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Madeleine McCann - we need YOUR help to try and find this little girl.

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ThisIsDavinaPleaseDoNotSwear · 11/05/2007 09:27

This is slipping from the news and the police are starting to scale down their seraches.

Evidence seems to suggest that Madeline may have been taken to Spain and yet very few people out there are aware of what has happened or what she looks like etc.

We need to send as many emails as we can to Spanish businesses with a poster attachment and highlight this case.

I need mumsnetters to volunteer.

I have called in sick today to get this started but this is a massive task and I cannot do it on my own.

Please let me know if you can help.

OP posts:
UCM · 14/05/2007 23:13

I have had 9 messages in my inbox regarding her poster (from different sources) so thats good at least it's circulating around the world as one came from Sweden, one from Brazil etc.

Whoooosh · 14/05/2007 23:15

Wannabe-if this latest development comes to nothing in Portugal then I think it is definitely worth persuing the SA connection.ANything you can dowould definitely be a help.

hk78 · 14/05/2007 23:23

hi just reading this thread while watching newsnight:
not saying it's relevant but

i have just heard on newsnight that 1 or 2 women and 2 children have been taken by police out of his estranged family home in norfolk

MeAndMyBoys · 14/05/2007 23:51

I've mailed colleagues in spain and italy. One works in the british consulate in Italy and is going to ask about putting up posters there.

Rantum · 15/05/2007 09:08

BUMP - recent news is almost all speculation, Madeleine is still missing.

tatt · 15/05/2007 09:30

what about foreign language speakers posting on other parenting internet forums? I imagine mothers in other countries have such forums too? A search for foro parenting (parenting forum in spanish) suggests there may be some but I'm having problems accessing the sites.

MeAndMyBoys · 15/05/2007 10:53

Had a response back from a colleague in spain, they live near the Almeria Port and they, and friends, are putting up posters around the port area today.

They mentioned the story is getting coverage in their area.

fifisworld · 15/05/2007 12:28

Ive had a response back from 2 of the coach tour companies who tour europe and they have both said they have posters up at all of the reosrts they use.
Also 02 have apparently sent text messages across the network in spain and portugal appealing for information.

debbsyandsonn · 15/05/2007 12:42

brill fifi

AbbaTsmum · 15/05/2007 13:38

I have received a response from HIVE (an organisation with offices throughout the world, supporting military families) and a copy of the message they sent to all the HIVES throughout the world - including the Falklands and Belize!

Those of you who have requested the new poster of Madeleine, I will email within the next 30mins.

fifisworld · 15/05/2007 15:05

Ive just had an email from Siesta Holidays and they are going to get the posters downloaded and they are going to distribute them asap as they wern't already doing this

eliselady · 15/05/2007 16:56

Ok, have emailed all spanish friends I know and my hubby's spanish offices, and put on an american website.

What else can I do?

SAMSPO · 15/05/2007 17:23

www.google.com/language_tools this link translates english into some languages (including spanish) this could be useful for translating letter etc. Hope this helps. thanks

tiredemma · 15/05/2007 17:24

My old manager who is ops manager for a major tour op has arranged for reps in mallorca to put up posters around resort- she is contacting other ops managers to do the same in all mediterranean resorts.

quietmouse · 16/05/2007 08:05

have not had any replies as yet from either the Moroccon or Tunisian tourist board.....

But have posters on their way to Tunisia, Spain and Poland.

Budababe · 16/05/2007 08:19

Just heard Madeleine, Portugal and the various names of those who have done appeals and contributed to the reward mentioned on Hungarian radio. The presenters then proceeded to chat about it for a moment - no idea what they said though!

AmberRose · 16/05/2007 17:49

I think it is really important to emphasise the multi mullion euro reward for her 'safe' return. Money really does talk.

Oblomov · 16/05/2007 20:59

Just got back from Ibiza today.
There doesn't seem to be much talk about the Madeleine there. And people were saying that there is not much talk about it in mainland Spain.
Mind you, the story has slipped from the papers aswell. Some of the papers we saw - both English and Spanish had a small article, on say page 13, or no articles at all.
The story is already slipping out of the limelaught, dramatically.

mumemma · 16/05/2007 21:24

Sorry it's taken a while but I've now converted AbbaTsmum's posters into pdfs and put them onto my website for downloading.

As a reminder, the key points seemed to be the distinctive eye that she has, the reward on offer and the international, rather than UK number. None of the posters seemed to combine these so AbbaTsmum created two that did (thanks!) - one in English and one in Spanish. I've also done one that doesn't have much text but has 'missing' in French, Spanish and Portuguese as well as English. If anyone spots any errors on these or has any problems downloading, please let me know.

Here's the link

bozzy · 16/05/2007 22:29

I live in Gibraltar and travel regularly to Spain. I met a woman who lives in Spain who had no idea about the story. I also saw someone this afternoon with a load of posters that he looked to be distributing and have seen a poster on someones car here. I will download the poster and put in on my car and ask others to do the same (they live in Spain)

jampot · 16/05/2007 22:40

"A dream

I have had a dream that might have been about the missing girl, Madelaine McCann. I don?t want to waste police time, but neither can I have it on my conscience if the information in my dream proves to help find her in some way, so I do feel I have to send this letter just in case. Just not sure where to send it? I have been known to have prophetic dreams in the past, so it might be worth looking into.

On the night of 9th May 2007 I dreamed of a girl being taken in the back of a white utility truck. The truck was open at the back and was usually used to carry melons (water-melons?) or something similar. In the dream I saw a box or container, with the little girl inside of it, on the back of the white utility truck. This box or container was attached to the base of the back of the truck I felt. The truck was the kind that has a cabin at the front that can seat two people or so. It had a low, open back, with a drop down flap at the back. The truck was covered in dust, particularly the windscreen, as if it had been travelling in the heat and dust.

I then saw the truck pull up at a house in Spain, in a place called Madeira? There seemed to be a dock or marina area close by too. This was a residential area, and the girl was taken into a house by the man; the driver of the truck. I got the name Serge?

I then saw a woman inside the house, wearing black lace and even a black lace head veil. Almost got the feeling of mourning. In the window of this house is a black and white cat, an adult cat, not really old, but not a kitten either. It roams around the house and outside area, and usually looks out of the side window of the house.

All the curtains in the house are closed, apart from those in the kitchen. The kitchen door is kept closed, to separate it from the rest of the house. The house looks fairl modern outside, although inside it is really old fashioned and everything is worn and tattered, though clean.

Outside the house is a carport, with a wooden structure making up the roof, and support poles holding it up on one side. The car port roof is not a solid roof, it is made up of thin slats of wood that have been stained with a brown colour, and these crisscross, with empty squares between them open to the sky. It looks like something that vines or something similar would be grown across. The other side of the car port roof joins onto the house. The house has a square shaped arial on the roof. There may also be one or two little lizards outside.

The man, who I got the name Serge connected with, seems to be the son of the woman, since she is a lot older than him and they appear to share the same house. The man also has a girlfriend, who visits, who I saw in the dream a dark haired, happy person who knows nothing of what is going on. In the dream, when she visited the man, he talked to her in the kitchen, and did not invite her further into the house.

Inside the house, the woman in the black lace is nursing the child, who is crying a lot and feeling unhappy. In the dream the child was missing her mother, and was being given a bottle with some milk in it, even though she seems as if she could drink from a cup. The bottle was an old fashioned type of bottle, with a light blue line running around the rim and a rubber teat.

The little girl is being kept in a dark bedroom. This bedroom seems to be on the ground floor of the house. There is a plastic or rubber protective sheet on the bed, and a safety gate at the doorway of the bedroom. The bedroom curtains are closed, and they appear to have old fashioned flower print on them?lots of brown and orange type colours, and rounded basic shape flower petals and centres, and very old. The curtains are thin as well, and some light filters through the pale/cream areas on the background of the curtain pattern. The girl spends a lot of time standing at the safety gate crying for things.

I also saw a V shape, but it was as if the V was written around in 3 lines along each side of the V, and the V shape seemed to be inside a square, again drawn with 3 or more parallel lines on each side of the square. It looks like the logo of a car or company logo perhaps.

The girl seems to be wearing old adult T-shirts, with a pair of adult socks that flop around at the ends of her feet and are coloured red. I got the impression there was not any nappies for the little girl, or any children?s clothes for her to wear, so the older woman was making do in looking after her.

That?s all I got, I do hope that it is useful, or if it isn?t, I?m sorry and I hope she is found soon.

Karen"

the above was posted on Pewari's Prattle blog as mentioned further down. I see this russian's name is Sergey. Sounds too weird for my liking. I wonder whether she actually knows something rather than has just dreamed it.

mommajools · 16/05/2007 22:48

I read that'dream' about five days or so ago!
it was a link on the other thread

strange about the name?

quietmouse · 16/05/2007 22:48

that's made me shiver.

I suppose that would really be the best case scenario so maybe we should be hoping this woman does know something/is psychic.

jampot · 16/05/2007 22:52

i read it days ago too but now that they've named a russian as Sergey it gave me goosebumps.

quietmouse · 16/05/2007 22:54

could you email it to anyone jampot? Just in case

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