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.

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

Ultimately there is democracy

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

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

Portugal cancels ban on Madeleine's book

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.

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

I was returned to freedom of expression stolen by the McCanns

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

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

Madeleine McCann book ban overturned by Portuguese court

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."

   

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

Madeleine McCann book ban overturned

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.

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

Spot the Spin Exercise

Kate pain on book
20 October 2010
The Sun

The parents of Maddie McCann were furious yesterday after a Portuguese judge overturned a ban on a book claiming their daughter is dead. Kate and Gerry McCann last year blocked disgraced Maddie hunt cop Goncalo Amaral publishing The Truth of the Lie. But a Lisbon appeal court ruled the book can now be sold in Portugal. The McCanns' lawyer Isabel Duarte said Kate, 41, told her: "That's incredible. I can't believe it is possible." Amaral claimed the couple, of Rothley, Leics, faked the abduction of Maddie, three, in 2007.

Note: This is the only article printed by the Sun that refers to the lifting of the ban on Goncalo Amaral's "Maddie: The Truth of the Lie".

A grand total of 96 words, after the Sun had earlier published no less than 13,000 words related to the McCann's efforts to silence Amaral.

(Click "Read More" for the complete list)

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Antonella Lazzeri, Censorship, DISGRACED, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Isabel Duarte, The Truth of the Lie

Spot the Spin Exercise

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

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

Appeal decision to rescind ban on book

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.

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 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.

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

Book about mysterious disappearance of Maddie McCann may appear

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.

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