'Suspect/Sighting of the Day': A list of known suspects in the Madeleine McCann case

Maddie double who cried 'help me'

Canadian broadcasters were stunned when distressed callers phoned in claiming they had accidentally filmed the youngster the world had been searching for.

A blonde girl was shown singing during CBC’s Newsworld programme the day after the second anniversary of Maddie’s disappearance.

She looked just like an image FBI artists had produced of how the missing child would look, aged six.

TV bosses cut the clip from later bulletins on 4 May, 2009, after shocked viewers called police.

Detectives seized the footage and filed it among 2,000 pages of evidence, which have been archived since the case was shelved by Portugual’s law chiefs in July 2008.

The DVD, gathering dust on a police HQ shelf, was unveiled this week after the Daily Star made an application to the state prosecutor. Police did not trace the girl, one of thousands of schoolkids taking part in Canada’s nationwide synchronised singathon. Immediately after the event was broadcast a woman from Toronto, convinced it was Maddie, phoned in “very upset and crying’’.

Madeleine, who disappeared from a Portuguese holiday apartment on May 3, 2007 – days short of her fourth birthday – would have been nearly six. Her doctor parents Kate and Gerry, both 41, had just released a new image (pictured above) showing how she would have looked. It is one of hundreds of ignored leads since police gave up.

Another was a Norwegian holidaymaker claiming he saw Madeleine begging for help at the Landzeit Hotel in St Valentin, Austria, three months after her disappearance.

The man and his wife were dining when a young girl on the arm of a man walked past their table and said: “Help me!’’

Police checked the hotel’s database but had no joy.

Yesterday we revealed the McCanns’ private investigators are probing the possibility she was held in an orange grove shack by “gipsy’’ child-snatchers in Silves, 30 miles from Praia Da Luz, Algarve. But a cleaner and teacher deny any involvement.

The case files reveal detectives ignored UK police warnings about a suspicious British worker, in his 30s, at a sister resort to the Ocean Club, where Madeleine disappeared.

They urged them to investigate after a holidaymaker accused him of inappropriate sexual behaviour after going into their nine-year-old daughter’s room. Last night New Zealand police said they had traced the Maddie lookalike caught on a Dunedin supermarket’s CCTV in 2007. Insp Dave Campbell ruled out any link.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/124974/MADDIE-SEEN-ALIVE-ON-TV

'Can we go back now?': Plea by Madeleine lookalike in Brussels bank just one week ago

A British girl who looked like Madeleine McCann was spotted in Belgium a week ago, begging the woman with her: 'Can we go back now?'.
The blonde, blue-eyed girl was overheard making the plea in English by a security guard in a KBC bank in Brussels.
He was so convinced she was Madeleine after spotting the pair on CCTV footage last Monday that he ran out of the bank after they left.
Police are now trawling through the tapes in the hope of finding any clues and a copy has been passed to Kate and Gerry McCann's private detective team.
They show the pair walking along the quiet streets of Brussels towards a canal. At one point, the girl wriggles away and pulls at the woman's hand with both of hers.
The security guard, who has not been named, did not believe the woman with the girl was her mother because they did not look alike.
She was dark-skinned, apparently North African or Arabic, and wearing a hijab head-dress and spoke in a different language.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043499/Can--Plea-Madeleine-lookalike-Brussels-bank-just-week-ago.html

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MARINA DUGANDZIC (39) and MONIKA PANDZA Year 2007

November 14,2007                
       

A WITNESS came forward last night to accuse Bosnian police of lying over a suspected sighting of Madeleine McCann near a famous Catholic shrine.

An unnamed Northern Irish pilgrim claimed he had seen a blonde girl being pushed into a car against her will in Medjugorje near Mostar.


He said she was with a swarthy, foreign-speaking couple. Yet, as the man tried to silence her, she yelled in an English accent: “I want my Daddy”.


He said he reported his suspicions to local police 12 days ago, but they are still denying it.


Last night local shop assistant Marina Dugandzic, 39, backed up the Irishman’s story.

She said a tourist came into her shop and was very animated, asking if any English-speaking locals could help him because he was having difficulty getting police to understand him.


She said: “He did not mention the name of Maddie McCann or tell us his name.


“However, he said that he had seen someone pushing a little girl into a black VW Golf with Bosnian number plates.


“Our colleague Monika Pandza, an English language professor, translated his words.”


She said the father of six, from Fermanagh, even gave police the number plate for the car the couple sped off in.


He had told her: “I was about to speak to the child when the man put his hand over her mouth and shoved her into the car.”


But Bosnian police still deny receiving the tip-off.


Spokesman Mario Bosnjak said last night: “Every single policeman in Medjugorje has denied receiving any kind of a report regarding the British girl.


“It is possible he spoke to a customs official or a security guard. They have similar uniforms.”

http://traditionalcatholics.forumchitchat.com/post?id=2296963&goto=nextnewest

http://sosmaddie.blogs.dhnet.be/archive/2008/03/17/faux-signalement-de-maddie-a-sydney.html

Maddie spotted in Australia.

Hannie Wiechmann, 71, said she saw a girl resembling Madeleine in the Dutch capital

Email warning that Madeleine was 'stolen' by Belgian paedophile ring took six weeks to reach Portuguese police

An e-mail from British police warning that Madeleine McCann could have been abducted by a Belgian paedophile ring took six weeks to reach detectives in Portugal, it emerged today.
The Metropolitan Police in London received a tip-off 10 months after Madeleine vanished that she had been stolen to order after a 'spotter' saw her on holiday in the Algarve and sent her photograph to the gang's leaders.
Details of the confidential e-mail were revealed in the secret police files made public this week.
But the documents contain no explanation as to why the message sent on March 5 this year by the Met's vice intelligence unit to Leicestershire police, who were co-ordinating the British end of the investigation, was only passed on to officers in Portugal on April 21.
Inspector Ricardo Paiva, one of the detectives working on the case, then sent it to Lisbon Interpol a week later asking them to investigate the claim as a matter of urgency.
More than a month later, Interpol replied that some of the information gathered from around Europe was not credible.
On May 27, Lisbon Interpol sent a further urgent message requesting information but received an undated fax claiming there was nothing to add.
The revelation of a possible link to Belgium – the scene of several notorious child sex cases - came as a second woman claimed to have seen the missing girl in neighbouring Holland.
Another sighting, in Belgium itself just 12 days after Madeleine vanished, was also revealed today.
Earlier this week it was revealed that Amsterdam shop worker Anna Stam told police within days of Madeleine's disappearance in May last year that she thought she had seen her.
The report was passed to Portugal, but never followed up. Yesterday Hannie Wiechmann, 71, said she saw a girl resembling Madeleine in the Dutch capital at around the same time.
She said the child's hair had been badly cut and partially dyed red. She was with a woman who was pacing up and down beside a canal.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041818/Email-warning-Madeleine-stolen-Belgian-paedophile-ring-took-weeks-reach-Portuguese-police.html

Tea Dedic, three, was found by detectives after the Daily Mail provided them with the number plate of the car she was apparently seen being bundled into.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493928/First-picture-year-old-Bosnian-girl-mistaken-missing-Madeleine.html

ANONYMOUS IRISH WITNESS - TEA DENIC (3) year 2007
On 10th November it was reported that an Irishman on a pilgrimage to the "miracle" town of Medjugorje in Bosnia had been in contact with Metodo 3 to tell them he heard a little girl cry, "I want my daddy" as she was driven away by a man and a woman. The witness reported seeing the girl struggling with the couple and felt there was something wrong. The father of six, asked to remain anonymous. He wrote down the registration of the couple's car, a VW Golf, and alerted local police but claims his sighting was not followed up. The witness, from Fermanagh, was on holiday in the Bosnia-Herzegovina town with his wife and two-year-old at the beginning of November. Bosnia police identified the child as Tea Dedic, who lives in the city of Ljubuski with her parents. Her father Alen Dedic explained that the car was traced back to his father Slavko Dedic who lent it to him so that the family could go to pray with his family at Medjugorje. Alen Dedic said: "I am sorry that the family had to go through this but my daughter is nothing to do with the case. "She is three-and-a-half years old and is very hyperactive and was a bit out of control when we were in Medjugorje.
"I really had to push her into the car when we went to pray.
"To be honest I had seen that people leaving the church were staring at her behaving badly and I was very embarrassed, I just wanted to get out of there. I did not dream I would create such a fuss."

THIS is the face of the girl they thought was Madeleine McCann, or Maddie, as the Mail’s front page rebrands the missing girl.

By way of a compare and contrast, the Express has its quotidian picture of Madeleine McCann on the front page. (Although it is expected to shift on the tenth anniversary of the Bouquet Revolution when Diana died, Elton sang and Britain’s top lip became soaked in tears and emotion.)

It is clear in an instant that Madeleine looks a bit like the Mail’s girl. But this new girl has a mole on her face, her eyes are dark brown and not marked by a dropping iris, her hair is blonder and her lips fuller.

And her name is not Madeleine McCann. Her name is Sjanneke Hofstede. She was the girl spotted by the child therapist who told the police and then posed for pictures in the Express. She was 100% sure Sjanneke was Madeleine.

The therapist wishes she’d have done more. Had only this expert walked over and seized the child she would have been the saviour. She would have been the child therapist who not only talked but did. She would have been the recipient of a massive reward. The therapist would have been wrestled to the ground by Sjanneke’s father, with whom she was having lunch, while his girlfriend, also present, dialled the authorities.

The Express makes no mention of this development. Doubtless it is still awaiting the results of DNA tests on the straw Sjanneke used to drink a strawberry milkshake before publishing the news. It will not jump to conclusions.

The Express focuses on the investigation. The Mail does hear “Portugal’s top policeman” Alipio Ribeiro answer critics that he has not deployed enough manpower to find the missing child. Says he: “I have always said that Poirot acted alone and was effective. This is not about numbers. Currently, it is not even about resources.”

We have always said that Poirot was Belgian, too overweight and a work of fiction. But we concede that if Ribeiro is to model himself on any crime fighter, better Poitot than, say, Spiderman or PC Plum from Balamory. Or Cracker.

But there is something of Lieutenant Columbo about Ribeiro’s investigation. He is waiting or the assumed kidnapper to slip up. He has a sense of who the criminal is, and then hounds them, all the time gathering evidence.

“Just one more thing…” says the Express. “MADELEINE – British suspect to be arrested in hours say police.”

Why let the papers know this unless the police want their man to make his move?

And this suspect is British. A Briton has been monitored for several weeks. Minds turn to Robert Murat, who, like Columbo, has a bad eye.

But before the denouement, the Express gathers all around. We are back to Poirot as it revisits the evidence and recaps the story so far. And then it revels all.

But not yet. Soon. Stay tuned…

http://www.anorak.co.uk/176048/madeleine-mccann/madeleine-mccann-is-sjanneke-hofstede-and-ribeiro-is-columbo.html/

Potential sightings of the British three-year old total 8,685 across 101 countries and territories, a Freedom of Information request for the figures showed.

Many of the sightings were collated by Portuguese cops and stamped “NFA” – No Further Action – as they believed the youngster was dead, compounding the despair of parents Kate and Gerry.

Since May 2011 the Met police has collated reported sightings under Operation Grange.
Where have the 'sightings' of Maddie been?

1. ALGERIA: October 2008: A man reported he had seen a blonde girl with a British accent, who looked liked Madeleine, with a dark-skinned Algerian family who were “acting suspiciously”.

2. ANDORRA: Details not made public.

3. ARGENTINA: June 19, 2007: A man took a photo of a girl “identical” to Madeleine. Sighting later ruled out.

4. AUSTRALIA. July 26, 2015: A suitcase containing the skeletal remains of a fair-haired young girl was discovered next to a motorway in Wynarka, near Adelaide. Pathologists said she would have died in 2007. There was speculation that the body was Madeleine’s after a cop said it did not match descriptions of any missing children in that country. But the victim’s DNA did not match Madeleine’s.

5. AUSTRIA: July 2008: A couple at a hotel in St. Valentin claimed a girl resembling Madeleine cried “Help me!” in English as a man dragged her away.

6. AZORES: Details not made public.

7. BANGLADESH: Details not made public.

8. BELGIUM: May 14, 2007: A British man claimed he saw a child asleep on a train from Brussels to Antwerp and thought she looked drugged. The girl was with a balding, 6ft white man in his forties, who got off the train at Mechelen carrying her. British Police trawled CCTV footage but eventually ruled out the sighting.

9. BELIZE: Details not made public.

10. BOLIVIA: Details not made public.

11. BRAZIL: June 7, 2007: A man spotted Madeleine in an Ipanema cafe sitting with a man. He said she looked “sad” and did not speak to her male companion.
May 11, 2007: A man said he saw Madeleine at a book fair in Cinelandia Square, Rio de Janeiro. She was with a white woman and speaking English.

12. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: Details not made public.

13. BOSNIA: July 8, 2007: A British tourist believed he had seen Madeleine at the Roman Catholic shrine of Medjugorje. He said the little blonde girl he saw with a couple was “agitated and sobbing”. Police investigated and traced the girl, who was a local.

14. BULGARIA: May 26, 2007: Female Brit tourists saw Madeleine in a hotel in Sunny Beach with a man. When the girl took her sunglasses off the man told her to put them back on which she found suspicious. Madeleine had a defect in her right eye.

15. CAMBODIA: June 2014: Police travelled to the Southeast Asian country to quiz convicted paedophile Roderick Robertson about Madeleine.

16. CANADA: May 4, 2009: Distressed viewers inundated a Canadian TV station with calls after a blonde girl identical to Madeleine was shown singing with a choir on a news show. Private investigators studied the footage and ruled it out.

17. CANARY ISLANDS: June 27, 2007: Madeleine spotted in a Chinese restaurant in Playas De Las Americas eating with a “dark-skinned family”.

18. CHILE: Details not made public.

19: CHINA: July 3, 2007: A man spotted a tall, blonde girl who looked like Madeleine at Taipei Airport with two men. They were never traced.

20. COSTA RICA: Details not made public.

21. CROATIA: June 19, 2007: She was seen in Dubrovnik, laying on the floor “kicking and screaming” and yelling: “I’m never going to see them again.”

22. CUBA: Details not made public.

23. CYPRUS: October, 2012: A British couple and three children their flat in Ayia Napa after a neighbour alerted police that a girl with them was 'identical' to Madeleine. The family have never been traced.

24: CZECH REPUBLIC: Details not made public.

25: DENMARK: Details not made public.

26: DUBAI: May 31, 2007: A caller, claiming to be a UK barrister, told Portuguese police that Madeleine had been taken out of Portugal on a ship registered in Holland. The report was ruled out.

27: EGYPT: May 23, 2007: A British woman on a boat trip in Sharm El Sheik saw a blonde girl on another boat screaming at a man. Egyptian authorities investigated and ruled it out.
September 12, 2009: Maddie spotted at a hotel in Hurghada. Not traced.

28. ESTONIA: Details not made public.

29. FIJI: Details not made public.

30. FINLAND: Details not made public.

31. FRANCE: May 26, 2008: Seen in a restaurant in Montpellier by a student who shouted out 'Maddie' at which the girl looked up 'surprised' before a man with her 'bundled' her out.

32. FRENCH POLYNESIA: Details not made public.

33. THE GAMBIA: Details not made public.

34. GERMANY: May 31, 2007: Maddie was spotted in a car park in Offenburg.

35. GIBRALTAR: May 2007: A Brit couple said they saw a woman pushing a girl who looked like Madeleine in a trolley out of Marks & Spencer’s. They said they heard the girl shout: “You’re not my Mummy.” The woman replied: “Of course I am.”

36. GREECE: May 12, 2007: A girl resembling Maddie seen in a watch store in Milos.

May 17, 2007: Madeleine was spotted on an easyJet flight from Athens to London.

May 19, 2007: A girl resembling Maddie spotted in Athens, hitch-hiking with a man.

37. GUATEMALA: Details not made public.

38. HONG KONG: June 14, 2007: A woman said she saw Madeleine in a shopping centre but this was ruled out after police studied CCTV footage.

39. HUNGARY: Details not made public.

40. IBIZA: August 12, 2007: A woman saw a girl who had the same visible eye defect as Madeleine.

41. ICELAND: Details not made public.

42. INDIA: July 28, 2011. A British tourist was so convinced a girl in the northern city of Leh was Madeleine she took a photo of her. When it was shown to Kate and Gerry they said it was not her.

43. INDONESIA: Details not made public.

44. ISRAEL: Details not made public.

45. ITALY: June 17, 2007: A British man said he saw Maddie in Bari, walking along with a “large” lady.

46. JAPAN: Details not made public.

47. JERSEY: May 9, 2007: A woman in a park saw a man and a young blonde girl at the top of the slide. She thought it strange as there was no interaction between them all the time she was there. The man was Portuguese but spoke English. Police investigated but ruled it out.

48. JORDAN: Details not made public.

49. KENYA: July 24, 2007: A man saw a child who looked like Madeleine on an internal flight from KTC Wildlife Safari Park, Kichwa Tembo. She got off at the next stop and was never traced.

50. KOSOVO: Details not made public.

51. LAOS: Details not made public.

52. LATVIA: July 3, 2007: A man said she saw a blonde girl exactly like Madeleine holding a woman’s hand in the capital of Riga. He took a photo of her which was later ruled out.
July 20, 2007: A man spotted Madeleine, again in Riga.

53. LITHUANIA: Details not made public.

54. LUXEMBOURG: Details not made public.

55. MACEDONIA: Details not made public

56. MADAGASCAR: Details not made public

57. MADEIRA: May 16, 2007: Madeleine seen in a black car in Funchal.

58. MALAYSIA: Details not made public

59. MALTA: July 20, 2007: A couple staying in a hotel in St Julian’s saw a girl who looked like Madeleine screaming in the hallway. She was rushed away by a couple after guests came out to see what was going on.

60. MAURITIUS: Details not made public.

61. MEXICO: July, 2007: A man said he heard a little scream 'Help me, help me!' while visiting friends in Mexico City. He said she had blonde hair and spoke English. He flagged down a police car but they did nothing.

62. MONACO: Details not made public.

63. MONTENEGRO: June 15, 2007: Dr. Seamus Hegarty, a child educational specialist, said he saw a girl like Madeleine while at a conference in Budva.

64. MOROCCO: August 2007: In the town of Fnideq, A woman aged around 50 was spotted with a blonde girl who had a mark in her eye like Madeleine’s. The girl also had a dummy around her neck, not something usually seen in Morocco.

August 31, 2007: A British tourist took a snap of a local, dark-skinned woman walking with a young very blonde child tied to her back with a cloth. The little girl looked so like Madeleine even computer face- imaging experts said it was a match to her. British police scrambled to Morocco to find the girl but within hours news came back that it was a girl from a village in Rif mountains.

65. MOZAMBIQUE: May 26, 2007: A man saw Madeleine being driven in a 4x4 in Maputo by a man with no teeth. The witness took the number plate. Police traced the man and it was ruled out.
May 26, 2007. Another caller said he had seen Madeleine with a white man in the capital.

66. NEPAL: Details not made public.

67. NETHERLANDS: May 2007: Amsterdam shop worker Ana Stam, 41, claimed a little girl of three or four who said her name was “Maddie” asked her: “Do you know where my mummy is?”
Then she pointed to the couple she was with and told Ana: “They took me from my holiday.” Ana said the little girl was with a Portuguese man and woman. Ana reported her fears to police but nothing was done.

68. NEW ZEALAND: May 2007.: A girl there bore such a strong resemblence to Madeleine that police had to investigate whether she was her TWICE. After a photo of the girl went viral in March 2012 police interviewed her parents and said they believed she was their daughter.
A few months later police officers requested DNA tests from the girl, which finally ruled her out.

69. NORWAY: September 2007: Madeleine was seen at a cafe in Skarnes. She was with two smartly dressed men.

70. OMAN: Details not made public.

71. PANAMA: Details not made public.

72. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Details not made public.

73. PARAGUAY: May 2016: Officers from Interpol and an anti-kidnapping elite squad went into action when British private eye Miraz Ullah Ali claimed earlier this year he had uncovered evidence Madeleine was being held in Paraguay. He said a woman was looking after her in the city of Aregua. There was a huge search there but nothing was found. He later said he was “mistaken”.

74. PERU: Details not made public

75. PHILIPPINES: Face-imaging computer experts have examined “dozens” of child abuse images beamed from the Philippines to identify if any are Madeleine.

76. POLAND: May 12, 2007. A medical student in Wroclaw saw a taxi with a young girl like Madeleine in it with a “tough looking” man.

77. PORTUGAL: May 23, 2007: A girl seen in Vilamoura had a mark in her eye like Madeleine has.

May 26, 2007. Girl seen being pushed by a man of Muslim appearance in Porto. The caller said when he reported it to Portuguese police they “laughed” at him.

78. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: May 2007: A woman in Dublin told police she had seen a girl who looked like Madeleine getting on a bus with a man at Eden Quay. They got off at the city centre. CCTV images of the girl were studied and the sighting ruled out.

79. ROMANIA: Details not made public.

80. SERBIA: June 2, 2008: A man thought he saw Madeleine in the back of a car in Belgrade.

81. SEYCHELLES: Details not made public.

82. SINGAPORE: June 21, 2007: A woman saw a white couple in a sushi restaurant with a girl who looked like Madeleine.

83. SLOVAKIA: Details not made public.

84. SLOVENIA: Details not made public.

85. SOUTH AFRICA: In June 2007 police driving through Cape Town noticed two black men in a car driving with a young blonde child. When they stopped the vehicle the men grabbed the child and ran off towards Table Mountain. Cops gave chase but lost them. The incident was reported to Leicestershire Police as a possible sighting of Madeleine.

86. SPAIN: There have been numerous sightings of Madeline since she went missing including:
May 25, 2007: girl fitting her description in Puerto Banus in a bar with a woman. The child was wrapped in a blanket and crying.
July 11, 2007: A woman spotted “Madeleine” on a beach near San Pedro with a man of 50 who was rubbing sun lotion on her.

87. SRI LANKA: Details not made public.

88. SWEDEN: October 2009: A photo of a girl at a car show in Stockholm that appeared on a website led to Swedish police being inundated with calls that she was Madeleine. Face-mapping technology used by British police identified the girl as a possible match. Swedish police were unable to trace the girl.

89. SWITZERLAND: May 25, 2007: A family driving near the Gotthard tunnel were hit by an Alfa Romeo. The driver of the Alfa was a male aged between 30 and 40 with a pony tail. He kept getting out and 'nervously' checking the back door was locked. In the back was a small blonde girl wrapped in a towel.

90. SYRIA: Details not made public.

91. THAILAND: Details not made public.

92. TUNISIA: Details not made public.

93. TURKEY: May 25, 2007: A man saw a girl resembling Madeleine in a market in Istanbul with a dark-skinned woman who she was speaking English to.

94. UGANDA: Details not made public.

95. UNITED KINGDOM: February 20, 2008: A retired civil servant reported that a Portuguese couple who knocked on his door in Dorset had a blonde-haired child with them he was sure was Madeleine. The couple were never traced.

96.UKRAINE: Details not made public.

97. USA: July 25, 2007: A man at Disney World in Florida saw a girl on a Disney bus who looked like Madeleine. She was with a man in his mid-50s who treated the girl 'strangely' because he didn't speak to her at all during the journey.

98. URUGUAY: Details not made public.

99. VANUATU: Details not made public.

100. VENEZUELA: May 2008: Brit Trevor Francis said he saw a girl like Madeleine with a blemish in her eye on the Island of Margarita.

101. VIETNAM: July 2007: Madeleine spotted in Vietnam, but the report to police had so few details they were unable to act on it.


According to Eddie and Keela, Madeleine was in Portugal all along - apartment 5a of the Ocean Club to be precise. Madeleine's parents' apartment, to be even more precise.

Shame on 'Britain's finest police force' and Operation Grange, for spending millions of pounds on this farce and even greater shame for allowing innocent young children to be hounded and have their photographs in the world's media.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_sightings_of_Madeleine_McCann

Kate and Gerry's "great hope": Mystery blonde girl found living with gypsies gives boost to Madeleine McCann's parents

Greek authorities requested international help to identify an 'abducted' four-year-old girl found living in a camp with a couple and 13 other children

18th/19th October 2013



The parents of Madeleine McCann were given ‘great hope’ tonight after a mystery blonde girl allegedly snatched from her family was found living with gypsies.

Greek authorities requested international help to identify a four-year-old girl found living in a camp with a couple and 13 other children.

Police believe up to 10 more of the youngsters may be the victims of an international trafficking ring.

The girl, known only as ‘Maria’, was found on Wednesday near Farsala in central Greece during a nationwide crackdown on illegal activities by Roma, also known as Gypsies.

The case bears similarities to theories about the disappearance of Madeleine who vanished aged three on a family holiday in Portugal on May 3, 2007.
It raises the possibility that Madeleine could still be alive six years after she disappeared.

Speaking to The Mirror, a spokesman for the McCanns said: “This gives Kate and Gerry great hope that Madeleine could be found alive.”

Dad Gerry said this week that statistics showed the younger a child is when abducted, the more likely they are to be found.

He said after Monday’s BBC Crimewatch: “There are cases over the last few years of children who have been found after they’ve been taken for a long time. I think that’s what the public needs to think about tonight.”

Scotland Yard said new evidence adds further weight to claims the three-year-old was snatched in a pre-planned abduction from her holiday apartment.
DNA tests confirmed yesterday that the mystery blue eyed girl is not related to the Greek couple who have been remanded in custody.

A 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman have been charged with abducting a minor and remanded in custody.

A source said the youngster is believed to have been with the couple for at least two years and speaks only Roma. She is currently being assessed by child psychologists.

He said: “Police areexamining a wider network of child traffickers across Europe. This girl couple have been snatched to order or sold by east european criminal gangs. We know these networks exist.”

Police are trying to establish why the girl was living with the couple, who are also accused of falsifying identity and birth certificates.

The mother claimed to have given birth to six children within a total of less than 10 months. She is accused of illegally claiming benefits for the children.

Police say they also found drugs and unregistered firearms in other parts of the settlement, which is about 170 miles north of Athens.

One police officer questioned the couple after spotting that the blonde, pale-skinned and blue-eyed girl stood out from the rest of her family.

She bore no resemblance to the Greek couple and DNA testing confirmed that they weren’t related.

Her features suggest she might be from an eastern or northern European country. She speaks only the gypsy language Roma.

Police have notified Interpol for assistance.

Her discovery will also give hope to the parents of British toddler Ben Needham, who vanished on the Greek island of Kos in 1991 and would now be 23. His family, who insist he is still alive, last night called for DNA testing of the other children at the camp.

Larissa police chief Vasilis Halatsis said: “We have taken the gypsy parents into custody, and the child is being taken care of in hospital.

“We are getting information from all over Europe which shows that this problem, of children going missing and falling into gypsy hands, is a problem throughout the continent.”

The suspects allegedly offered conflicting accounts - that the girl was found in a blanket, was handed to them by strangers or had a foreign father.

The police statement said the couple claimed to have a total of 14 children, and had registered different numbers with authorities in three different parts of Greece.

Officers found three children living with them who appear to be their children - although that hasn’t yet been verified by DNA testing.

The woman who posed as the blonde girl's mum yesterday pleaded from her cell: "We didn't harm her. We love her and she loves us... we gave her everything we could, like we do for our other children."

She claimed she was given the youngster two years ago by a Romanian woman to look after as she went shopping and she never came back. Police chief Vasilis Halatsis fears the couple are involved in a lucrative benefits racket.

They claim to have three families, and get handouts of around £6,900 a month. The mum has also been charged with illegally claiming child benefits and falsifying identity cards and birth certificates.

The girl is in the care of the charity The Smile Of A Child, which said it has sought the help of European and global groups for lost or abused children in tracking her parents.

Charity director Costas Giannopoulos said the child was undergoing medical examinations.

“We are shocked by how easy it is for people to register children as their own,” he told private Skai TV. “There is much more to investigate, there are other registered children that were not found in the settlement, and I believe police will unravel a thread that doesn’t just have to do with the girl.”

The name of the gypsy parents has not yet been disclosed, but they are due to appear before the public prosecutor on Monday.

Lawyers for the arrested gypsy couple appealed to the media “not to present this couple as monsters, as abusers of children”.
Marietta Palavra said: “There is nothing but love and care between the Roma parents and the 4-year old girl.”

News of the girl’s alleged abduction comes just a few days after the Metropolitan Police revealed results of a major review of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Among many claims made over the years, convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett allegedly said he saw the Madeleine twice before she vanished and claimed she was stolen to order by a gypsy gang, but denied he was involved.

During a special Crimewatch show earlier this week, detectives issued two e-fits of a man seen carrying Madeleine towards the beach on the night she vanished.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-kate-gerrys-great-2467765

05-05-Apensos V, Vol 5, Pages 1010 and 1011 
Table of Contents : APENSOS V, Volume 5, Supposed Sightings and Locations (FILE 04)....(PDF Pages 82-83)....Pages 1010 to 1011-"Statement re sighting in Medina Market, Agadir, Morocco"

Page 1010 (Page 1 of 2)

Priority 3

Officer's Report

To : SIO
Incident :_OP Task
From : DC1429 DALBY
Subject : A1308
Date : 1st June 2007

Telephone call to Kamran ASIF : Tel : 079128xxxxx

Reports that on the 18th of May 2007 he was in AGADIR, Morocco, at the Medina Market.

He was shopping with his cousins when he and his cousin, Aahkat ALI, went to have a drink in a cafe.

He was at the cafe, with no obstruction to his view and became aware of a blonde child walking with a male of Asian appearance.

The child was approximately 10 - 12 feet away from him and continued to walk past the witness until they went out of sight as the result of the busy nature of the market.

He states that it was very good visibility as it was approximately 2.00 p.m. in the afternoon and was
45 degrees.

He saw the child face-on as they walked towards him before walking off to the side, the male was walking at the righthand side of the girl.

He described the girl as looking unhappy and that the male held the child in a firm grip by the hand.

He saw the couple for about 10-15 seconds.

He described the girl as having bright blonde hair and described it as when the sun shines on a child's hair, with length down to her shoulders, perhaps a little longer.


(Note : Here, is a handwritten entry of 7 lines, in the Portuguese Language, dated 1st June 2007, which refers to a sighting in 'Agadir, Morocco'. This entry has overwritten part of this report)


Page 1011 (Page 2 of 2)

Report continues thus :

Leicestershire Constabulary

The male was in his mid 30's and of medium build.

When he saw the child he believed that he recognized the girl but could not recall where he knew her face from.

It was while they were on the bus back to their apartment that he remembered where he had seen the face before and that it was Madeleine McCann.

FAX sent to West Yorkshire Police requesting witness statement as soon as possible.

aquila wrote:Thank you Jill (and Verdi's contribution) for posting this list.

Thank you for the idea

Verdi wrote:
From : Mark Pettigrew Paris Consular - UBS
Sent : 20th June 2007 16.41
To : Glyn Cartmell * RABAT -UBS
Cc : Gail Sidnell ; Jeffrey Thomas * Paris Consular - UBS ; Lee Theisinger ; Sharon Boyle
Subject : FW : Madeleine McCann

We received an E-mail on our Consular E-mail regarding Madeleine McCann.
The sender, Gabrielle Texier, claims friends of hers know where Madeleine is.


Page 1067 (Page 2 of 2)

Mark called her. She did not sound incoherent, but was upset. When she answered, the first thing she said was that our response had been very quick, as she had only just received an E-mail from Morocco confirming that her friends knew where Madeleine was. Mark asked her which friends and why she was in Morocco. She explained she works for an American Fruit-Juice Company and spends several months a year there.

She claims her friends saw Madeleine on the 19th of May, with a man who was holding her hand very tightly. Mark asked if they had been in contact with the Police or the British Embassy there. She said she had tried to send an E-mail to the McCann's, but to no avail. Her friends had then lost trace of Madeleine, but apparently have located her in a mansion in the Massira area. They called her late last night to inform her of this.

Mark asked who her friends are exactly. She said they work in an Estate Agents in the Menara area of Marrakesh (00212620xxxxx but did not seem to be working). Mark asked if she could forward the E-mail. She was having some problems with her computer therefore Mark offered to call her back.

Ten minutes later, he called her back. Mrs Texier gave us another contact number : Aziz : 00212624xxxxx. She said Aziz had been watching the house for the last few days and is convinced he has seen Madeleine there, but is scared to go to the POlice as the Director of the Estate Agency (who lives in Casablanca) had already tried to alert the Authorities, in vain. He is expecting a call from the Embassy.

Hi Verdi,so the press,MSM have all of these reported sightings of a"Proposed Madeleine McCann"?
Looks as though Operation Grange will require a few more tranches of funds,to eliminate all these suspected sightings?
Let us hope they take finger prints,DNA from all these persons,as they requested from the four bungling Portugal burglars,aka DCI Andy Redwood,Hamish Campbell,Jill Dando,Unsolved murder suspect Barry George,being framed?

Did all of these people,sightings from around the world pay someone to Abduct the person they have Photographs of from Portugal?
Where all of these children in Portugal at the time of Madeleine's disappearance?
It's all Bull *hit,Ask Mark Rowley about the 17 Dog alerts to clothing and other video evidence,if he refuses to answer,keep asking them why they refuse to consider the alerts,as facts?

Maddie kidnapped to order for wealthy buyer in the Middle East says ex-cop

MADELEINE McCann may have been kidnapped-to-order for a wealthy buyer, an ex-Scotland Yard detective claims.

An ex-cop has called the region “an obvious route” for kidnappers based in Mauritania, West Africa.

Colin Sutton, formerly of the Met Police, told the Mirror: "The Mauritania line is certainly a possibility and needs to be looked at.

"If someone wanted to get a three-year-old child into Africa it’s the obvious route. The infrastructure and contacts for people smuggling are clearly there."

In June 2007, spooks at GCHQ intercepted messages in Arabic referring to "the little blonde girl" and a ferry crossing from Tarifa in Spain.

The port is just a few hours’ drive from Praia Da Luz, where Maddie disappeared a month earlier, and has regular services to Morocco.

A 2015 report from the US State Department warned that Mauritania, which borders Morocco, was a hotbed for people trafficking.

It said: "Mauritania is a source country for women, men and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking.

"Women and girls are subjected to sex trafficking in the country or the Middle East," the report added.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/608296/madeleine-mccann-maddie-sightings-africa-morocco-mauritania-people-trafficking-smuggling

Has Colin commented on the woof woofs yet?

Not that I've seen plebbers.

Get'emGonçalo wrote:Not that I've seen plebbers.

Thanks GEG.    I will open my ears to his "witterings" when he does.

Sorry Col.   I was willing to give you a chance but until you make a comment about the dogs my ears are closed.

aquila wrote:

plebgate wrote:Has Colin commented on the woof woofs yet?

Plebs, Colin is on the REALLY channel found on UKTV shown in ad breaks posing looking downwards with his arms crossed.

Colin posed for that photograph.

There was some programme a couple of nights ago about two ex EastEnders actresses who were murdered . I was half watching then suddenly up popped our Colin giving his views as usual . 

I can't remember what he said , I was too busy thinking here he goes again boosting his pension Again !!! 

These retired ex detectives ( Peter Mac excluded of course ) love a bit of limelight don't they 

sandancer wrote:

aquila wrote:

plebgate wrote:Has Colin commented on the woof woofs yet?

Plebs, Colin is on the REALLY channel found on UKTV shown in ad breaks posing looking downwards with his arms crossed.

Colin posed for that photograph.

There was some programme a couple of nights ago about two ex EastEnders actresses who were murdered . I was half watching then suddenly up popped our Colin giving his views as usual . 

I can't remember what he said , I was too busy thinking here he goes again boosting his pension Again !!! 

These retired ex detectives ( Peter Mac excluded of course ) love a bit of limelight don't they 

Colin would have been saying that cuts to Police budgets may have caused delays in the investigation.

The force has referred its handling of the case to the watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), amid questions over why it took so long to escalate the missing persons inquiry into the performer's disappearance

He told the Times: "There is greater pressure than ever not to waste money that may have influenced the decision making"

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14188225.Costs__may_have_played_role_in_delays__in_ex_Eastenders_star_Sian_Blake_police_probe/

Of course, Police budget cuts don't apply in the McCann case.

05-05-Apensos V, Vol 5, Pages 1118-1120
Pages 168-171 )....Pages 1118 to 1120-"Letter sent to Kate and Gerry re psychic vision of Cok Vanderlee, Netherlands"
Page 1118 (Page 1 of 3 )

(Note : This page contains only a sketch of a man's face and shoulders, drawn by Cok Vanderlee, and signed 'Cok Vanderlee' and dated 6th June 2007, as an accompaniment to the letter sent to Gerald and Kate McCann/Portuguese Police)


Page 1119 (Page 2 of 3 )

(Note : This is a handwritten letter by Cok Vanderlee, and some parts of it have been difficult to decipher)

Dear Kate, Gerry and the Portuguese Police,

My name is Cok Vanderlee. I live in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Beside my work as an Antiques Dealer, I am what people call a medium/clairvoyant/angel-communicator.
About 4 weeks ago my eldest brother, Louis, called me and asked me if I heard about the Kidnapping of Madeleine. He spoke to...(name illegible)..who is a friend of...(name illegible)..and Arnond (friends of Kate and Gerry, Heemstede, The Netherlands). (Name illegible)...came to my shop in Haarlem and asked me to help in the situation. I...(?told)...her to do my best and the past 3 weeks I gave her several pieces of information including my first drawing which Arnond would send to you. The face of the man I have it in my head fro 4 weeks now but could not draw it perfectly until 1 and a half weeks ago. They saw the drawing and got a little scared and sceptical because it could be a relative/aquaintance of you. I understand that...(name illegible)..and Arnond don't want to get in the position negatively. Yesterday I get the face in my head very clearly and put him on paper again with more details and without the hair. I did it without the example of my last drawing. When I compare it I see the same person as I drew last week so I feel very strong about the identity of the Kidnapper and the drawing ! Together with this second drawing I send you a list with a compilation of the information I get from the Angels above.
If you have questions, or want to talk, call me anytime. I hope and pray it will help to find Madeleine as soon as possible.
With much love and many prayers,

Cok Vanderlee
Duvenvoordestraat xx - xx
xxxx AB
Haarlem
The Netherlands
Tel : 0031(0)6220xxxxx - 0031(0)6105xxxxx



Page 1120 (Page 3 of 3 )

(Note : This is a further handwritten statement by Cok Vanderlee, and some parts of it have been difficult to decipher)

- The man, about 38 years old is known in the environment.
- Has big fear in his eyes because is scared to get caught.
- He took Madeleine in a blanket away from the apartment.
- Has 2 Nationalities, could also be a part English.
- He has problems in his lower stumic(sic) (?stomach?), where he uses medicines for.
- He got very scared because of the fast and big media...(?alert?).... .
- He has driven a car in Portugal what looks like a 4x4 Toyota Land Cruiser.
- He had just made new friends last year in the environment.
- I had a dream that he was helped by a small woman with a "French haircut", slightly brown/red who I saw in that dream on a Garden party which is held last half to 1 year. She has a problem/ scars on her right arm. A good friend of mine had the same dream a week later and did not know that I was concentrating on the case !!
- I see a room with a metal bed and boy toys, such as cars, not for girls.
- The room, with the old metal bed is also been seen by my friend, David, in his dream.
- I see a house, (English), where a man works outside (the cleaning or painting the window). He has the same posture as the man on the drawing.
- The room, with the bed is like a 'souterrain', a cellar like room, boarded to the east-side part of a garden.

"A list of known suspects in the Madeleine McCann case"


"Anyone can post a picture of a suspect with a description or press release etc."

Tavares de Almeida wrote:
The conclusion of the Intercalary police report (translated from the original Portuguese by 'Astro'):


    "From everything that is exposed, the process files result in the following:

    A) The minor Madeleine McCann died in apartment 5A at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, on the night of the 3rd of May 2007;

    B) A simulation of an abduction took place;

    C) In order to render the child's death impossible before 22h00, a situation of checking of the McCann couple’s children while they slept was made up;

    D) Kate McCann and Gerald McCann are involved in the concealment of the cadaver of their daughter, Madeleine McCann;

    E) At this moment, there seem to be no strong indications that the child's death was not the result of a tragic accident, yet;

    F) From what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, doesn't want to deliver the cadaver immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility that it was moved from the initial place of deposition. This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place.

    ***


    Chief Inspector

    (Tavares de Almeida)"

The Main Suspects --"searching" -- for their "missing" daughter: 

   

Abracadaver wrote:"A list of known suspects in the Madeleine McCann case"


"Anyone can post a picture of a suspect with a description or press release etc."

Tavares de Almeida wrote:
The conclusion of the Intercalary police report (translated from the original Portuguese by 'Astro'):


    "From everything that is exposed, the process files result in the following:

    A) The minor Madeleine McCann died in apartment 5A at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, on the night of the 3rd of May 2007;

    B) A simulation of an abduction took place;

    C) In order to render the child's death impossible before 22h00, a situation of checking of the McCann couple’s children while they slept was made up;

    D) Kate McCann and Gerald McCann are involved in the concealment of the cadaver of their daughter, Madeleine McCann;

    E) At this moment, there seem to be no strong indications that the child's death was not the result of a tragic accident, yet;

    F) From what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, doesn't want to deliver the cadaver immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility that it was moved from the initial place of deposition. This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place.

    ***


    Chief Inspector

    (Tavares de Almeida)"

The Main Suspects --"searching" -- for their "missing" daughter: 

   

Are those the infamous,"cadaver"trousers that Kate is wearing hold Gerry's Arm?

They are.

She wore them a lot.

I wonder if she washed them as much as she washed Cuddlecat?