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Netflix Madeleine McCann

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mumineedawee · 16/03/2019 17:57

AIBU to think that any coverage of her disappearance is a good thing. I watched two episodes of the Netflix programme and think that if it were to bring her back into the spotlight, then surely it’s worthwhile? I’m on my own in that opinion here in our house.

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beebreath · 17/03/2019 11:11

@Peopleshouldread

Has all that 11 million been public money or the privately funded investigation and donations ?

Desperateforspring · 17/03/2019 11:13

Yes I do think it's important to keep going. . esp if criminal gang got her.

. it's vital to understand exactly what went wrong here's with everything... investigating Etc and hopefully God forbid this ever happened again... a far more slick operation would move into gear.

KittyLane1 · 17/03/2019 11:14

I don't think he has ASD, I just observed from his interviews and the way he engaged initially with the press and police that he was either involved ( disproven) or that he was naive and trusting and perhaps lacking the social awareness that Lori Campbell and other members of the press were finding him creepy and suspicious.

Also his naivety when the police called him, he jumped out of bed and rushed to help and they essentially ambushed him, he never seemed to stop and question their motives.

Although, of course, as he was proven innocent it may not have occurred to him that he may have been a suspect.

acciocat · 17/03/2019 11:18

Pretty sure the £11 million is Operation Grange - so the Met police investigation. Of course there are privately funded investigations too

ColeHawlins · 17/03/2019 11:19

Lori Campbell was a complete twunt in that regard, and should be ashamed.

I don't think he has ASD,

Well good, but why the next three paragraphs of weirdness from you on the subject, then?

If you get this thread deleted like you did the last one with your tin foil hat bollocks, you won't be very popular.

KittyLane1 · 17/03/2019 11:24

It appears I am not very popular anyway.

Why would this thread get deleated because I posted that I got the impression that someone may have ASD ? I never formally diagnosed the guy did I ?

Worzilgummidge · 17/03/2019 11:24

Heck fell asleep whilst a 5 year old played around a pool omg.

ColeHawlins · 17/03/2019 11:28

Just don't drag us back into "angry red top readers uncover conspiracy" territory again please @KittyLane1

Peopleshouldread · 17/03/2019 11:28

@beebreath Operation Grange spent 7 million pounds by 2014. The rest has been accumulated since in increments when the police requested it.So yes, public money.
The family did at one stage have a fund of around 4 million pounds they raised, but I believe that is pretty much gone, and wouldn't have been used for the actual police operation as I don't believe they can accept funds from private individuals to pay for the police investigations.. Add or include the funds the Portuguese have spent as well.
It's a huge amount of money for one missing child, as shitty as that sounds.

NoCauseRebel · 17/03/2019 11:28

I can’t see the point in this documentary to be honest other than it just being another of the world’s great unsolved mysteries of all time.

People who believe this is going to “bring Maddie home” are delusional. Exactly how do people think this is going to happen? Anyone who believes that she is somehow living happily ever after somewhere else and is going to run home to her long lost family when she reaches adulthood are quite mad. Quite apart from anything else, she was three when she went missing. She won’t even know that she’s Madeline McCann. She won’t know who her parents are, she won’t remember she had siblings, not consciously anyway. So even if she were out there living some happy life as a child of the illegal adoption trade, that would have been it for her. Finding out who she was and what she represented would probably be far more traumatic to her in fact than having been “stolen” in the first place.

But I don’t believe that any of that happened as it is.

NameChanger22 · 17/03/2019 11:29

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TacoLover · 17/03/2019 11:32

NoCauseRebel I think everything you've said is unfortunately correct. Madeline, if still alive, doesn't know she's Madeline. I think there's no chance of them ever finding her because of that.

XXcstatic · 17/03/2019 11:33

We are nice people but we've done twatish things. Bit like the McCanns but we didn't deserve to lose our son forever

This. All parents make miscalculations. I think the reality is that some parents would never have done what the McCanns did, and others did/would have done, but won't admit it. But, whether you would have left your kids asleep in a hotel or not, if you are a parent or carer, at some point you have fucked up in a way that put your DC at risk. But 99.99% of the time we get away with it, thank God.

A lot of the McCann blaming is like blaming women for walking alone at night, then getting attacked. We do it because we are afraid, and don't want to admit that it could ever happen to us, so it's easier to blame the victims for taking an unnecessary risk that to admit that we all have to take risks all the time, and sometimes we get it wrong with terrible consequences.

stopitandtidyupp · 17/03/2019 11:35

The number of break ins in the area and a man lying down with two children wearing a mask is strange too.

acciocat · 17/03/2019 11:38

‘A lot of the McCann blaming is like blaming women for walking alone at night, then getting attacked.’

It really isnt like that.

Yes all parents take calculated risks. Yes some other parents would have done the same as the mccanns. But you really can’t make that comparison.

And as I keep saying, I don’t think the ‘McCann blaming’ is all about the initial leaving their little children alone - I think a lot of the unease about them is the way the investigation and all the public funds have progressed since that initial incident.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 17/03/2019 11:39

Petty I know but it’s Madeleine not Madeline.

I would assume that the apartment was left unlocked for various reasons, they felt lulled into a false sense of security, they felt the area was safe, possibly though it would be easier to check on the children without having to keep passing the key around. I’m not sure whether the other parents locked their doors?

Regarding SS well I’m sure they looked at the bigger picture and not just this incident in isolation like they would do in any case.

SleepingSloth · 17/03/2019 11:45

It's a huge amount of money for one missing child, as shitty as that sounds.

I think that as the police seem to think Madeleine has been taken by a large paedophile ring, the money is not really just being spent on one child. If they can solve this case or even if they can't, investigating may result in convicting a huge number of people involved in evil criminal activity. I don't understand anyone who would not want the police to continue investigating in order to try to convict people who would take and abuse any one of our children without any thought for the child and their family. These people are depraved. Do people realise what they are arguing for when they want the money and investigation stopped?

agirlhasnonameX · 17/03/2019 11:45

I've always thought maybe they left the door unlocked for emergencies, which I know sounds stupid in hindsight, but if it was me maybe I would have done this thinking I might need quick access to the room, or if there was a fire for example, my kids would be locked in

NameChanger22 · 17/03/2019 11:46

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jacksonmaine · 17/03/2019 11:47

From the beginning I always felt that there was a cover up by the Portugese authorities.

The way everything moved so slowly. The way they tried to pin it on the McCann's so quickly. The lack of communication and help/ blocks on British Police involvement -this had a massive impact on the investigation. I think they wanted to either downplay the criminal rings operating in Portugal as tourism would be directly affected or there were/are high level Police operating in these rings and it is being covered up.

I for one have boycotted Portugal after this happened to Madeleine Mcann.

itwaseverthus · 17/03/2019 11:48

I find so much of this tragic case odd. I remember reading about an Irish holiday maker, Martin Smith, seeing a man carry a 'sleeping' child through the streets that fateful night then months later calling police when he saw Gerry McCann hold one of his twins leaving the plane on arrival back in England. Seems he had a jolt of recognition. Then when the Panorama programme was aired, it wrongly claimed that Mr Smith had withdrawn his statement...most odd. www.pressreader.com/

UnspiritualHome · 17/03/2019 11:48

So why do you have to say that for the millionth time, NameChanger22?

NameChanger22 · 17/03/2019 11:48

Agirl - if you had thought about the possibility of a fire, you wouldn't have left 2 babies and a toddler on their own.

MotherToMany · 17/03/2019 11:50

Can anyone shed any light on why the two dogs only alerted to the McCann's apartment and car despite being led through several others? I understand there wasn't enough forensic evidence to attach guilt but that was a massive coincidence.

I read last night that the dogs and their handler now work for the FBI.

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