PJ officers were surprised by Gerry’s relaxed attitude, sucking on a lollipop and discussing football whilst the officers were anxious about Madeleine’s whereabouts.

Gerry laughed during the drama at the PJ - Correio da Manhã
by astro 13 years ago
Extortion – PJ solved two attempts of fraud against the McCanns

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The PJ successfully solved the two attempts to extort money from the McCann couple in return for information about their missing daughter. But Maddie’s father’s laughs during the negotiations caused strangeness.

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The ambience in the room was heavy, when on the 14th of June 2007, contact was established with a stranger in Holland, who seemed to shed a light on the darkness that the investigation was in, a month after the disappearance.

Against the nervousness of the Portuguese and the English policemen, Gerry McCann’s attitude surprised everyone in the room, the former coordinator of the process, Gonçalo Amaral, later recollected.

In a careless manner, Maddie’s father “made a contrast with the anxiety of the policemen and intrigued the investigators. Gerry “sucked on a lollipop in a relaxed manner while he read banalities on the internet and discussed rugby and football with an English policeman”, the former coordinator from the Polícia Judiciária wrote in the book’Truth of the Lie’.

The Dutch police would eventually discover that the Dutchman from Eindhoven, who used a cybercafé to demand two million euros per email, knew nothing about Maddie’s whereabouts.

In late June 2007, the McCann couple would suffer another extortion attempt, with the promise of information about their daughter, made by a couple in South Spain.

The intervention of the PJ with the Spanish authorities demonstrated that Italian Danilo Chemello and Portuguese Aurora Pereira Vaz, who claimed four million euros, didn’t know anything about Maddie McCann, either.

The coordination between the Judiciária and the police forces of Spain and Holland led to the detention of the individuals, who wanted to extort six million euros from the McCanns.

With the solving of both frauds, the Polícia Judiciária reinforced the thesis that the child had suffered a deadly accident in the Ocean Club holiday apartment.

Profession explains coldness

The coldness that Gerry McCann always demonstrated during the process of his daughter’s disappearance was noted both by the Portuguese and the British investigators. Gonçalo Amaral, the former operational coordinator of the investigations into the ‘Maddie case’ recalls that one of the English policemen used to say: “Don’t forget that he is a cardio surgeon and starts opening people up right after breakfast.” The ‘cold’ expressions of the McCanns also surprised the public opinion. But despite the fact that Maddie’s mother was never seen crying in public, the investigator stated that “Kate cried several times” for Maddie.

Ransom

Arrested in Holland – On the 4th of July 2007, the Dutch police arrested the 39-year-old man who tried to extort two million euros from the McCanns.

Detained in Spain – On the 28th of June 2007, the Spanish police arrested the Italian and the Portuguese who tried to deceive the McCann couple.

The Dutch connection again.
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Did the 39 year old have any connection with the Vrije University Amsterdam? Was he or  AMSTERDAMVU@gmail.com connected with the University in any way?

Where Gerry studied MRI Cardiology and it has an IVF Center.

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Would it have been possible that the above mentioned hot lead that turned out to be nothing, was generated to spare those poor Parents being asked any more pointed questions from German members of the Press?

06/07 Jun 2007
Gerrys blogs.

Kate and Gerry arrive in Amsterdam 3 hours late, missing 2 TV programmes due to the anonymous call that turned out to be 'nothing of interest', according to Gerry.   They do manage to find time to catch up briefly with a few old friends from the time they spent in Amsterdam.
[color:fa48=000000]07 June 2007	Series of press conference's, meetings and appeals on TV in Amsterdam.   After the scheduled meetings, Gerry catches up with 'a friend of mine who was attending a medical conference in Amsterdam'.    Kate and Gerry return to Praia da Luz in the early evening in time to see the twins.   They later drive to Lagos to attend a musical concert in aid of Madeleiene.