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Maddie's family want excavations
Rogerio Alves, the McCanns lawyer, says the police must
take a position on the lead provided by the businessman
that guarantees that the cadaver is in Murat's garden
The McCann family lawyer defends that the authorities
should investigate the lead provided by a South African
businessman that guarantees that Maddie, who disappeared
in 2007, is buried in the garden of Briton Robert Murat,
in the Algarve.
“The family has no technical means to judge if this is
true, it does not investigate. What the family expects
is for the police to take a position on this matter, to
verify the site”, said Rogerio Alves to CM, following
the private investigation by Stephen Birch, who has
already informed the Judiciary Police of the steps taken
in Murat's garden with a georadar machine, through which
he claims to have detected changes in the subsoil.
Rogerio Alves clarifies that the family does not know
the South African businessman who made claims that a
cadaver is buried in that place, 60 centimetres bellow
ground, and adds: “If a person makes a statement as
peremptory as that, then the family expects for the
police to verify and confirm or deny that claim. If they
don't do it, they should explain why.”
“To dissipate doubts there is no alternative”
Antonio Teixeira,
former chief inspector of the
Judiciary Police Homicide Unit, defends that the
Attorney General's Office should reopen the
investigation to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
In his view, excavations in Robert Murat's garden should
be made, following the private investigation of the
South African businessman Stephen Birch. “To dissipate
all doubts, there is no better alternative than to carry
out the excavation”, said the former chief inspector of
the Judiciary Police.
Details
May 3, 2007
Madeleine, 3 years-old, disappeared on the night of the
3rd of May of 2007 from the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz,
Lagos.
Parents Arguidos
After Robert Murat, Madeleine's parents were constituted
as arguidos, in September 2007, suspected of concealment
of a cadaver.
Archived Process
The investigation was archived in July 2008, but the
process might be reopened by initiative of the Attorney
General's Office.
in Correio da Manhã, July 7, 2012, paper edition, page
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