‘Please help Luz’ plea as Madeleine circus descends on village again - Portugal Resident

tigger wrote:The trail of destruction the McCanns leave in their wake seems unending.

My very best wishes to Luz residents, I can only imagine what it must be like to have these constant invasions of the press.

Next time a resident is asked about creepy characters I'd advise them to answer that  nobody as creepy and unsavoury as the journalists has ever been spotted.  

  

mowgli wrote:I feel for you.It is a disgrace that PDL is being painted in this way. Surely someone will put an end to these falsehoods.

PeterMac wrote:

mowgli wrote:I feel for you.It is a disgrace that PDL is being painted in this way. Surely someone will put an end to these falsehoods.

DCI Redwood has it in his power to stop the charade.
The McCanns can NEVER allow it to stop

Cristobell wrote:

PeterMac wrote:

mowgli wrote:I feel for you.It is a disgrace that PDL is being painted in this way. Surely someone will put an end to these falsehoods.

DCI Redwood has it in his power to stop the charade.
The McCanns can NEVER allow it to stop

DCI Redwood really does need to call time on this whole shebang as SY are being made to look very foolish indeed by the former arquidoes.  For over 3 years they have been reviewing/investigating this case without any sign whatsoever of the McCanns' mysterious abductor and plenty of evidence to show that Madeleine died in the apartment.  The first 'lowly' Portuguese police who arrived at the scene knew that it was a staged abduction, and as you said in another post Peter, even a cursory glance at the facts makes it clear that an abduction simply wasn't possible in the circumstances described by the McCannns and their friends.  SY haven't stormed in and cleared up the mess left by the PJ as we were led to believe, 3 years on, it appears they are still chasing the same absurd theories put forward by the former suspects who have controlled and directed the media and police investigations into the disappearance of their daughter from day 1.  Someone really needs to have the political courage to tell the McCanns their time is up.

I really do feel for the people of PDL, the village has been accused of harbouring criminals who worked at the Ocean Club and perverts of every persuasion in their midst.  On the plus side, 7 years on with no sign of an abductor, I doubt anyone outside of TM believes the McCanns anymore and the people of the Village, like Goncalo Amaral, will be completely exonerated.

Cristobell wrote:. . . I doubt anyone outside of TM believes the McCanns anymore . . .

Doug D wrote:‘Please help Luz’ plea as Madeleine circus descends on village again

By NATASHA DONN
 news@algarveresident.com

‘As British television networks once again descend on Praia da Luz in the run-up to the seventh anniversary since Madeleine McCann went missing, a local resident has come out fighting.

“It’s time to turn things round,” she told us. “Every year it is the same … British journalists arrive and dredge up more nonsense about Luz. We are meant to be overrun with child molesters, burglars, homosexuals, Eastern European child-snatchers ... Whatever next? Will it be the Taliban?

“They are back again now and this time they have interviewed a homeless person and a ‘prophet’,” the long-term resident told us on Saturday. “They have paid for these interviews. Now, they are apparently looking for a well-known gay man.

“These are the stories the British newspapers are looking for! They are not interested in the views of the real people of Luz - all of whom are fed up to the back teeth with the village being shown in such a bad light.”
The "homeless person" - a "perfectly pleasant man, but never sober" - is not a representational figure of local residents, explained the woman, and the “prophet” is someone who wears a turban and “walks around with a pole with a light on the top of it”.

"Neither can be considered typical Luz residents, but nor are they in any way threats to the community," she added.
The expat woman, who asked not to be named as she has “no wish to be a hero”, said: "It is time Luz had a voice."

“Last year, when the news people were asking questions as they do every year, I went up to the interviewer and said I would like to say a word or two.
“I said I wanted to know why they weren’t interviewing the McCanns for gross negligence that had led to a fatal result. He just dropped me because they don’t want to hear anything like that. They only want to report about people they can label as "weirdos".

“Quite honestly, I feel it is time Luz turned round and sued the McCanns for slander.

“I would like to stand as a voice for Luz. Who will want to come here after all the negative publicity? The British newspapers paint the village as one full of terrible people. This is grotesquely unfair. It has got to stop!”
As is so often the case, concern over speaking out has left this voice of Luz for now unnamed. She told us “everyone feels the same” - and behind the scenes few would disagree.

A high-ranking staff member at Luz Ocean Club told the Resident earlier this year: “Luz has taken such a battering over the last seven years. It really is time to do something for this community - help it rally round.” But, like the anonymous "voice of Luz", the man asked not to be identified.

Meantime, the Ocean Club is one of the prime movers behind a community triathlon event planned later this month precisely to promote the picturesque village “before the holiday season gets underway”.

For more information see www.algarvetriathlons.com’

http://portugalresident.com/‘please-help-luz’-plea-as-madeleine-“circus”-descends-on-village-again

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So we've got 'The Prophet', The 'well known gay man' & 'The Homeless Person' to look forward to!

ultimaThule wrote:
Could it be the McCanns have reverted to atheism as their pact with the devils has failed to deliver all they wished for?

Earth, gape! O no, it will not harbor me.
You stars that reigned at my nativity,
Whose influence hath allotted death and hell,
Now draw up Gerry like a foggy mist
Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud,
That when you vomit forth into the air
My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths,
So that my soul may but ascend to heaven.
. . .
O God, if thou wilt not have mercy on my soul,
. . .
Let Gerry live in hell a thousand years,
A hundred thousand, and at last be saved.
. . .
Cursed be the parents that engendered me:
No, Gerry, curse thy self, curse Lucifer,
That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
. . .
My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!
. . .
Ugly hell gape not! Come not, Lucifer!
I’ll burn my books—ah, Mephistophilis!

columbostogeys wrote:

The McCanns have ruined their village. Who would want to go there or buy an apartment or even holiday there, with all this stuff in the press. Its nearly every day.

IF I was the residents I would get together and think about suing the McCanns because of their neglectful behaviour, it has bought a bad light to their lovely quiet village.

columbostogeys wrote:

Cristobell wrote:

PeterMac wrote:

mowgli wrote:I feel for you.It is a disgrace that PDL is being painted in this way. Surely someone will put an end to these falsehoods.

DCI Redwood has it in his power to stop the charade.
The McCanns can NEVER allow it to stop

DCI Redwood really does need to call time on this whole shebang as SY are being made to look very foolish indeed by the former arquidoes.  For over 3 years they have been reviewing/investigating this case without any sign whatsoever of the McCanns' mysterious abductor and plenty of evidence to show that Madeleine died in the apartment.  The first 'lowly' Portuguese police who arrived at the scene knew that it was a staged abduction, and as you said in another post Peter, even a cursory glance at the facts makes it clear that an abduction simply wasn't possible in the circumstances described by the McCannns and their friends.  SY haven't stormed in and cleared up the mess left by the PJ as we were led to believe, 3 years on, it appears they are still chasing the same absurd theories put forward by the former suspects who have controlled and directed the media and police investigations into the disappearance of their daughter from day 1.  Someone really needs to have the political courage to tell the McCanns their time is up.

I really do feel for the people of PDL, the village has been accused of harbouring criminals who worked at the Ocean Club and perverts of every persuasion in their midst.  On the plus side, 7 years on with no sign of an abductor, I doubt anyone outside of TM believes the McCanns anymore and the people of the Village, like Goncalo Amaral, will be completely exonerated.

The McCanns have ruined their village. Who would want to go there or buy an apartment or even holiday there, with all this stuff in the press. Its nearly every day.

IF I was the residents I would get together and think about suing the McCanns because of their neglectful behaviour, it has bought a bad light to their lovely quiet village.