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Jornal de Notícias, paper
edition, page 11, July 2,
2014 |
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by
Marisa Rodrigues
The British Police even asked the
Judiciary Police to start collecting
fingerprints and DNA profiles of the
four suspects now constituted as
arguidos. Even if it was done in a
sneaky way.
The request appears in a letter rogatory
dated of July last year, but was
challenged by the PJ, since it is an
illegality. At the request of Scotland
Yard, and with the endorsement of the
Portuguese Public Ministry, the suspects
were formally constituted arguidos, this
Tuesday, by the PJ inspectors of the
Southern Directorate in Faro.
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They even suggested illegal means
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Suspects started to be questioned
English ask for
DNA of arguidos at all costs
The British Police even asked the
Judiciary Police (PJ) to start
collecting fingerprints and DNA profiles
of the four suspects now constituted as
arguidos. Even if it was done in a
sneaky way.
by Marisa Rodrigues
The request appears in a letter rogatory
dated of July last year, but was
challenged by the PJ, since it is an
illegality. At the request of Scotland
Yard, and with the endorsement of the
Portuguese Public Ministry, the suspects
were formally constituted arguidos,
yesterday, by the PJ inspectors of the
Southern Directorate in Faro.
At least two arguidos didn't take
lawyers with them, lawyers who were
meanwhile appointed so the questionings
could take place. Waiting for them was a
list of over 250 questions. Most have
agreed to answer them. The questions
were made by the Judiciary Police
officers in the presence of British
detectives who could not intervene.
JN knows that the questionings were
concluded in the early evening and that
the arguidos aren't expected to return
to the PJ Directorate. The last to come
out, about 8:30pm, was Sergey Malinka, a
Russian with Portuguese citizenship who
had already been investigated in 2007
during the Portuguese investigation. At
the time his computers were seized and
his house was target of searches,
however nothing relevant was found. He
was a friend of Robert Murat, a former
arguido in the Portuguese case.
The other arguidos are José da Silva, a
former Ocean Club driver, Paulo Jorge
Ribeiro, unemployed who suffers from
schizophrenia, and Ricardo Jorge, who
was at the time 16 years old. They are
all residents in Praia da Luz, some live
close by one of the sites where searches
took place last month. It is Scotland
Yard's belief that they planned a
robbery to the apartment where the
McCanns where staying for their
holidays. That Madeleine woke up and was
murdered, and her body was carried away,
on the arms of one of the men, between
those streets packed with tourists.
This is a theory that makes no sense
whatsoever to the PJ. From today on, the
11 witnesses will begin to be questioned
also at the request of the Scotland
Yard.
Sniffer dogs to search cars
The English authorities brought sniffer
dogs from the United Kingdom, in the
eventuality that they are needed in the
sequence of the police interrogations
and constitution of arguidos, for
example, to search the arguidos cars.
The dogs are the same that have recently
took part of the searches on the field
in the Algarve. During the initial
investigation, in 2007, two dogs of the
same breed (Eddie and Keela) were used
in the recovery of vestiges.
Arguidos - The facts that have lead
the English to consider them suspects
Sergey Malinka, businessman, 30
years old
In 2007 he was thought to be a possible
suspect and was target of house
searches. Now, he is a suspect again
because he threw away a sofa that was
analysed by forensic experts where
similar hairs to others that were found
in the McCann's apartment were
discovered. There is also a hearsay
conversation that allegedly took place
near Malinka's house vicinity about a
body that needed to disappear. The
English valued the fact that the Russian
man's car was set on fire at the time
and that someone wrote "Fala" [Speak] on
the sidewalk.
José Silva, former driver, 38
years old
He used to work in the Ocean Club and is
pinpointed by the English as being the
person who would select the apartments
to be burglarized at the tourist resort
and would be the man in charge of
monitoring the tourists movements.
According to the Scotland Yard, he is
compromised by phone calls that he made
to other arguidos on the night of the
disappearance and in his similitude to
one e-fit that was made based on the
description of an Irish family that were
staying in Praia da Luz for their
holidays. He would be, according to
them, the famous man [Smithman] that was
seen carrying a child on his arms.
Paulo Ribeiro, unemployed, 51
years old
He became a suspect to the English
police because foreign tourists
described his erratic behaviour and
reported his presence near by the
McCanns apartment before the
disappearance. He suffers from a mental
disorder and he was also denounced for
his similarities with another e-fit
based on other witnesses statements who
identified him as being a beggar and
also for being connected with another
one of the arguidos [Ricardo Rodrigues]
with whom he spoke on the phone in the
day the crime took place.
Ricardo Rodrigues, unemployed, 23
years old
He was 16 years old at the time of the
disappearance and the English connect
him to the case because of mobile phone
calls he did before and after that
fateful event including a phone call to
Paulo Ribeiro. Another one of the
arguments alleged to incriminate him is
the fact that he fits with a description
made by witnesses who identified him as
one of the two beggars [the other was
Paulo Ribeiro] and of being a suspect of
robberies in the area of Praia da Luz.
He has also against him the fact that he
also lives close by the other men that
were constituted as arguidos at the
request of the English police.
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