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The
Policia Judiciaria (PJ) considers decisive for the advance of the investigation
into the Madeleine case, the results of tests that are yet to be finished, from
important residues that were detected in the apartment where the disappearance
occurred, [including] hair that presumably belongs to the English child, which
was found behind a sofa at the McCann family's holiday place. Meanwhile, the
arguido couple, besides at least concealment of a cadaver, may be suspected of
simulating a crime, for possibly staging a kidnapping.
According to information that was collected by JN, the investigation places
more expectations on the tests from hair residues, that are being performed at
the Birmingham lab, in England, given the fact that from that sample, it is not
only possible to extract a DNA profile, but also to perform toxicology
analyses. The latter, in case the hair belongs to Maddie, may demonstrate if
the child was subject to any medication overdose or not, eventually after
ingesting sedatives in order to sleep.
The location where the hair was found - behind a sofa in the apartment -,
during new search diligences that were performed in July, is close to the spot
where the two English "springer spaniel" dogs detected blood traces
and cadaver odour. These clues, together with others that were detected inside
the Renault Scenic van that was rented by the McCann family several days after
the girl disappeared, and with the death scent that was found on the mother's
clothes and on the child's soft toy, led to Kate and Gerry being seen as
suspects and motivated the questionings during which they were constituted
arguidos.
Yet, until this moment, the PJ only possesses the results from tests that were
performed on biological fluids found in the boot of the rental car, which
demonstrated a coincidence of approximately 80 percent with Maddie's DNA
profile. This result raises the possibility that the genetic profile that was
detected belongs to someone of the family. It is yet unknown whether this
result is a consequence of the fact that the rest of the DNA markers - the 20%
- coincide with someone else's profile, or if they were not detected because
the sample may have been degraded.
Another downside on the investigation is the circumstance that the results that
arrived until now, from samples of residues that were found in the apartment,
were inconclusive. This is why PJ awaits the results from testing on the hair.
Sources close to the investigation that were contacted by JN say that, besides
concealment of a cadaver, Kate and Gerry McCann are indicted of the simulation
of a crime, which concerns a possible staging of an abduction occurred on May
3. This because, until now, the leads that point to the death of the child
inside the Ocean Club apartment, in Praia da Luz, are stronger than possible
suspicions that might still exist, that someone took the child away while still
alive.
This illicit action, which is addressed by article 366 of the Penal Code,
stipulates that "anyone who denounces a crime or raises the suspicion of
it to the competent authority, without blaming it on a specific person, and
knowing it did not occur, is punished with imprisonment up to 1 year or with a
fine up to 120 days".
What the PJ knows as certain is that the girl's parents - who, when they were
interrogated on September 6 and 7, refused to answer questions about evidence -
are not telling everything they know. This is why the investigation will
advance, through request letters that are sent to England, in the direction of
inquiring friends and relatives of the McCanns. |
