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Trial which opposes Madeleine McCann
parents against Gonçalo Amaral to
restart next Monday
The trial of the process in which the
parents of Madeleine McCann ask for a
compensation of 1,2 million euro, for
alleged defamation [sic] by the former
Judiciary Police inspector Gonçalo
Amaral, is expected to restart next
Monday morning.
The hearings that were taking place at
the 1st Civil Court of Lisbon, at the
Palácio da Justiça, had been on hold
since October last year, so the parents
of the English girl who disappeared in
Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, in May
2007 could reach reach a court
settlement with Gonçalo Amaral.
Since no agreement was reached between
Gerry and Kate McCann and Gonçalo
Amaral, the judge who presides this
court action - action which has caused
Gonçalo Amaral's assets to be frozen as
a precautionary measure, has decided to
schedule the restart of the sessions for
Monday.
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The
adjournment was granted four months
after the trial began, on 12 September
2013, with the hearing of witnesses
indicated by the McCanns, which included
Gerry's sister.
The lawyer Isabel Duarte, the McCanns
trustee, waived the testimony of the
mother and father of Madeleine McCann.
In this action, the McCann couple, also
allege that the rights, freedoms and
guarantees of the family have been
infringed, and demand 1,2 million euros
in compensation from Gonçalo Amaral, who
investigated the disappearance of
Madeleine in May 3, 2007.
In the book "Maddie: The Truth of the
Lie", written by Gonçalo Amaral, the
former coordinator of the Criminal
Investigation Department of the
Judiciary Police of Portimão defends the
alleged involvement of Kate and Gerry
McCann in the child's disappearance and
in the concealment of her body.
In a connected legal action, the McCanns
submitted a temporary injunction banning
the book and the video based on the same
title, a documentary that was aired on
TVI [TV channel].
On January 19, 2010, the 7th Civil Court
of Lisbon decided to uphold the ban on
the book and the video, that had been
provisionally decreed in September 9,
2009.
Following legal recourse [by Gonçalo
Amaral, TVI, Guerra e Paz and Valentim
de Carvalho's defence lawyers], the
Lisbon Appeals Court decided on 19th
October 2010 to overturn the ruling [the
ban] of the first instance court.
Kate and Gerry McCann appealed to the
Supreme Court of Justice seeking for the
overturn to be nullified, but the
Supreme Court of Justice refused their
request and confirmed the decision of
the Lisbon Appeals Court, in 18 March
2011.
Madeleine McCann disappeared from an
apartment in a tourist resort in Praia
da Luz, while on holidays with her
parents and twin siblings.
The girl had then three years old and
the parents have always sustained that
she was abducted.
Madeleine's parents were constituted as
arguidos [formal suspects] in September
2007, nevertheless the process
[investigation] was archived for lack of
evidentiary proof in July 2008.
The process was re-opened on the 24th of
October last year, after the Public
Prosecutor's Office concluded that there
were "new evidentiary elements to
justify the continuation of the
investigation."
in Agência Lusa [Lusa news agency],
June 11, 2014
Note - Date confirmed, first trial
session on Monday, 16th June at 09.30am
at
Palácio da Justiça in Lisbon |
Related
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in Libel Trial
Court reports by Anna Guedes |
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