Weird, dark underbelly to this place?

[Almondcakefortea]

The Algarve?

This poor man who recently went missing on his stag do and was very sadly found dead.
Madeleine McCann of course
Reading up on things and apparently so many reports of people going missing over the years or bodies being found

Feels strange

OMFG!

Was the Algarve not known as a paedophiles playground before Madeline went missing?

I think this thread is reminding us that MN does indeed have a dark underbelly where people leap to bizarre conclusions based on ignorance and prejudice.

Don’t be so daft. The bloke would have got pissed and got lost, and fallen. No mystery about it.

How on earth do you know that is not true.

I think many tourist hotspots unfortunately have deaths due to misadventure and people being unfamiliar, intoxicated and letting their gaurd down on holiday. Obviously this is very sad but I dont think points to anything shady or conspiracy theory

I disagree that the MM case points to dark underbelly in Portugal...MM went missing because her parents thought it a good idea to leave 3 toddlers alone in an apartment whilst they went out for the night.

I’m not sure you can blame Portugal for that?

Exactly

But it's the modern way of the 2020s to then watch TikTok videos or equivalent where some grifter links a completely discrete incident, to something else that happened 18 years ago,

and then those who want to be seen as having more knowledge, can passionately tell the rest of us how the mainstream media is fooling us

You’ve seen children wolf whistled in England, Italy and France?

Sadly, think it's us Scots who hold the title for most heroin addicts per capita 😥

Don’t know specificly about the Algarve but I spent 6 weeks walking pretty much the length of Portugal last year. As a lone female, I didn’t feel unsafe once. Granted I wasn’t in the most ‘touristy’ places, apart from walking through Lisbon and Porto. But honestly it felt a hell of a lot safer than doing a similar thing elsewhere.

I even watched a few football matches in bars along the way, just because why not, and as a lone female in a bar I felt completely fine. Can’t say I’d be unbothered in a uk pub alone when a football match is on. Especially as I was openly supporting the British teams against the local teams in the champions league matches.

And as for the drugs, -Scotland, that’s officially the worst place for drugs in the world. And has been for years. So the uk can hardly talk.

https://transformdrugs.org/blog/scotland-is-drug-death-capital-of-the-world-heres-how-we-can-shed-that-title

And that's just their police

Yes it was true, it did happen. You're wrong! End of.

It's one of the safest countries in the world. Terrible things happen everywhere

And as for the drugs, -Scotland, that’s officially the worst place for drugs in the world. And has been for years. So the uk can hardly talk

The US took that crown away from us a number of years ago, presumably due to the proliferation of Fentanyl

It's sad , very, but he jumped over a wall and didn't know there was a cliff drop on the other side.

How is that mysterious @Almondcakefortea ?

actually children have been going missing in Portugal for some time at the time of Madeleine Mcanns disappearance it was reported about Portuguese children missing from the Algarve and in each case the approach taken by the police was the parents had killed them and were covering it up.

Yes, very unlikely to be locals

@MoominUnderWater "I thought this was going to be a thread about MN having a dark underbelly. Am a bit disappointed."

🤣 Me too! Thought I was going to get some much-needed entertainment.

Just HOW high does one have to be to be the highest heroin addict in the world?! That's pretty impressive

Just read the whole thread and realised others took the same conclusion about this unfathomably 'high' heroin addict. Apologies.
I'll take this opportunity to give an example of blatant internalised misogyny however! Assumptions ahoy to give that title to a bloke.

Why can't a woman take the title of the highest heroin addict for a change.

Anywhere marketed as a party destination for tourists is going to have quite a bit of crime and drunken idiocy going on. Even within small towns there will be streets which are lovely, family-oriented places and streets full of drunken yobbos with their tops off, and obviously occasionally the yobbos will wander into the nicer bits and vice versa.

How high was that heroin addict, then?

see this is why we need to bring back the laughter reaction!

OP, MMC was nearly 20 years ago now, how many people do you think have visited (let alone lived in) the area since then?

Please don't make me tap the "It's the availability heuristic" sign.

My colleague is Portugese and says it has really high rates of sex trafficking, sex crimes, DV and infanticide /femicide

She would never live there again