SOS Madeleine McCann: Photos that never reached the Portuguese investigators.

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Your photos never reached the Portuguese investigators.

To this day, the PJ have not received any photos at all resulting from the campaign launched by the Leicestershire police, asking tourists who were on holiday in Praia da Luz to send copies of photos taken during the two weeks preceding Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

The appeal had been launched by Leicestershire police, in coordination with CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) and the Association of Chief Police Officers. (ACPO)

According to a source close to the investigation in the United Kingdom, several hundred photos were sent to the British authorities, most of them downloaded via internet pages specially created for the occasion.

"We will then evaluate these images - at a rate of 1000 images an hour - so that before long we are sending the significant information to the Portuguese authorities. " Jim Gamble, head of CEOP had promised.

According to Jim Gamble, the official objective of this campaign was to make progress with the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, using, notably, a programme of facial recognition for all the people "who might seem out of place or to be behaving strangely."

"Wondering what the real purpose was of launching the public appeal....We have not had access to those photos," one of the investigators confirms, stressing that the only photos the PJ were able to receive came to them directly from witnesses.

Duarte Levy & Paulo Reis

04/09/08

SOS Madeleine McCann 5/07/08: Kate and Gerry McCann before the High Court in London.

Monday 7th July is the day on which Kate and Gerry McCann's petition is presented before the High Court in London. They are seeking to obtain access to the information held by Leicestershire police, which they say may help their private investigators in the search for their daughter Madeleine.

This article from SOS Madeleine McCann on Saturday 5th July 2008.

Kate et Gerry McCann devant la Cour Suprême de Londres

Lundi, sept juillet, Kate et Gerry McCann, les parents de Madeleine, la petite Britannique donnée comme disparue au Portugal, vont comparaitre devant la section famille de la Cour Suprême de Londres où, selon leur porte-parole, ils veulent demander qu’il soit ordonné à la Police du Leicestershire de leur donner accès aux documents concernant l’enquête à la disparition de leur fille.

Kate and Gerry McCann before the London High Court.

On Monday July 7th, Kate and Gerry McCann, parents of Madeleine, the little British girl understood to have disappeared in Portugal, will appear before the family division of the High Court in London where, according to their spokesperson, they wish to request that the Leicestershire police be ordered to give them access to documents concerning the investigation into their daughter's disappearance.

Le procès, ouvert au public et identifié comme “FD07P01121 McCann”, commence à 10 h 30 devant la Juge Hogg, fille de l'ancien "Lord Chancellor" Lord Hailsham et soeur de l'ancien ministre de l’Agriculture Douglas Hogg.

Selon Clarence Mitchell, l’ancien responsable de l’Unité de Surveillance des Médias auprès du gouvernement britannique, devenu le porte-parole des McCann, le couple prétend avoir accès aux dossiers tenus par la police de Leicestershire afin de poursuivre les recherches de Madeleine. La police britannique arguera du fait que le contenu du dossier concerne les bases d’un cas criminel et que comme tell il devrait être maintenu confidentiel.

The proceedings, which are open to the public and identified as "FD07P01121McCann", start at 10.30am before Judge Hogg, daughter of the former, "Lord Chancellor," Lord Hailsham and sister of the former Minister for Agriculture, Douglas Hogg.

According to Clarence Mitchell, former head of the British government's Media Monitoring Unit, now the McCann's spokesman, the couple are claiming access to the files held by the Leicestershire police in order to continue their search for Madeleine. The British police will argue that the contents of the file constitute the basis of a criminal case and as such must be kept confidential.

Selon un officier de liaison de la police britannique, la révélation anticipée de la présence des McCann devant la Cour Suprême, faite par initiative de Clarence Mitchell, est une manœuvre adoptée par le couple pour atténuer l’impacte auprès de l’opinion publique de l’annonce de la mise sous tutelle de Madeleine, une information que serait de toute manière abordée au cours du procès de lundi.

Le même officier accuse le couple McCann de rechercher à prendre connaissance de l’avancement de l’investigation et des détails connus de la police dans un souci de préparer leur défense et non de relancer les recherches de Madeleine.

According to a British police liaison officer, the early disclosure of the McCanns' appearance before the High Court, on the initiative of Clarence Mitchell, is an action adopted by the couple to lessen the impact on public opinion of the announcement of Madeleine's being made a ward of court, information which, anyway, would be addressed in the course of the proceedings on Monday.

The same officer accuses the McCann couple of seeking to find out the progress of the investigation and the details known to the police only for preparing their defence and not for relaunching the search for Madeleine.

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5/07/08

PJ: the interrogations have reinforced the convictions of the inspectors.

"Pendant que les McCann sont en Belgique et la PJ au Royaume-Uni"

"Interrogatoires ont renforcé la conviction des inspecteurs : "il y a en a qui ont menti "

Vu comme une dernière tentative pour faire avancer l’enquête à la disparition de Madeleine McCann, l’interrogatoire des sept amis de Kate et Gerry McCann, les Tapas 7, à renforcé la conviction des inspecteurs de la Police Judiciaire et de ses collègues britanniques de que la clé du mystère réside au sein du groupe : "il y a en qui ont menti", à confirmé une source de la police du Leicestershire soulignant que "face à ce que nous avons entendu ces derniers jours, il devient incompréhensible que les parents continuent à leur accorder une total confiance".

(à suivre)

While the McCanns are in Belgium and the PJ in the UK.

Interrogations have reinforced the convictions of the inspectors: there are those who have lied.

See as a last opportunity to make progress with the enquiry into Madeleine McCann's disappearance, the interrogation of the seven friends of Kate and Gerry McCann, the Tapas 7, has reinforced the conviction of the PJ inspectors and their British colleagues that the key to the mystery lies with the group: "there are those who have lied," a source from the Leicestershire police confirmed, stressing that, "faced with what we have heard these last days, it is becoming incomprehensible that the parents continue to place total confidence in them."

(to be continued)

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