The Truth of the Li(e)bel
Those unfamiliar with the Madeleine McCann case may be forgiven for thinking that the above image is a still from the old Star Trek series, where Captain Kirk and Spock beam down to an unknown planet with three suns. They find a strange race of Siamese Twins who wear white, and consider morality an unfamilar and unnecessary trait. It’s the only episode in the entire 60’s series where James T Kirk fails to find anyone remotely attractive and desirable. In fact he finds this strange race so repugnant that it’s only Spock’s intervention that stops Kirk nuking the planet.
The above image is of course Goncalo Amaral and his wife Sofia: It’s not often the wife of a policeman shoehorns herself into a missing child case, or any other case for that matter. Even Mrs Columbo managed to stay out of the limelight.
You may remember Sofia for her published letter to the mother of this missing child, where she boasts of her husband’s prowess in bed. In a more recent newspaper article she pleads poverty. No doubt she gave that interview from the passenger seat of her husband’s brand new Jaguar, bought with the profits from his book where he states Madeleine is dead and her parents were involved. The lack of evidence for such a claim didn’t seem to matter to him. But it seems to matter to the courts in Lisbon:
The Lisbon Civil Court ordered the seizure of all profits from the sale of the book “Maddie, the truth of the lie,” the former PJ inspector Gonçalo Amaral, following a lawsuit by the parents of British girl who disappeared in May 2007 in the Algarve. Clique para visitar o dossiê Desaparecimento de Madeleine McCann. Click to visit the dossier Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Ricardo Marques (http://www.expresso.pt)
According to the order of the court, the editors who published the book have already been informed that all proceeds of the sale and marketing of the work will be seized for the payment of an amount of 1.2 million.
Notifications of court procedure on this measure has followed for Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Spain, France, where the work was translated and published.
Gonçalo Amaral, the inspector who conducted the investigation in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, in 2007, was dismissed from the case following statements to the media.
The investigation of the disappearance of British girl of 3 years, in Praia da Luz, was filed on 21 June 2008.
In September, by order of Civil Court, the book had already been withdrawn from bookstores.
The book “Maddie, the truth of lies” was published in July 2008, published by War & Peace, and within two months had 12 editions of 10 thousand copies each.
That Jaguar bothers me greatly. It’s a symbol of a Faustian pact and the smashing to smithereens of a moral compass. What would one sell one’s soul for? Immortality? Eternal youth? World domination?
Surely not a Jag?
This man profited from Madeleine being abducted. He has a whole new career based solely on Madeleine being dead, with books, interviews at £80,000 a time, TV appearances, TV documentaries etc.
He has a symbiotic relationship with her abductor (who must worship the ground Amaral walks or drives on); and a parasitic relationship with the McCanns and with Madeleine herself.
This is the man who had control over the crime scene from day one. He had total control over the chain of evidence and was instrumental in determining how the case would proceed. He determined that Madeleine would not be looked for.
He then made a fortune and bought his Faustian Jag.
It’s life Jim, but not as we know it.
Hold the Captain’s Log Jim! It seems that the reassurance from Amaral’s internet groupies, of all the profits of his book going to a children’s charity, was false; a lie, an untruth, a deceit, a distortion,a fable, a myth, a fiction, an invention.
He set up his own company for the book and its spinoffs and made himself manager! How very charitable of him.
