VIDEO: McCanns DIDN'T SEARCH! Tapas Cook breaks SILENCE! (TRANSLATED)

by **HiDeHo** 14.04.13 14:05

McCanns DIDN'T SEARCH! Tapas Cook breaks SILENCE! (TRANSLATED)

Many thanks to Joana Morais for translation.
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'All the Tapas employees working that night were sacked from the Ocean Club. The former cook from the Tapas Bar gives her story about what happened on that night. The McCanns never left the apartment after the alarm was raised. All the police, locals, and employees from the Tapas bar and Ocean Club never saw the Parents searching for their own daughter. More than 200 employees were interviewed by the PJ.'
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PLEASE NOTE: Manuela claims to have seen Madeleine at the creche next to the Tapas Bar. Madeleine's creche was 5-10 minutes away above the Main Reception. Manuela may have been mistaken about which child she saw.

by happychick 14.04.13 16:21

This is dated May 2008. Hardly latest news

by aiyoyo 14.04.13 17:59

The pertinent point is: what was the reason given to them when they were sacked.

It;s practically unheard of that any organisation would deploy staff or sack them en mass because of an unfortunate incident that had nothing to do with them, so it would be interesting to know who in particular was behind that decision.

by worriedmum 14.04.13 18:15

I don't suppose Madeleine's disappearance was good for trade...

by **HiDeHo** 14.04.13 18:34

happychick wrote:This is dated May 2008. Hardly latest news [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

The 'Latest News' is that I have just added the translation. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

The video will be moved to the correct section once seen.

by **PeterMac** 14.04.13 22:27

Just putting my plod bacon sandwich munching hat on again, there is a world of difference between
"I did not see them search, I did not see them leave the apartment"
and
"They did not search, they did not leave the apartment"

by aiyoyo 15.04.13 4:12

Sharp observation.
Both have drastic significance, one more so than the other.

by **tigger** 15.04.13 6:20

It would be instructive to find out the collateral damage in terms of employees of the Ocean Club.
Why on earth sack the Tapas staff, unless their witness statements would not support the official story? Imo MW did everything they could to move the abduction story along.
So:
Tapas staff was sacked.
Iirc one waiter from there went into hiding as he was a key witness.
Nannies were sent to other resorts almost immediately.
What happened to the cleaners? I saw a clip once where the cleaning ladies said they'd been sacked.

That is far from sensible management when the season is just beginning. Where did the many journalists stay? I'd have expected them to book at OC.
Yet the McCanns were living in two apartments for free until the 1st of July.
Looks like very drastic surgery. Also looks like removing witnesses.

Here are some statements from Tapas staff:
21.20 chef AEGFP Tapas hears ‘clamour’ .
21.40 he leaves Tapas restaurant - where until moments before he’d seen the table occupied now empty.
21.30 to 22.00 receptionist OC HJSL contacted by Tapas rest.
21.45.Waiter RAEDLO saw no one at the tapas table.
21.30 and 22.00 Fitness instructor/waiter JRS between spoke to DW .

by **PeterMac** 15.04.13 8:04

aiyoyo wrote:Both have drastic significance, one more so than the other.

Indeed.
To say "They did not. . . " implies that the person saying it had them and the apartment under constant surveillance - which is unlikely
"I did not see . . and incidentally nor did anyone else in the large group of people I spoke to in the days following . . " - can begin to add up to the same thing.
Proving a negative is notoriously difficult.

by margaret 15.04.13 11:44

Kate has already told us that they DID search.

Her and Gerry went all over PDL early that morning, from the book...

Friday 4 May. Our first day without Madeleine. As soon as it was light
Gerry and I resumed our search. We went up and down roads we’d never
seen before, having barely left the Ocean Club complex all week. We
jumped over walls and raked through undergrowth. We looked in ditches
and holes. All was quiet apart from the sound of barking dogs, which
added to the eeriness of the atmosphere. I remember opening a big
dumpster-type bin and saying to myself, please God, don’t let her be in
here.

Given that they did all that searching don't you find the next part unbelievable?

The most striking and horrific thing about all this was that we
were completely alone. Nobody else, it seemed, was out looking for
Madeleine. Just us, her parents.

We must have been out for at least an hour

And NOBODY saw them search? Despite the fact that others were out all night? Convenient!

'We must have been out for at least an hour' - you wouldn't have kept me inside if my child was missing [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

by Guest 15.04.13 11:58

As long as an hour? Wow!!!!

by **PeterMac** 15.04.13 12:26

No Fate Worse Than De'Ath wrote:As long as an hour? Wow!!!!

BBC TV interview
A fortnight after Gerry’s second statement, on 25th May 2007, the McCanns were interviewed by Jane Hill of the BBC.
The clip may be viewed on YouTube [6]
Transcript -

Jane Hill: "I met people who didn't go to work for more than a week because everyday they were down on the beach, searching the streets. Did you, as a mother Kate, just sometimes think 'I've got to go and be out there with them. I want to go and just physically look as well."

Kate: “(Pause) I mean, I did. Errm... (Long Pause) Errm, we'd been working really hard really. Apart... I mean, the first 48 hours, as Gerry said, are incredibly difficult and we were almost non-functioning, I'd say, errm, but after that you get strength from somewhere. We've certainly had loads of support and that's given us strength and its been able to make us focus really so we have actually, in our own way, it might not be physically searching but we've been working really hard and doing absolutely everything we can, really, to get Madeleine back."

Gerry: Made no reply.

Observations

1 The parents are being given every opportunity to say publicly what searches they had done. They have the opportunity to emphasise, for example, that Kate had remained to look after the twins and that Gerry had searched extensively. They have the opportunity to explain in great detail what they had done.

2 They remain silent.

3 They do not mention anything which appears in the following extract from the book, “madeleine”, by Kate McCann, published in 2011.

p. 73 Gerry, David, Russell and Matt split into pairs and dashed around the adjacent apartment blocks, meeting back at our flat within a couple of minutes.

p. 80 On my insistence, Gerry and Dave went out again to look for some sign of Madeleine. They went up and down the beach in the dark, running, shouting, desperate to find something;

p. 81 I walked briskly up and down Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva, sometimes breaking into a jog, clinging to the hope that I’d spot something in the dark.

p. 81 Back in the apartment the cold, black night enveloped us all for what seemed like an eternity. Dianne and I sat there just staring at each other, still as statues. ‘It’s so dark,’ she said again and again. ‘I want the light to come.’ I felt exactly the same way. Gerry was stretched out on a camp bed with Amelie asleep on his chest. He kept saying, ‘Kate, we need to rest.’ He managed to drift off but only briefly, certainly for less than an hour. I didn’t even try. I couldn’t have allowed myself to entertain sleep. I felt Madeleine’s terror, and I had to keep vigil with her. I needed to be doing something, but I didn’t know where to put myself. I wandered restlessly in and out of the room and on to the balcony.
At long last, dawn broke.

p. 83 Friday 4 May. Our first day without Madeleine. As soon as it was light Gerry and I resumed our search. We went up and down roads we’d never seen before, having barely left the Ocean Club complex all week. We jumped over walls and raked through undergrowth. We looked in ditches and holes. All was quiet apart from the sound of barking dogs, which added to the eeriness of the atmosphere. I remember opening a big dumpster-type bin and saying to myself, please God, don’t let her be in here. The most striking and horrific thing about all this was that we were completely alone. Nobody else, it seemed, was out looking for Madeleine. Just us, her parents.
We must have been out for at least an hour before returning to David and Fiona’s apartment . . .

Observations

1 This is the first occasion on which we are told that the parents searched. (4 years after the event)

2 None of these details were included in any statement, nor in any interview prior to publication.

3 If we add the total time spent by the parents in searching, we find “a couple of minutes,” plus a “run up and down the beach”, plus “a brisk walk up and down the road”, plus “at least an hour”.
Total search time, it seems, no longer than 1 hour 45 min.

4 It is entirely unclear why Kate would need to insist that Gerry went out to search.

5 Matthew Oldfield’s rogatory interview does not say that he and Gerry were searching together. In the rogatory interview there is an ambiguous passage which may indicate that he and Gerry were together on the beach. [7]

6 It is also made clear that both parents spent the latter part of the night either sleeping (Gerry), or “keeping vigil” (Kate)

7 The use of the word “resumed” on p.83 is therefore questionable.

by Liz Eagles 15.04.13 12:52

Snipped from PeterMac's excellent post.

'p. 81 I walked briskly up and down Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva,
sometimes breaking into a jog, clinging to the hope that I’d spot
something in the dark.'

What on earth possessed the woman to even mention those things in her bewk?

by Guest 15.04.13 17:35

margaret wrote:Kate has already told us that they DID search.

Her and Gerry went all over PDL early that morning, from the book...

Friday 4 May. Our first day without Madeleine. As soon as it was light
Gerry and I resumed our search. We went up and down roads we’d never
seen before, having barely left the Ocean Club complex all week. We
jumped over walls and raked through undergrowth. We looked in ditches
and holes. All was quiet apart from the sound of barking dogs, which
added to the eeriness of the atmosphere. I remember opening a big
dumpster-type bin and saying to myself, please God, don’t let her be in
here.

Given that they did all that searching don't you find the next part unbelievable?

The most striking and horrific thing about all this was that we
were completely alone. Nobody else, it seemed, was out looking for
Madeleine. Just us, her parents.

We must have been out for at least an hour

And NOBODY saw them search? Despite the fact that others were out all night? Convenient!

'We must have been out for at least an hour' - you wouldn't have kept me inside if my child was missing [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Not to bicker, but to nail the issue to the floor: at what time officially it was sunrise on May 7/8th?

by **tigger** 15.04.13 17:42

6.02.08 am Mum mob calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.04.11 am Kate calls Mum mob (0 seconds) SMS
6.05.29 am Kate calls Amanda home (7.02 minutes)
6.08.17 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS

6.18.17 am Kate calls Jon Corner (0 seconds) SMS
6.34.53 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.35.23 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
6.39.38 am Kate calls Jon Corner (0 seconds) SMS
6.47.42 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.47.54 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.48.05 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.59.12 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.59.44 am Kate calls Jon Corner (0 seconds) SMS

07.00 am GNR Officer P. J. F. N. saw the McCann couple alone in the street next to the site where they were stationed.

7.06.06 am Sue and Brian Healy call Gerry (01 seconds) SMS
7.09.04 am John McCann calls Gerry (3.26 minutes)
7.15.19 am Gerry calls Angela Morado UK Consulate (4.51 minutes)
7.23.20 am … calls Gerry (5.53 minutes)
7.41.14 am Jill mob calls Kate (3.30 minutes)
7.44.48 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
7.46.36 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
7.48.12 am … calls Kate (373 seconds)
7.51.14 am … calls Kate (1.26 minutes)
8.06.14 am mum mob calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
8.07.52 am Kate calls mum mob (0 seconds) SMS
8.11.35 am Jill mob calls Kate (1.56 minutes)
8.21.21 am Jill mob calls Kate (153 seconds)
8.27.26 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
8.28.30 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
8.29.56 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
8.31.00 am Kate calls Michelle mob (3 seconds)
8.31.21 am Jill mob calls Kate (2.33 minutes)
8.34.09 am Kate calls … (32 seconds)
8.34.19 am Kate calls Jon Corner (61 seconds)
8.34.59 am voicemail calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
8.35.15 am Gerry calls Angela Morado, UK consulate (1.43 minutes)
8.35.21 am Kate calls voicemail (20 seconds)
8.36.03 am Kate calls voicemail (37 seconds)

by Guest 15.04.13 18:46

Do you, do we, take the private phone number of the consulate with us when we take a family holiday with family holiday friends?

by margaret 15.04.13 18:47

Portia wrote:
margaret wrote:Kate has already told us that they DID search.

Her and Gerry went all over PDL early that morning, from the book...

Friday 4 May. Our first day without Madeleine. As soon as it was light
Gerry and I resumed our search. We went up and down roads we’d never
seen before, having barely left the Ocean Club complex all week. We
jumped over walls and raked through undergrowth. We looked in ditches
and holes. All was quiet apart from the sound of barking dogs, which
added to the eeriness of the atmosphere. I remember opening a big
dumpster-type bin and saying to myself, please God, don’t let her be in
here.

Given that they did all that searching don't you find the next part unbelievable?

The most striking and horrific thing about all this was that we
were completely alone. Nobody else, it seemed, was out looking for
Madeleine. Just us, her parents.

We must have been out for at least an hour

And NOBODY saw them search? Despite the fact that others were out all night? Convenient!

'We must have been out for at least an hour' - you wouldn't have kept me inside if my child was missing [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Not to bicker, but to nail the issue to the floor: at what time officially it was sunrise on May 7/8th?

Why 7th/8th portia, it was 4th may?

by Guest 15.04.13 18:48

Portia wrote:Do you, do we, take the private phone number of the consulate with us when we take a family holiday with family holiday friends?

by Guest 15.04.13 18:49

margaret wrote:
Portia wrote:
margaret wrote:Kate has already told us that they DID search.

Her and Gerry went all over PDL early that morning, from the book...

Friday 4 May. Our first day without Madeleine. As soon as it was light
Gerry and I resumed our search. We went up and down roads we’d never
seen before, having barely left the Ocean Club complex all week. We
jumped over walls and raked through undergrowth. We looked in ditches
and holes. All was quiet apart from the sound of barking dogs, which
added to the eeriness of the atmosphere. I remember opening a big
dumpster-type bin and saying to myself, please God, don’t let her be in
here.

Given that they did all that searching don't you find the next part unbelievable?

The most striking and horrific thing about all this was that we
were completely alone. Nobody else, it seemed, was out looking for
Madeleine. Just us, her parents.

We must have been out for at least an hour

And NOBODY saw them search? Despite the fact that others were out all night? Convenient!

'We must have been out for at least an hour' - you wouldn't have kept me inside if my child was missing [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Not to bicker, but to nail the issue to the floor: at what time officially it was sunrise on May 7/8th?

Why 7th/8th portia, it was 4th may?

Sorry, busy day. My mistake. I stand corrected.

by **PeterMac** 15.04.13 19:01

"Lagos, Sunday, March 4
Sunrise, 7:01 AM
Sunset, 6:31 PM Hours of daylight 11h 30m 28s
Civil twilight 6:35 AM to 6:57 PM
During civil twilight . . .Objects are clearly distinguished without artificial light."

by Guest 15.04.13 21:40

May 4: 5:02 AM ;-)

by plebgate 16.04.13 9:02

margaret wrote:Kate has already told us that they DID search.

Her and Gerry went all over PDL early that morning, from the book...

Friday 4 May. Our first day without Madeleine. As soon as it was light
Gerry and I resumed our search. We went up and down roads we’d never
seen before, having barely left the Ocean Club complex all week. We
jumped over walls and raked through undergrowth. We looked in ditches
and holes. All was quiet apart from the sound of barking dogs, which
added to the eeriness of the atmosphere. I remember opening a big
dumpster-type bin and saying to myself, please God, don’t let her be in
here.

Given that they did all that searching don't you find the next part unbelievable?

The most striking and horrific thing about all this was that we
were completely alone. Nobody else, it seemed, was out looking for
Madeleine. Just us, her parents.

We must have been out for at least an hour

And NOBODY saw them search? Despite the fact that others were out all night? Convenient!

'We must have been out for at least an hour' - you wouldn't have kept me inside if my child was missing [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]