very person who was entrusted with finding our daughter." 

The couple are locked in a bitter civil dispute with former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral over claims he made in his book, Maddie: The Truth Of The Lie. ...


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Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Al Hoffman, Alexander Ellis, Express, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Policia Judiciaria, WikiLeaks

Madeleine McCann campaign sees funds dwindle

17 December 2010 
05:42 AM
Press Association National Newswire
Sam Marsden, Press Association Chief Reporter

Kate and Gerry McCann's fund to help find their missing daughter Madeleine saw its income drop by nearly two-thirds last year.

The amount raised for the cause fell from £629,181 in 2008-09 to £233,099 in 2009-10, newly-published accounts filed to Companies House show.

More than £421,000 was spent on the campaign to locate Madeleine and merchandise costs last year, leaving the balance standing at £470,034 at the end of March.

The McCanns, both 42, from Rothley, Leicestershire, spoke last month of their fears that the dwindling of the fund would leave them unable to continue paying private detectives to search for their daughter.

Since then they have signed a lucrative deal to write a book about Madeleine's disappearance, with all proceeds going to the fund.

Madeleine's Fund was launched a fortnight after the little girl vanished from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal, on May 3 2007.

Donations flooded in from supporters around the world who wanted to do something to help her parents, and the income for 2007-08 totalled £1,846,178.

Last year the fund paid for the private investigators, a telephone hotline for the public to pass on information and the McCanns' legal battle to ban a book about what happened to Madeleine by former Portuguese detective Goncalo Amaral.

The fund's directors wrote in a preface to the 2009-10 accounts: "We continue to have a number of loyal donors supporting the search for Madeleine. For this we are grateful.

"As expected, income in the new financial year is lower than last year and we continue to review all our expenses to ensure value for money.

"An event held early in 2010 was successful in raising much-needed income to add to the decreasing funds.

"As anticipated, the costs of the search during the year continue to be higher than the annual income."

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Press Association, The Truth of the Lie

English suspects of withholding relevant evidence

16 December 2010
Correio da Manhã
Henrique Machado
See Joana Morais Blog for translation.

Correio da Manhã

Gonçalo Amaral believes that the British police did not disclose all that they have found to the PJ

[Preliminary summary - to be updated / edited as needed:]

• The British Ambassador in Lisbon [Ellis] admitted that British police found incriminating evidence against the McCanns as was revealed in Wikileaks.
   
  
• Amaral states that he does not know what this evidence is, but that it could have been hidden.
   
  
• Gaspar Statement
  
  
• The Gaspar statement was sent to the Leicestershire Police on 16 May 2007
   
  
• The British police did not forward the Gaspar statement detailing pedophile suspicions re: David Payne until October 2007 [after Amaral was removed from the case]
   
  
• Credit Cards/McCann relationship/Madeleine medical history
  
• The British police told the PJ that there was nothing relevant in regard to the McCann's or the Tapas 7 credit cards, the "relationship between Kate and Gerry or in Madeleine's medical history
   
  
• Eddie/Keela: British Sniffer Dogs
   
  
• Amaral does not believe that the evidence of which Ambassador Ellis spoke has anything to do with the British sniffer dogs (who detected blood and cadaver odour in the trunk of the car rented by the McCanns) because at the time of the conversation reported in the cable (28 September 2007), the Birmingham Forensic Services Lab had already stated that the blood traces did not correspond to Madeleine
   
  
• Amaral has serious doubts as to the DNA results obtained in the Birmingham Forensic Services Laboratory
   
  
• Evidence withheld?
   
  
• In Amaral's opinion, the evidence Ambassador Ellis referred to "must be something else" - which the English police did not hand over to the PJ
   
  
• Amaral's opinion is that the most probable hypothesis is with regard to David Payne
   
  
• David Payne
   
  
• In 2005 in Majorca, David Payne allegedly rubbed his nipple and put his finger in his mouth while looking at Madeleine, suggesting a sexual act and asking Gerry if his daughter did that
   
  
• This act was witnessed by English doctor [Gaspar} who informed the British police on 16 May 2007
   
  
• The PJ only learned of this in October 2007 when Paulo Rebelo's group went to England to question the Tapas 7
   
  
• David Payne was the only one of the group who was heard by the British Police without the presence of the Portuguese police
   
  
• Payne was the last person, beside the McCanns, to Madeleine alive
   
  
• Payne allegedly liked to bathe the children
   
  
• Amaral told CM that he is gathering together new evidence in order to force the reopening of the investigation
   
   
  

Continue Reading... Labels: Al Hoffman, Alexander Ellis, Forensic Science Services, Gaspar statement, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Leicestershire Police, Policia Judiciaria, WikiLeaks

Gonçalo de Sousa Amaral

Gonçalo de Sousa Amaral
Author Profile

(Google Translation)
Gonçalo Amaral de Sousa was born on 2 October 1959 in the village of Torredeita near Viseu. He studied engineering at ISEL and IST. In 1992/1997 he studied at night time, the Law School of Lisbon, has a degree in Legal Science and Criminal. He joined the Administrative Service in 1973, aged 14.

In November 1981 started the training course for officers of the Judicial Police, having taken office in 1982 as an Agent. In 1997/1998 he attended the course of Sub-Inspectors of the PJ, being ranked first among 100 students. In 2000/2001 he completed the course coordinators PJ. Held office in Lisbon, Algarve and the Azores.

For years he pursued, effectively, all sorts of violent and organized crime: thefts, robberies, murders, drug trafficking. He had a spotless career, widely recognized by colleagues and superiors, as well as judges and prosecutors, by court officials and lawyers, who had the pleasure of dealing for many years.

Its maxim that "justice is done in silence." Operational Coordinator of the investigations was the 'Maddie case', between 3 May and 2 October 2007, having then been removed from the investigation, an act unprecedented in the history of the Judicial Police.

He retired on July 1, 2008, after 27 years of his police career in order to restore the fullness of their freedom of expression on the case investigating and contributing to the extent possible, to establish the truth and material achievement of justice.

It is considered a birth by Beira, Algarve Lisbon by migration and by adoption. (My guess is that this is more correctly translated to mean something close to "He considers himself a resident of Beira by birth and of Lisbon and the Algarve by migration and adoption.")

He is married and has three daughters.

ORIGINAL PORTUGUESE TEXT:

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Policia Judiciaria, The English Gag, The Truth of the Lie