Goncalo Amaral - Truth of the Lie - Madeleine McCann / Maddie A Verdade da Mentira

The reading of this publication is only made possible by the tireless and voluntaryefforts of Anna Andress.

Thank you.

From the web site:

http://thetruthaboutthelie.blogspot.com/2009/09/complete-book-on-one-page.html Important note: The work of Anna Andress in remarkable, since there is no official translation from the original in Portuguese to English.

However, this translation is not totally accurate, for two reasons: 1) The original Portuguese edition has 23 chapters. This translation has 22.

The differences are:

From chapter 1 to 16 the order is the same.

In chapter 16 of the English translation, all the text beginning with the title: INITIAL

CONCLUSIONS (page 74) until the end (page 75) are part of the chapter 17 in the Portuguese edition.

Chapters 17 to 22 correspond to 18 to 23 in the original edition 2) Some aspects of idiomatic meaning are hard to keep when a book is translated, and in this case, the role of the translator is as important as the author.

However, this is the only translation known, thankful to Anna Andress.

Since this is a copy of a text published in a web site for anyone read, this is public domain and no copyright infringements.

Index

1 Precipitation?

Certainly

not...............................................................................1

Madeleine Beth Mccann's holiday.....................................................................8

Announcement of a disappearance: the first 72 hours.....................................12

The real victim is the missing child.................................................................30

The days that followed ....................................................................................33

The arrival of the english police......................................................................38

7 Suspicious

behaviour and contradictions ........................................................40

A man with a child in his arms ........................................................................46

Majorca, September 2005................................................................................48

10 Rethinking the facts.........................................................................................50

Analysis of a crime scene. Apartment 5A .......................................................52

A rather weak monitoring system....................................................................57

Contradictions or clues ....................................................................................60

Madeleine's parents call attention to her death................................................63

Memory of a crime ..........................................................................................65

The hypothesis of death is considered.The arrival of the specialists...............68

In the Mccanns' bedroom.................................................................................76

18 Preliminary results...........................................................................................78

Towards placing the Mccann couple under investigation ...............................84

An Irish family in a state of shock...................................................................87

The dismissal of the head of an investigation: conspiracy or submission? .....88

Ria de Alvor, one year on................................................................................92

A Verdade da Mentira

by Goncalo Amaral

Foreword

Certainly, this book responds to the need I felt to defend myself, having been discredited by the institution for which I worked for more than twenty-six years, without being given any chance to explain myself, publicly or within the institution itself. I made the request several times, but it was never heard. I, therefore, scrupulously respected the rules of the police judiciaire and I refrained from making any comment.

But this goes without saying: I experienced that silence to which I was constrained as an attack on my dignity. Later, I was removed from the investigation. It was then that I understood that it was time to speak. To do that, I requested early retirement in order to be able to express myself freely.

However, the purpose of this work is more important: to contribute to finding the truth so that justice can finally be done in the investigation known as the "Maddie case."

Truth and justice are two values strongly anchored within me, which reflect my profound beliefs: they always guided the work I did for the institution to which I am proud to have belonged. Even in retirement, they continue to inspire me and to be present in my life.

In no way does this text seek to challenge the work of my colleagues in the police judiciaire or to compromise the ongoing investigation. I am convinced that the disclosure of all the facts may, in the present case, result in harming the investigation.

However, the reader will have access to unpublished information, to new interpretations of events - always with respect for the law - and, of course, to relevant enquiries.

The only objective of a criminal investigation is the search for truth. There is no place for the "politically correct."

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A Verdade Da Mentira: The Truth About The Lie

Chapter 1

PRECIPITATION? CERTAINLY NOT

FEBRUARY 2008, NINE MONTHS AFTER MADDIES DISAPPEARANCE.

ITS CARNIVAL SUNDAY. In the distance the shots of the hare hunters can be heard, resounding above the low-growing vegetation of the Barrocal.

On waking, I decide to stay at home. Recently, Ive had no wish to go out, to go walking or to meet people. I yearn instead for peace and silence. That morning, the sun was shining, promise of a lovely day: but in the afternoon, the rain began to fall, ruining the fte and the parades.

From the window I admire the Algarve countryside: the pink and snowy-white of the almond trees contrasting with the blue of the sea that is glimpsed in the distance.

Suddenly, the ringing of the telephone more and more unusual of late brings me out of my lethargy; I have to face reality.

From the receiver, a friendly voice, swinging between anger and sadness, asks me:

- How are you? Have you heard our national directors interview?

I reply no and wonder what the clearly perceptible anxiety of my questioner is due to.

- He says we were precipitous. That placing the couple under investigation was premature.I wonder whats come over him. He totally validated that decision. What is he intending to do? End the investigation?

He is alluding to the investigations undertaken after the disappearance of a little English girl of nearly four years of age during the night of May 3rd to 4th 2007, at the Ocean Club, one of the many tourist complexes in the village of Luz in Lagos, Portugal. She was called Madeleine Beth McCann and she was sleeping in a bedroom in the apartment block, beside her sister and her brother twins aged 2 years. During this time, their parents were dining a hundred metres away with a group of friends and holiday companions. This news story was the beginning of a criminal investigation, unpublished in Portugal and, I think, in the rest of the world. Even so, the case benefited from unprecedented international media coverage. Numerous suggestions were put forward, mixing truth and lies; at the same time as regular information bulletins from the police, a campaign of disinformation was developed with the objective of discrediting the work of the investigators. For me, the investigations came to an end on October 2nd 2007, the date on which there seems to have been a new English ultimatum, incidentally on the same day that the Treaty of Lisbon was being discussed.