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João
Ferreira, CMTV News Anchor - Tânia
Laranjo, CMTV journalist, who has
followed this case since the beginning
and Gonçalo Amaral, who headed the
initial investigation are our guests in
the first half of tonight's CMTV's
special broadcast. Good evening to both,
thank you for being here.
Tânia
Laranjo, CMTV/CM journalist - Good
evening, thank you.
João
Ferreira, CMTV News Anchor - Gonçalo
Amaral, I’ll start with you. These
investigations by the British police are
just a show-off? [idiomatic
expression,“for the English to see”]
Gonçalo
Amaral, former coordinator of the PJ of
Portimão - No, these investigations
of the British police have much to do
with what is taking place. Notice that
Monday [the following day, 16th of July]
the trial will proceed where the McCanns
ask for damages and none of this happens
coincidentally. So, now I am the target
of a lawsuit in which it is essential -
as
Moita Flores explained a few days
ago in the newspaper Correio da Manhã -
not to attribute blame but to find
excuses, and this is what the British
police are doing. The British police,
with the support of the Portuguese
police, is at the moment worried with my
trial. Don’t even doubt it. They are
troubled and are attempting in some way
to exert pressure on the trial...
João
Ferreira - So you, Gonçalo Amaral,
don’t have any doubts about that?
Gonçalo
Amaral - No, I don’t have any doubts
about that, because coincidences only
exist when we want them to happen. In
fact it has always been this way. If we
look at the history, if we create a
flowchart of the years since the trial
began and see when the investigation
peaks, all these peaks of when the
investigation goes on to the field and
media, don’t you doubt it will
correspond with the eve of a hearing
session of the trial, and this next
session is important...
João
Ferreira - Why?
Gonçalo
Amaral - This hearing on Monday is
important, it would be the closing
arguments. It would begin with the
statements of the parties, of all the
parties involved in the lawsuit, of the
couple who appealed against the judge's
decision to not hear them. I also hope
I'm allowed to speak, let us see if I'll
have that right, if they give me the
right to be heard seeing those who
accuse me will also be heard. Deep down
it has all to do with this. It does not
have as much to do with the possible
declaration of death in legal terms in
England but with the trial that is
taking place. And it has to do with
something that is very important. It’s
not known what happened to Maddie, it's
not known what happened...
João
Ferreira - Gonçalo Amaral, my
apologies for interrupting but...yes?
Gonçalo
Amaral -...But more importantly in
the middle of all this is to understand
what the mystery is that lies behind all
this and is protecting this couple.
João
Ferreira - Don’t you find it
excessive that the British police, in an
investigation that already has expenses
of about 5 million euros, is doing all
this - if I may say so, inferring from
your own words - in association with
Maddie’s parents solely to undermine
you?
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Broadcast by CMTV, July15, 2014 |
