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Rogerio Alves, the McCann couple’s lawyer, has told TSF that there is no
new data in the documents that were revealed by Wikileaks that would
justify the reopening of the process.
The McCann couple’s lawyer in Portugal,
Rogerio Alves, has said in a statement
to TSF that he opposes the reopening of the inquiry into the
disappearance of Madeleine in Lagos, in the Algarve, in 2007.
At stake is a telegram from the North American embassy that was revealed
by Wikileaks, which indicates that it was the English police that
presented the evidence that led to the McCann couple to be made
arguidos.
The telegram, which is cited by British newspaper The Guardian,
describes a conversation between the ambassadors of the United Kingdom
and the USA in Portugal, shortly after
Kate and
Gerry McCann were made arguidos.
Nonetheless, Rogerio Alves considered that these suspicions from the
English authorities add nothing new to the process.
“That information is completely useless. It only contains a reference to
a piece of evidence that the Public Ministry and the Polícia Judiciária
(PJ) considered to be totally useless, which consisted of a couple of
dogs
that
having barked, but being naturally unable to depose in a court room,
would constitute some sort of indication against the child’s parents”,
he said.
“To open the process, yes, when that contributes to finding out where
the child is and what happened to her, [but] to open the process, no,
when it is to review what was already seen by the PJ and by the Public
Ministry, that correctly considered those indications to be absurd and
inconsistent”, Rogerio Alves added, justifying that “nobody in a
democratic state can be taken to court based on dogs’ barking. That is
absurd.”
The former PJ inspector,
Goncalo Amaral,
has a different
opinion. In a statement, he considered that there had been political
interference in the process, and therefore he asked the Public Ministry
to reopen it. |
