EDITOR OF EXPRESSO NEWSPAPER - PORTUGUESE - SPEAKS OUT ON HATE

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Shame on Justice and newspapers
Henrique Monteiro
8:00 Friday, January 24, 2014

here are cases that fill me with shame. Say that shame of being Portuguese, certain terms vindictive, jealous or intolerant particularities. Then I think that other people should also make peace and have me.

This is the purpose of the child who disappeared in Madeira, having appeared three days later. Or young people who died in Meco beach more or less unexplained manner. With a huge feature creep up charges (excuse to come say they are journalists, I know they are journalists and policemen and magistrates, although not knowing where the wave starts, I know through these three vertices, at least). In the case of Madeira baby of 18 months were placed several hypotheses, including the abduction because a baby could not stand living three days. The idea seems plausible, but pediatricians and Mario Valente Paula Cordeiro (the latter with extensive published work claim - stressing not know the contours of the case, as indeed no one seems to know -. It is not so says Mario Lamb, in my view , quite rightly: "The human being has an inherent, resulting ability of many thousands of years of ancient history that is in our anthropological memory to survive in extreme conditions," Well, the world did not start yesterday, or even the year. who founded the police.

In the case of Meco, there are faint hints against a young man who survived. The youth may be in shock by the simultaneous loss of six friends and moreover still be wrongfully accused, but does it matter? It takes a culprit! Nothing can happen without a culprit!

For example, when the parents of Maddie (defendants came into being) without the least consistency, or even more strange cases like Leonor Cipriano, arrested after tortured at the headquarters of the PJ of Portimão, accused of killing her daughter is accused whose body never appeared.  Of course I have no idea what happened, only stress that you can not have this lightly in addressing the issues, because there are disturbing precedent.

There must be guilty, there must be guilty! This screams the crowd and call the newspapers! It's not new, but it is always shocking to see how human nature has not changed significantly. Maybe by a strange atavism, continue to rave about the new models of crucifixions, autos-da-fe or shootings in the public square.

From Justice4McCann family and Stop the Myths with thanks.

Expresso

(Translated by Astro)

The 'judicial secrecy' and the press' 'lies'

Henrique Monteiro, chief editor
28 July 2008

Who lied in the Maddie case? The answer lies in what is told by former inspector Gonçalo Amaral. All the fantastic and never proved theories that a certain press has spread are in his book. And they remain without any evidence to sustain them.

Gonçalo Amaral must be a man who is full of himself. He was responsible for a calamitous investigation in the 'Maddie case', but according to the balance that he does, everyone is to blame except for him.

According to Gonçalo, the blame lies with the fact that the McCanns' apartment was not preserved, with the British police that did not fully cooperate, with the journalists that stood in the way, with Her Majesty's government that pressured, with the Portuguese government that let itself be pressured, with the prosecutors, with the PJ's directors, with the conspiracy of the powerful and – if he is allowed to continue unloading – it will hit the CIA, the Masonry, Opus Dei, the Trilateral, Bildberg and the Pope, the usual suspects of the conspiracy theories that circulate on the internet.

The same inspector must not be inhibited (not to mention being ashamed), because after the suspicions that befall him due to the conduction of the 'Joana case' (another missing girl, whose mother, who was condemned over her death, accuses the PJ of torturing her) and the disaster of the 'Maddie case', he pretends to be a national hero and the holder of the truth, against everything and against everyone, and he maintains an absurd theory that does not resist a minimally structured analysis.

Amaral probably didn't think about the fact that it does not become him to talk and to write in detail about a process which – despite having been widely abused – is still under judicial secrecy, either. Or that it does not become him to be a judge in his own cause.

But the most interesting about the former inspector's book is that we get to know where the famous 'lies' from the media that everyone talked about, came from. Finally, we can verify that the most unbelievable theories came out of that illuminated brain. And that certain newspapers, lacking a better option, published them without contradicting, without investigating, without logics and without evidence.

But Gonçalo continues to state his 'conviction' that Maddie died in the apartment. He must have inherited from medieval justice, this notion of 'conviction' without evidence; or from Alice, by Carrol, the idea that first the criminal's head is cut off and then the trial is done; or from 'The Foreigner', by Camus, the fixation in the importance of the criminal's "facies" or the fact whether one does or does not cry in front of death.

The lawful state bases itself on evidence, beyond doubt. The notion that innocence prevails over guilt – when there is no evidence to the contrary – is what separates civilization from barbarism.

Unfortunately, there are remains of barbarism among us. Until very recently, it headed the PJ in Portimão. I hope he was the last one.

As you can see, this is dated 2008.  Both these articles show up some of the antis who support Amaral in quite a bad light, do they not?

Two excellent articles there, Sykes.

Rachel Granada wrote:Two excellent articles there, Sykes.

Indeed, Rachel, and just imagine how much dosh the carpet replacers are going to make when the numpties read that first one.