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THE investigation into
Madeleine McCann's disappearance has been hijacked by
her parents' "gigantic propaganda machine", Portuguese detectives
have claimed.
Senior police officers have condemned the recruitment of
Metodo 3, the Spanish private detective agency hired by the couple to find
their daughter.
And they have claimed that the 39-year-old doctors from
Rothley, Leicestershire are using a string of "new
witnesses"
reported recently as "diversion tactics" aimed at distracting the
police away from the couple.
A source close to the official police investigation told the
Daily Express: "Who do the McCanns think they are? "The discovery of
new witnesses in the last few weeks lead the authorities to believe they are at
war with a gigantic propaganda machine.
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"The McCanns have some very powerful people on their
side -
millionaires,
celebrities, even
politicians."
This week salesman
Paul Gordon, 34, from Hampshire told how
he confronted an intruder trying to break into the same
holiday apartment from
where Madeleine disappeared just days before the British youngster vanished.
Last week Irishman
Martin Smith, from Drogheda, County Louth,
told how he saw a man carrying a child towards the beach shortly before 10pm on
the night of May 3, about the time that Madeleine disappeared.
In December sisters Annie Wiltshire, 58, and Jayne Jensen, 54, both from Kent,
told police they saw suspect
Robert Murat outside the
Ocean Club complex half
an hour after Madeleine was reported missing from her family's holiday flat on
the night of May 3.
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And in November Metodo 3 revealed how a lorry driver told
them he saw a woman handing a young child over to a man near the town of Silves, 25 miles from
Praia da Luz, two days after Madeleine disappeared.
Criticism of the McCanns has peaked in recent days following
revelations that they are in talks with film-makers to make a film about their
daughter's disappearance, already dubbed 'Madeleine the Movie'. |
