Seems Not Everyone in Portugal is Happy with the Big Gonc

Found this article.

Minster praises GNR performance during Maddie case
2/8/2008

Portugal’s Home Affairs Minster, Rui Pereira, told the country this week he believed the GNR police had acted in an “exemplary” fashion during the Madeleine McCann investigation, and in “close collaboration” with the PJ police.

Refuting criticism that the GNR police had contaminated the scene of crime before the PJ started their investigation, the government representative guaranteed that there was communication between the two.

In his book ‘Maddie, The Truth of the Lie’, PJ ex-inspector Gonçalo Amaral criticises that GNR’s behaviour during the investigation in Praia da Luz, where the then three-year-old Madeleine McCann went missing from her bed in a holiday apartment belonging to the Ocean Club Resort.

He accuses the officers of disturbing the investigators’ work, and maintains the child died in the apartment where she was on holiday with her family, who he suspects hid her body following a “tragic accident”.

Link is

http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/google.pl?id=970-10

Interesting the the Courier de Manure has not bothered to print this, being that it is in direct response to allegation that Gonc has made in his book. Keep this up and he will have no friends at all.

I remember reading about this in the Mirror I think it was. They had talked to two GNR members who the Mirror said had given them their names but wanted to remain anonymous.
The two GNR officers had heavily criticised the PJ for not taking control of the scene and the situation, the sais they looked to the PJ for their lead but got nothing at all from them.

I will try and find the link.

And although something may be lost in the translation, it is my impression that Gonc is also trying to lay part of the blame on the GNR, along with half the world.

It was him that failed to do his duty, that failed to even perform the basics. And by trying to lay blame everywhere else, he is only getting people off side.

It is as I said on another thread. It is the quantity of little things that he has tried to being together to show the McCanns are guilty of something (??) that mean they are not. It is like when a kid tells a lie, and then more and more to try to cover it up. He is trying to show he is right by bringing hundreds of irrelevant unrelated titbits (facts is not the word for most of them) to prove something.

Same with the reason he didnt do his job properly.. Blaming everyman and his dog, and none of it true. Had he just blamed his govt for putting political pressure on the case, and left it at that, it would be more believable. But instead, he makes it out ot be a conspiracy of international proportions, not designed to get the McCanns off but to stop him from doing his job. Self absorbed, unable to accept the results of his own actions and a more than a little paranoid. At least that is the impression that he is giving to me, and I suspect many others as well.