McCann judgment that opposes the Gonçalo Amaral suspended

1/18/2013 Posted by Winnower

McCann judgment that opposes the Gonçalo Amaral suspended 
Decision relates to tentative agreement
TVI24
18 January 2013

Julgamento que opõe McCann a Gonçalo Amaral suspenso

(Google translation)

The trial that pits the McCanns Gonçalo Amaral, in which Madeleine's parents claim compensation of € 1.2 million for allegedly defaming the former PJ inspector, is suspended in an attempt to settlement.

Judicial source told Lusa that the beginning of the trial, scheduled for 24 and 25 of this month, at Civil Court of Lisbon, "was suspended because the parties are seeking an agreement."

The order of the court to defer the suspension was signed at the end of last week, so now follows a period of six months, after which, in the absence of agreement between Gonçalo Amaral and the parents of missing child in 2007, in the Algarve, will be marked audience.

The trial began this process was postponed twice, the first of which the February 9, 2012. The judge later marked the beginning of the trial in the Palais de Justice for September 13 of that year, with three more scheduled sessions, but did not take place either due to unavailability of attorney Gonçalo Amaral, undergo an examination under anesthesia to the stomach.

In this action, which prompted the request for seizure of goods Gonçalo Amaral as a precautionary measure, Kate and Gerry McCann still complain protection of rights, freedoms and guarantees.

In related case the Civil Court of Lisbon decided in January 2010 to maintain a ban on the book 'Maddie - The Truth of the Lie' written by Goncalo Amaral, and video with the same title based on a documentary broadcast on TVI.

The ban of the book and the video, which presents the thesis of Gonçalo Amaral involvement of Kate and Gerry McCann in the disappearance of her daughter with the concealment of the corpse had been provisionally enacted September 9, 2009.

The October 19, 2010, the Lisbon Court of Appeal annulled the decision of Civil Court, after which the McCanns appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice (STJ). 

In its judgment of 18 March 2011, the Supreme Court of Appeal upheld the decision. 

Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, in an apartment in a holiday village of Praia da Luz, where she was vacationing with her parents and two twin siblings.

At the time of the disappearance, Goncalo Amaral was coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Judicial Police of Portimão.

Kate and Gerry McCann, who have always claimed that the child was abducted, were made defendants in September 2007.

The case was closed for lack of evidence, in July 2008, although prosecutors admit reopening if new data emerge about the disappearance of Madeleine.

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Força, Dr. Amaral. O mundo observa e espera por justiça.

9/10/2012 Posted by Winnower


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McCanns will miss cop's trial

9/09/2012 Posted by Winnower

McCanns will miss cop's trial
9 September 2012
Daily Star

The parents of Madeleine McCann will avoid a showdown with a former police chief who wrongly claimed they lied about their daughter’s disappearance.

Kate and Gerry McCann are hoping to win a £1million libel payout from disgraced Goncalo Amaral, who they say has made their life hell.

But the McCanns, both 44, are staying away from this week’s trial in the Portuguese capital Lisbon.

Mr Amaral, 55, is attending the four-day hearing, which is scheduled to start on Thursday.

Kate and Gerry branded the ex-officer “poisonous” for claiming in a once-banned book that Maddie is dead and that they lied about her disappearance.

Their daughter vanished in Praia da Luz, Portugal, five years ago, aged three.

The McCanns’ lawyer Isabel Duarte said yesterday: “Kate and Gerry are not needed in Portugal for the trial.”

She said they were confident of victory, adding: “We reasonably expect compensation for the dreadful damages this book has brought the family.”

Any payout will be spent entirely on the continuing global search for Maddie, the couple said.

Mr Amaral led the bungled investigation but was sacked for criticising British police.

Kate wrote in her 2011 book Madeleine: “That man has caused us so much upset and anger.”
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Maddie McCann trial 'ruined our marriage'

9/09/2012 Posted by Winnower

Maddie McCann trial 'ruined our marriage'
9 September 2012
Express
James Murray

The wife of former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral today reveals how the libel action brought against him by Kate and Gerry McCann wrecked their 10-year marriage.

The McCanns will begin the action in Lisbon on Thursday seeking £1million damages over claims about their missing daughter Madeleine.


Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Express, Mr Amaral’s wife Sofia, who is separated from her husband, said:
‘‘He is almost broke and the strain of all this legal action has made him ill and ended our marriage.”

Kate and Gerry have decided not to attend but Mr Amaral, 54, will be there for the four-day trial even though he does not have to give evidence.

He insists he does not have a secret pot of “Maddie gold” from the publication of his book The Truth Of The Lie and will defend his claim in it that Madeleine could have died accidentally in the Praia da Luz apartment on the Algarve on May 3, 2007, aged three.

Sofia added:
“I am really worried about his health.”

   
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Updates re: Amaral's The Truth of the Lie (Joana Morais Blog)

3/14/2012 Posted by Winnower

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

8/24/2011 Posted by Winnower

22 Aug 2011
 
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Gonçalo Amaral issues plea for Kate McCann to "tell the truth"

5/10/2011 Posted by Winnower

10 May 2011
Gonçalo Amaral issues plea for Kate McCann to "tell the truth"
EXCLUSIVE to mccannfiles.com
By Nigel Moore

FORMER Portuguese police co-ordinator Goncalo Amaral has issued a plea for Kate McCann to "tell the truth" and spoken of his delight at having his freedom of speech returned.

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Supreme Court turns down McCanns' request

3/18/2011 Posted by Winnower

Supreme Court turns down McCanns' request (English translation courtesy of "Astro")
18 March 2011
Sol (Portuguese original article)
Margarida Davim


Kate and Gerry McCann wanted the Supreme Court of Justice to nullify a decision by the Appeals Court that allowed for the book by Gonçalo Amaral, ‘The Truth of the Lie’, to be distributed. Nonetheless, the judges have refused the request.

Former Polícia Judiciária inspector Gonçalo Amaral will again be able to sell the book about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, ‘The Truth of the Lie’, which was taken off shelves after an injunction that was filed by the parents of the little English girl that disappeared in Praia da Luz was accepted by a lower court.

The Supreme Court judges refused the request for an “exceptional review” of the Appeals Court’s decision, which overturned the injunction that had been filed by Kate and Gerry McCann.

The counsellors’ decision may be appealed to the Constitutional Court, but that will have no suspensive effect, which means that Kate and Gerry McCann will have to return every copy of Amaral’s book that they possess.

If they do not comply, they may even incur in a crime of disobedience.

Contacted by Sol, the McCanns’ lawyer, Isabel Duarte, refused to comment on this judicial decision, because she hadn’t been notified yet.
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Index on Censorship

11/10/2010 Posted by Winnower

Index on Censorship
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7324 2522
Address:
Index on Censorship
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10/21/2010 Posted by Winnower

Portugal anula la prohibición del libro sobre Madeleine; El comisario luso que investigó la desaparición de la menor sostiene en él que sus padres están implicados; Desaparecida desde 2007
21 October 2010
Diario de Mallorca
Spanish

Portugal cancels ban on Madeleine's book, The Luso commissioner who investigated the disappearance of the minor argues in it that parents are involved, Missing since 2007 A Portuguese court today overturned the ban on sales of the book on the Madeleine case by former commissioner who investigated, Gonçalo Amaral, which relates to the British girl's parents with their hypothetical death.

The lawyer for the parents of Madeleine McCann, Elizabeth Duarte, told Reuters the decision, contrary to the claim filed by its customers, today issued the Industrial Relations Court of Lisbon after an appeal by Amaral.

The girl's mother, Kate McCann considers "incredible" this court decision, said the lawyer, who is studying to see the possible measures to adopt.

Madeleine disappeared on May 3, 2007 in southern Portugal and parents organized a global media campaign to find her, but suggests in his book Amaral, appeared a year later, the girl could have died accidentally and the body was hidden. The work, "Maddie, the truth lies," was suspended as a precautionary measure on September 9, 2009 and the prohibition of sale in Portugal, also extended to translations in other countries, was confirmed on 18 February when Lisbon Civil Court found in favor of the complaint for defamation and damage which had brought the parents.

The pair of British doctors, paving and other legal action against Amaral claim for compensation for the impact of his book, disagrees with this new ruling, his lawyer said.

The former inspector, who took early retirement following this case failed to prove the involvement of parents in the alleged disappearance of the girl by the Portuguese Attorney General, which closed the investigation on July 21, 2008 and acquitted the McCanns of the suspicions against them formal. 

The couple always defended his innocence and accused Amaral not only have made them a great moral damage, but have hampered with his accusations, the search for the girl. 

Last May, with the third anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine, the McCanns reappeared in several European television channels and print media to insist that they believe their daughter alive and seeking help to find it. 

The girl disappeared while she slept with two smaller twins in a holiday apartment in Playa de la Luz in the Algarve while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant with a group of friends.


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Ultimately there is democracy

10/20/2010 Posted by Winnower

Decisão de anular
20 October 2010
Açoriano Oriental
Portuguese
LUSA

The former Inspector of Judicial Police (PJ (Goncalo Amaral found yesterday that the decision of the Court of Appeal to annul the prohibition of sale of the book "Maddie - The Truth Lies" means "the strengthening of Portuguese democracy."

Gonçalo Amaral is pleased that "ultimately there is democracy," and confessed to the agency Lusa that he hoped the judges of Appeal reversed the decision of Lisbon Civil Court to prohibit the sale of the book after an injunction filed by the parents of Madeleine McCann.

"The book is an exercise of citizenship and freedom of expression. Relationship With this decision, it was the Portuguese who won democracy, as the ban on the sale of the book was unconstitutional," said Goncalo Amaral Lusa.

The former PJ inspector still classified as "very important" decision of the ratio for the two cases brought by the parents of British girl who disappeared in 2007 in the Algarve, still no date set for commencement of trial.
In the civil case, Kate and Gerry McCann claim 1.2 million for defamation, while in another case Gonçalo Amaral is accused of breach of secrecy.

The decision to cancel the prohibition of sale of the book "Maddie - The Truth Lies" and the video with the same title, based on a documentary broadcast on TVI, was yesterday reported by the Lusa agency judicial source.

With the decision, the book and video can be re-marketed and Goncalo Amaral, who defends the thesis in the book of involvement of Kate and Gerry McCann in the disappearance of her daughter in May 2007, a holiday apartment in the Algarve, you can return to speak publicly in the case. 

The decision to ban the sale of the book and the video had been decreed on January 14 by Judge Rodrigues Cunha, of 7. Th the Lisbon Civil Court, ruled that the injunction filed by the McCanns.

The ban was provisionally enacted September 9, 2009, and the main action, the McCann family claimed the protection of the rights, freedoms and guarantees.

"The book is an exercise of citizenship and freedom of expression," says author


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Portugal cancels ban on Madeleine's book

10/20/2010 Posted by Winnower

Cultura y Sociedad
Portugal anula la prohibición del libro sobre Madeleine; El comisario luso que investigó la desaparición de la menor sostiene en él que sus padres están implicados; Desaparecida desde 2007
EFE / Lisboa
20 October 2010
La Opinión de Murcia
Spanish


A Portuguese court today overturned the ban on sales of the book on the Madeleine case by former commissioner who investigated, Gonçalo Amaral, which relates to the British girl's parents with their hypothetical death.
The lawyer for the parents of Madeleine McCann, Elizabeth Duarte, told Reuters the decision, contrary to the claim filed by its customers, today issued the Industrial Relations Court of Lisbon after an appeal by Amaral.
The girl's mother, Kate McCann considers "incredible" this court decision, said the lawyer, who is studying to see the possible measures to adopt.
Madeleine disappeared on May 3, 2007 in southern Portugal and parents organized a global media campaign to find her, but suggests in his book Amaral, appeared a year later, the girl could have died accidentally and the body was hidden.
The work, "Maddie, the truth lies," was suspended as a precautionary measure on September 9, 2009 and the prohibition of sale in Portugal, also extended to translations in other countries, was confirmed on 18 February when Lisbon Civil Court found in favor of the complaint for defamation and damage which had brought the parents.
The pair of British doctors, paving and other legal action against Amaral claim for compensation for the impact of his book, disagrees with this new ruling, his lawyer said.
The former inspector, who took early retirement following this case failed to prove the involvement of parents in the alleged disappearance of the girl by the Portuguese Attorney General, which closed the investigation on July 21, 2008 and acquitted the McCanns of the suspicions against them formal.
The couple always defended his innocence and accused Amaral not only have made them a great moral damage, but have hampered with his accusations, the search for the girl.
Last May, with the third anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine, the McCanns reappeared in several European television channels and print media to insist that they believe their daughter alive and seeking help to find it.
The girl disappeared while she slept with two smaller twins in a holiday apartment in Playa de la Luz in the Algarve while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant with a group of friends.
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I was returned to freedom of expression stolen by the McCanns

10/20/2010 Posted by Winnower

Polícia e Tribunais
Livro sobre Maddie
20 October 2010
Jornal de Notícias
Portuguese

Gonçalo Amaral may already be sold
Gonçalo Amaral: "Give me freedom of expression stolen by the McCanns"
Madeleine
"I was returned to freedom of expression stolen by the McCanns." The reaction is Goncalo Amaral after learning that the book "True Lies" will return to newsstands and that he can continue to defend the theory that Madeleine is dead.
The decision of the Court of Appeal of Lisbon, known yesterday, ending more than a year in which the former coordinator of the Judicial Police was forced to silence.
Three judges judges considered that the good name of the couple was not questioned nor private life was violated, claimed as their own. On the one hand, the elements described in the work listed in the criminal proceedings. "We do not find the book a reference to any facts not included in the final order," say the judges. On the other, "we find that they are themselves (the parents of Madeleine (which multiply in interviews and speeches in the media, providing them with information that otherwise would hardly be publicized."
Parents of missing girl to May 3, 2007, in Praia da Luz, Lagos, filed an injunction in September last year. By decision of the Civil Court of Lisbon, the book was withdrawn and not for sale in Portugal and abroad, such as reproduction of the documentary issued by TVI. Amaral was also unable to express themselves publicly on the theory of death. Former police use ratio and gave him reason, criticizing the couple and the decision of the Civil Court, which "violated the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and the European Convention of Human Rights." MARISA RODRIGUES
FILE JN
Relationship indicates that the book does not question the good name of McCann or violate their privacy

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Madeleine McCann book ban overturned by Portuguese court

10/20/2010 Posted by Winnower

Madeleine McCann book ban overturned by Portuguese court
Giles Tremlett
20 October 2010 
Guardian Unlimited 

Appeal court lifts block on sales of book by former detective alleging Madeleine is dead and abduction story was fabricated 

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."

   
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Madeleine McCann book ban overturned

10/20/2010 Posted by Winnower

Madeleine McCann book ban overturned
Book written by detective who investigated disappearance claims parents hid their daughter’s body
20 October 2010
The FirstPost
Sophie Taylor

A Portuguese court has overturned a ban on a book in which it is claimed that Madeleine McCann's body was hidden by her parents after she died on holiday.

Three-year-old Madeleine disappeared from her holiday apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz while her parents were dining with friends in May 2007. It was assumed the child was abducted and her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, believe she is still alive.

The book in question, /Maddie: a Verdade da Mentira/ (/Maddie: the Truth of the Lie/), was written by Goncalo Amaral, the police inspector who led the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance from May until October 2007.

The book was published in July 2008, but the McCanns, who deny Amaral's assertions, took legal action and a year later a court banned sales of the book and forbade Amaral from repeating his claims about the McCanns. In February this year, the ban was upheld.

Now a judge has ruled that the ban on the book was a breach of
"a constitutional and universal right: that of opinion and freedom of expression".

According to the court,
"The contents of the book do not breach the basic rights of the plaintiffs."

In his book, Amaral claims that Madeleine died in a tragic accident and her parents then hid the body. He also questioned why Gerry and Kate McCann had to employ a spokesman and said they were too close to British police.

After his court victory, Amaral told reporters:
"The book is an exercise in freedom of speech. Portuguese democracy has won, as banning the book was unconstitutional."

A defamation case brought by the McCanns against Amaral continues.
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Appeal decision to rescind ban on book

10/19/2010 Posted by Winnower

Madeleine: Gonçalo Amaral considera "reforço da democracia" decisão da Relação em anular proibição de livro 
19 October 2010 
Agência Lusa - Serviço Internacional 
Portuguese
Madeleine: Goncalo Amaral believes "democracy enhancement" of Appeal decision to rescind ban on book 19 October 2010
Lusa - International
Portuguese

The former Inspector of Judicial Police (PJ) Goncalo Amaral today said that the decision of the Court of Appeal to annul the prohibition of sale of the book "Maddie - The Truth Lies" means " strengthening of Portuguese democracy. " Gonçalo Amaral is pleased that "ultimately there is democracy," and confessed to the agency Lusa that he hoped the judges of Appeal reversed the decision of Lisbon Civil Court to prohibit the sale of the book after an injunction filed by the parents of Madeleine McCann. "The book is an exercise of citizenship and freedom of expression.

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With this decision, it was the Portuguese who won democracy, as the ban on the sale of the book was unconstitutional," said Goncalo Amaral Lusa. The former PJ inspector still classified as "very important" decision of the ratio for the two cases brought by the parents of British girl who disappeared in 2007 in the Algarve, still no date set for commencement of trial. In the civil case, Kate and Gerry McCann claim 1.2 million for defamation, while in another case Gonçalo Amaral is accused of breach of secrecy. The decision to cancel the prohibition of sale of the book "Maddie - The Truth Lies" and the video with the same title, based on a documentary broadcast on TVI, was today reported by the Lusa agency judicial source. With the decision, the book and video can be marketed again and Gonçalo Amaral, who defends the book's thesis involvement of Kate and Gerry McCann in their daughter's disappearance in May 2007 in the Algarve holiday apartment, you can return to speak publicly in the case. The decision to ban the sale of the book and the video had been decreed on January 14 by Judge Rodrigues Cunha, of 7.

The Lisbon Civil Court, ruled that the injunction filed by the McCanns. The ban was provisionally enacted September 9, 2009, and the main action, the McCann family claimed the protection of the rights, freedoms and guarantees. Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, in an apartment in a holiday village of Praia da Luz, where he was vacationing with her parents and two brothers. As coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ in Portimão, Gonçalo Amaral joined the team of researchers tried to find out what happened to the English girl. Kate and Gerry McCann, who always maintained the position that Madeleine was abducted, were made defendants in September 2007, but were eventually acquitted in July 2008 for lack of evidence to support the hypothesis advanced by the investigation of accidental death of the girl. The prosecutor dropped the case, which could be reopened if new data deemed to be consistent about the child's disappearance.


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Book about mysterious disappearance of Maddie McCann may appear

10/19/2010 Posted by Winnower

Book about mysterious disappearance of Maddie McCann may appear 
19 October 2010 
Agence France Presse
German

Nearly three and a half years after the mysterious disappearance of Maddie McCann small can the controversial book by the former Portuguese chief investigator Gonçalo Amaral appear after all.

A Portuguese Court of Appeal have the ban lifted by the family procured the publication, said the lawyer for Kate and Gerry McCann, Isabel Duarte, the AFP news agency on Tuesday.

"We must return to the publisher about 8,000 copies of the book, which is probably now on sale," she added.

The book "The Truth about the lie" was withdrawn in September 2009 after a complaint by the parents from the market.

A court in Lisbon in February confirmed a preliminary injunction procured by the parents on the grounds that the book violated the rights of the McCanns. Amaral and his publisher appealed against this decision.

Madeleine McCann was in May 2007 at the age of three and a half years, disappeared from a resort in the Algarve. Her parents still insist that the girl was kidnapped and possibly even in life.

Amaral, who led the investigation in 2007 initially suspected, however, that the girl is dead and the parents have the body disappear. Throughout his work, he classified Kate and Gerry McCann as suspects. Shortly after he was released from the investigation, the official investigations have now been adjusted results.


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Caso Maddie: Livro de Gonçalo Amaral já pode ser vendido

10/19/2010 Posted by Winnower

Caso Maddie: Livro de Gonçalo Amaral já pode ser vendido 
19 October 2010 
Record 
Portuguese 

The Court of Appeal overturned the ban on the sale of the book of Gonçalo Amaral, "Maddie - The Truth Lies," which had been decided by the Lisbon Civil Court following an injunction filed by the parents of Madeleine McCann.

Judicial source said on Tuesday the agency Lusa that the appeal filed by former Inspector of Judicial Police Gonçalo Amaral, "was well founded" by the book and video with the same title, based on a documentary broadcast on TVI can be re-marketed.

Goncalo Amaral, who defends the book's thesis involvement of Kate and Gerry McCann in the disappearance of her daughter in May 2007 in the Algarve holiday apartment, it can still be interviewed, either in Portugal or abroad.

The trial of the injunction, ordered provisionally September 9, 2009, held in four sessions in mid-January. In the main action, the McCann family claimed the protection of the rights, freedoms and guarantees.

In addition to this process, Kate and Gerry McCann Gonçalo Amaral filed against a defamation action, it is claimed a compensation of 1.2 million, and another for breach of secrecy.
  
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Affaire Madeleine McCann: l'interdiction d'un livre polémique levée en appel

10/19/2010 Posted by Winnower

Affaire Madeleine McCann: l'interdiction d'un livre polémique levée en appel 
19 October 2010 
Agence France Presse 
French 


The Portuguese courts overturned on appeal the ban controversial book of the former inspector in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann, announced Tuesday the lawyer for parents of the girl.  

"We will go to the editor about 8,000 copies of the book, which will probably be put on sale," said Isabel Duarte told AFP.  

The book of the former Chief Inspector Gonçalo Amaral, "The Truth of the Lie", was withdrawn from sale in September 2009 following a complaint by the parents of Madeleine McCann disappeared in May 2007 in southern Portugal.  

In his book, which has also been a television adaptation, the former police officer says the little girl died and her parents could have hidden his body.  

A thesis that Gonçalo Amaral had put forward to justify the indictment in September 2007 Kate and Gerry McCann.  

A month later, the officer had been relieved of the investigation, and since then the couple McCann were cleared by the Portuguese court closed the case.  

The disappearance of the girl 3 and a half years while she was sleeping in a room of a resort in southern Portugal, sparked an unprecedented media campaign. Her parents, who always favored the theory of a kidnapping, had launched a public subscription in particular to ensure the services of private investigators and trying to find their daughter.
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Madeleine: Tribunal da Relação anula proibição de venda de livro de Gonçalo Amaral

10/19/2010 Posted by Winnower

Madeleine: Tribunal da Relação anula proibição de venda de livro de Gonçalo Amaral 
19 October 2010 
Agência Lusa - Serviço Internacional 
Portuguese 

Madeleine: Court of Appeals nullifies ban on the sale of a book of Goncalo Amaral Lisbon, Oct 19 (Lusa)

-- A Court of Appeal overturned the ban on the sale of the book of Goncalo Amaral "Maddie -- The Truth of the Lie", which had been decided by the Civil Court of Lisbon in the wake of an injunction brought by the parents of Madeleine McCann.

Judicial Source said today the Lusa agency that the appeal presented by ex-inspector of Police Goncalo Amaral "was upheld", by which the book and the video with the same title, based on a documentary aired in TVI, may again be marketed.

Goncalo Amaral, who argues in the book thesis of involvement of Kate and Gerry McCann in the disappearance of her daughter in May 2007, in a tourist apartment in Algarve, you can still give interviews, either in Portugal or abroad.

THE same source stated that the use of ex-inspector in the PJ, presented by the lawyer Antonio Cabrita, was "the only" to be considered by the Court of Appeal in Lisbon, which did not consider the appeals of War & Peace, publisher of the book, the TVI and Valentim de Carvalho, who marketed the video. The trial of an injunction, ordered provisionally September 09, 2009, was held in four sessions, in the middle of January.

The main action, the McCann family claimed the protection of the rights, freedoms and guarantees. In addition to this procedure, Kate and Gerry McCann brought an action against Goncalo Amaral an action for libel, requested a compensation of 1.2 million euros, and another by violation of the secrecy of justice. Madeleine McCann dsapareceu in May 03, 2007 in an apartment in a tourist resort of Praia da Luz, Lagos, where he was on vacation with his parents and two brothers.

As the coordinator of the Department of Criminal Investigation in PJ of Portimao, Goncalo Amaral joined the team of researchers who have tried to find out what happened to the girl english. Kate and Gerry McCann, who has always maintained the position that Madeleine was abducted, have been made defendants in September 2007, but ended up being acquitted in July 2008 due to lack of evidence to sustain the hypothesis advanced by the investigation of accidental death of the girl. The Public Prosecutor filed so the procedure, which may be reopened if there are further data considered consistent on the disappearance of the child.

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