Thursday 29 April 2010

Gerry and Kate McCann interviewed for Spanish TV "Las Mañanas de Cuatro."

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Thanks to Mercedes Sigue for the following information.

On Monday, May 3rd, Spanish TV Las Mañanas de Cuatro, will air an interview with the McCanns. There will be several guests in the studio commenting on the case. The following is the press release from Mercedes.

"There she was curled up against me. Then she took my engagement ring... She used to do this many times and put it... She put it as we read the story.... She is wonderful, what I can say. "

So Kate McCann recalls the last moments spent with her daughter. Next Monday marks the third anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine. Three years in which her parents have not stopped looking for her.

Las Mañanas de Cuatro celebrates its 750 programs on the air with an exclusive worldwide interest. Concha Garcia Campoy has gone to Rothley (England) to interview the McCanns and know how is their day to day without Maddie.

Kate and Gerry have responded, without censorship, to all our questions. They talk about the doubts that still surround the case and their relationship with Gonçalo Amaral, the Portuguese police who was in charge of the research who has always considered them suspects.

"In my mind it is very clear that a man took Madeleine and we have to find him to know where my daughter is. That the police don’t search for that man but suspect me and Gerry ... That hurts me. "

Kate and Gerry McCann tell us each point of their version of what happened that night. They categorically denied they had medicated children ("It's a shame that this was published. It has no basis. It’s a lie") although they admit they could have made a mistake leaving them alone to go to dinner with a group of friends.

"The guilt will never leave us, we made a mistake and we repeated it several nights in a row ... We never thought our children were in danger."

They say that the have never hidden to Sean and Amelie, Maddie’s brother and sister; what happened.

"A psychologist told us to answer honestly all their questions ... We explained them about the kidnapping, saying that if we want something we should not take it if it belongs to others. And they understood it. As a robbery. "

Three years after the disappearance of Madeleine, the McCanns do not give up. They say they will continue to fight "the time it takes." Currently, they are intending that the British police reopen the investigation.

We celebrate 750 mornings together ... with new and interesting stories.

Spanish

Allí estaba acurrucada contra mí. Entonces, me quitó el anillo de compromiso… Acostumbraba a hacerlo muchas veces y se lo ponía... Se lo puso mientras leíamos el cuento….Es maravillosa, qué puedo decir”.

Así recuerda Kate McCann los últimos momentos que pasó con su hija. El próximo lunes se cumplen tres años de la desaparición de la pequeña Madeleine. Tres años en los que sus padres no han dejado de buscarla.

Las Mañanas de Cuatro celebra sus 750 programas en antena con una exclusiva de interés mundial. Concha García Campoy se ha desplazado hasta Rothley (Inglaterra) para entrevistar a los McCann y conocer cómo es su día a día sin Maddie.

Kate y Gerry han respondido, sin censura, a todas nuestras preguntas. Nos hablan de las dudas que aún hoy rodean el caso y de su relación con Gonzalo Amaral, el policía portugués que estuvo a cargo de la investigación y que siempre les ha considerado sospechosos.

En mi mente está muy claro que un hombre se llevó a Madeleine y tenemos que encontrarlo para saber dónde está mi hija. Que la policía no busque a ese hombre sino que sospeche de mí y de Gerry… Eso me duele”.

Kate y Gerry McCann relatan punto a punto su versión de lo que ocurrió aquella noche. Niegan tajantemente que hubieran medicado a los niños (“Es una vergüenza que eso se publicara. No tiene ninguna base. Es mentira”) aunque admiten que pudieron equivocarse al dejarlos solos para ir a cenar con un grupo de amigos.

La culpa nunca nos abandonará, hemos cometido un error y lo repetimos varias noches seguidas…Nunca pensamos que nuestros hijos estuvieran en peligro”.

Aseguran que a Sean y Amelia, los hermanos de Maddie, nunca les han ocultado lo que pasó.

Un psicólogo nos dijo que respondiéramos con honestidad a todas sus preguntas… Les explicamos lo del secuestro diciéndoles que si queremos algo no hay que cogerlo si es de otros. Y lo entendieron. Como si fuera un robo”.

Tres años después de la desaparición de Madeleine, los McCann no se rinden. Dicen que seguirán luchando “el tiempo que haga falta”. En estos momentos, intentan que la policía británica reabra la investigación.

Celebramos 750 mañanas juntos… con nuevos e interesantes reportajes.

Portuguese

OS MCCANN,NAS MANHÃS DA QUATRO.

"Tinha-se aninhado,encostado a mim. Então, tirou-me o anel de noivado ... Costumava fazer isso muitas vezes e punha-o ... Punha-o enquanto liamos uma história .... É maravilhosa, é o que posso dizer. "

É assim que Kate McCann recorda os últimos momentos que passou com a sua filha. Na próxima segunda-feira será o terceiro aniversário do desaparecimento de Madeleine. Três anos em que seus pais não deixaram de a procurar.

As Manhãs da Quatro comemora os seus 750 programas no ar com um exclusivo de interesse mundial. Concha García Campoy foi a Rothley (Inglaterra) para entrevistar os McCann e saber como é o seu seu dia-a-dia sem Maddie.

Kate e Gerry responderam, sem censura, a todas as nossas perguntas. Falam-nos das dúvidas que ainda hoje têm sobre o caso e da sua relação com Gonçalo Amaral, o Polícia Português, que foi o Coordenador da investigação e que sempre os considerou como suspeitos.

"Na minha mente está muito claro que foi um homem que levou Madeleine e temos que encontrá-lo para sabermos onde está a minha filha. Que a polícia não procure esse homem, mas suspeite de mim e de Gerry ... Isso magoa. "

Kate e Gerry McCann contam a sua versão ,pormenor a pormenor do que aconteceu naquela noite. Negam categoricamente que tivessem dado medicamentos aos filhos, ("Foi uma vergonha isso ter sido publicado. Não tem qualquer fundamento. É mentira "), embora admitam que cometeram o erro ao deixá-los sozinhos para irem jantar com um grupo de amigos.

"A culpa nunca nos abandonará, cometemos um erro e repetimo-lo várias noites seguidas… Nunca pensamos que os nossos filhos estivessem em perigo."

Garantem que a Sean e a Amelie, irmãos de Madeleine, nunca lhes esconderam o que se passou.

"Um psicólogo disse-nos para respondermos com honestidade a todas suas perguntas ... explicamos-lhes o rapto, dizendo que, se queremos alguma coisa que não nos pertence, que é de outros, nunca se deve tirar .E eles perceberam. Como se fosse um roubo."

Três anos depois do desaparecimento de Madeleine, os McCann não desistem. Eles dizem que vão continuar a lutar " leve o tempo que levar" .Actualmente, tentam que a polícia britânica reabra a investigação.

Celebramos 750 manhãs juntos…. com novas e interessantes reportagens.

French

Les McCann, dans « Las Mañanas de la Cuatro »

"Elle était recroquevillée contre moi. Alors, elle m’a pris la bague de fiançailles ... Elle avait l’habitude de le faire souvent et la mettait ... Elle l'a mise tandis que nous lisions le conte .... Elle est merveilleuse, qu’est ce que je peux dire ».

Kate McCann se souvient ainsi, des derniers moments passés avec sa fille. Lundi prochain, marque le troisième anniversaire de la disparition de Madeleine. Trois années pendant lesquelles ses parents n'ont pas cessé de la chercher.

« Las Mañanas de la Cuatro » fêtent ses 750 programmes à l’antenne avec une exclusive d’intérêt mondial. Concha García Campoy s’est déplacée à Rothley (Angleterre) pour interviewer les McCann et connaitre comment est son quotidien sans Maddie.

Kate et Gerry ont répondu, sans censure, à toutes nos questions. Ils nous parlent des doutes qui entourent encore le cas et de sa relation avec Gonzalo Amaral, le policier portugais, qui était chargé de l’enquête et qui les a toujours considérés comme suspects.

"Dans ma tête il est clair qu’un homme a pris Madeleine, et que nous devons le trouver pour savoir ou est ma fille. Que la police ne cherche pas cet homme, mais quelle nous suspecte a moi, et a Gerry ... ça me fait mal ».

Kate et Gerry McCann racontent point par point sa version de ce qui s'est passé cette nuit-là. Ils nient catégoriquement avoir administre des médicamentes aux enfants («C'est une honte ce qui a été publié. Sans aucun fondement. C’est un mensonge»), bien qu'ils admettent qu'ils ont pu avoir tort en les laissant seuls pour aller dîner avec un groupe d'amis.

"La culpabilité ne nous abandonnera jamais, nous avons fait une erreur et nous l’avons répété plusieurs nuits de suite ... Nous n'avons jamais pensé que nos enfants étaient en danger."

Ils affirment qu’ils n’ont jamais caché à Sean et Amelie, le frère et sœur de Maddie, ce qui s'est passé.

"Un psychologue nous a dit de répondre honnêtement à toutes leurs questions ... on leur a expliqué au sujet de l'enlèvement, en leur disant que si nous voulons quelque chose nous ne devons pas la prendre si elle appartient a quelqu’un d’autre. Et ils ont compris. Comme si c’était un vol ».

Trois ans après la disparition de Madeleine, les McCann n’abandonnent pas. Ils disent qu'ils vont continuer à se battre "le temps qu'il faudra." Actuellement, ils essaient que la police britannique rouvre l'enquête.

Nous fêtons 750 matinées ensemble ... avec des reportages nouveaux et intéressants.






Sunday 4 April 2010

Roll out the McCanns! Somebody mentioned the word "abduction."!!!

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Above: Kate and Gerry McCann in Strasbourg, June 2008


Well, the UK finally gets around to introducing an alert system for missing children.


Sky News April 4th



"Police will unveil a new nationwide alert system for enlisting the public to help them rescue abducted children next month."


An alert system has been active in some member states of the EU for some time now. In fact, Portugal was the second country after Hungary, to introduce an alert system in 2002, in accordance with an EU directive. (SOS Madeleine McCann blog )

In June 2008, the McCanns went to Strasbourg to gather support for a Europe-wide system, based on the American Amber Alert. They presented a written declaration to the Commission, but this was not their own work, rather it had been drawn up by Edward McMillan-Scott, then Vice-President of the European Parliament, but presented by the media-savvy, media magnets, the McCanns.

The McCanns had simply tried to hijack an initiative that had already been working its way through the European Parliament for some time, turn it into something else and claim it as their own.


"McCann wanted to seize “a policy that is already being enforced”


"The McCann couple launched a public relations campaign, trying to 'seize' a policy that is already being enforced..." accused the member of the European Parliament, Carlos Coelho, member of the Christian-Democrat group in the European Parliament and Party colleague of President Barroso. And this MEP knows what he is talking about, as he was among the 54 deputies who had adopted, in a committee session, the European strategy concerning children’s rights, a document which was approved on January 2008.

The “written declaration” to which McMilan-Scott agreed to associate Kate and Gerry McCann thus does not contain anything new, when compared with the legislative project of the European institutions." (Duarte Levy and Paulo Reis)

The McCanns in Strasbourg in 2008 were rather like the man who knocked my door the other day, trying to interest me in double glazing, to whom I pointed out my rather new windows! But oh dear! How were those crusading, never mind that we left our children alone "responsible parents," received? Those ungrateful deputies and journalists just kept asking questions about the night Madeleine disappeared and some even asked about the children having been left alone, which irritated our saintly duo immensely!

Gerry retorted that they had neither neglected nor abandoned Madeleine and that going over that old ground was boring! (Duarte Levy and Paulo Reis)

Oh yes, Gerry! Been there, done that, lost a child, but hey, let's not go over that old boring stuff!


In December 2006, an extraordinary meeting of the member states approved an initiative of the European Commission to reserve certain numbers (Starting with 116 ) for a Europe-wide alert system for missing children. This was the system which had been in operation in France since 2006 and had proved to be effective in several cases. (August 2007: abducted 5 year-old French child recovered within hours.)

Back to SkyNews:

"The network, comparable to the amber alert system in the United States, will be compatible with other European countries for the first time."


Well, hallelujah! By January 2009, 10 out of the 17 member states of the EU had adopted the European Alert system, the UK as we know, not having been amongst them, in spite of the fact of having the greatest number of missing children. (SOS Maddie blog)


But sky News tells us that the McCanns have been campaigning for such a system since their daughter disappeared! Well, no they haven't! They took up being poster children for McMillan-Scott's campaign in June 2008, when other member states had been operating an alternative system since 2006!

Since 2006, the French system, known as "Alerte Enlèvement," which is the system now introduced across most of the EU territory and finally in the UK, has recovered many missing children through rapid response to reported cases of abduction. The success of the system, according to Rachida Dati, former French Justice Minister, is due to there being very strict criteria for launching an alert. Four criteria must be met.

"Quatre critères doivent toutefois être réunis pour que le plan soit déclenché : il doit s'agir d'un enlèvement avéré, et non d'une simple disparition, même inquiétante ; la vie ou l'intégrité physique de la victime doit être en danger ; le procureur de la République est en possession éléments d'informations dont la diffusion permettrait de localiser l'enfant ou le suspect ; et la victime doit être mineure." (Duarte Levy)


1) It must be a confirmed abduction and not just a disappearance, however worrying.

2) The victim's life or physical safety must be at risk.

3) The Public Prosecutor must be in possession of sufficient information which, if broadcast, would help to locate the child or the suspect.


4) The victim must be a minor.


So, why is the press wheeling out the McCanns today in relation to this alert system, when they had nothing to do with its inception or its introduction? This is the system that they unsuccessfully tried to replace with McMillan-Scott's version of the American Amber Alert.

And would an alert have helped to find Madeleine in May 2007, given the above criteria?

1) Not met. There was no evidence of an abduction.

2) Maybe. If Maddie was still alive after 10pm on May 3rd, it is highly likely that she would be in physical danger.

3) Not met. The information available would not have helped locate Maddie or the alleged abductor. Small child, last seen in her bed, not there now, man seen carrying a bundle that could have been a child. Description: an egg with hair!

4) Met. One out of four ain't bad? No, it ain't good!

So, there they are today, the "responsible parents," who left three very young children alone in an unlocked apartment in a foreign country, being presented as the instigators of a system they tried to replace with one that wasn't even their own, one they just tried to hitch their wagon to! I guess they will draw more public sympathy than a photo of Rachida Dati, the French Justice Minister who developed the above four criteria which their own child's case didn't meet! Hey ho!