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The 'Tapas 9' |
The reconstitution of Madeleine McCann's
disappearance, on May 3, 2007 - which
was one of the steps that were never
done due to unavailability of the
English child's parents and friends who
accompanied them at the time of the
disappearance - will now be able to be
carried out. The family of the girl are
already available to cooperate with the
Portuguese police, after the authorities
demonstrated their intention to follow
once again the abduction theory.
Set aside, for the time being, is the
hypothesis that it was a negligent
homicide - as was defended by the PJ in
a first stage of the investigation. The
process, as CMTV first reported before
yesterday, has also been reopened by the
PGR [Attorney General's Office] at the
request of the Judiciary Police.
These new steps are part of a far
broader investigation, which the PJ has
begun two years ago. At that time, the
process - although archived - had been
handed over to a team of Porto, who
reanalyzed the case and understood there
were gaps in the investigation.
A little over a month, even before the
case had been reopened, the
investigators were at the Ocean Club in
Praia da Luz. They went back to check
the distance at which the group was
dining at the moment of the girl's
disappearance and, insofar as possible,
attempted to make a reconstruction of
the events.
The participation of Maddie's parents
and their friends in this endeavour is
nevertheless crucial to understand
exactly what happened. Kate would have
been the one who alerted, when she went
to the bedroom to check if the children
were sleeping. At that time, the group
were dining at the restaurant of the
tourist resort and they would have
already drunk several bottles of wine.
All of them guaranteed that they weren't
aware of any strange individuals in the
surrounding area.
Correio da Manhã, October 25, 2013
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