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I just wonder why the newspapers haven´t publicised it in the light of this new Barcelona item. They both happened at the same time in the same City. There might be a trail to follow there even at this late stage. But yes, I am losing faith now.

rosemary wrote:I just wonder why the newspapers haven´t publicised it in the light of this new Barcelona item. They both happened at the same time in the same City. There might be a trail to follow there even at this late stage. But yes, I am losing faith now.

Rosemary, the PI's are not going to divulge anything they find, I think the press will keep printing rubbish they think they know. So DO NOT lose faith, unless you want me to make a trip over and kick your butt

Yeah Christobel come on over and kick my butt.....I guess it would do me good. I am one of those half glass empty people, wish I wasn´t but we can´t change can we.
We are all so involved and yet we aren´t - we are on the sidelines and know nuttin´ really!
i´LL CALM DOWN AND RECOVER.

Imo the investigators are actively and aggressively pursuing the Barcelona tip. I think the whole yacht thing was a media invention that created a lot of unnecessary cartoonish confusion, and was not of much interest to the investigators, as was revealed in an article this morning. Also the investigators have said they were only discussing the e-fit of this Barcelona woman to enlist public help in locating her. They explained they would not be discussing the lead beyond that and have kept to their word. I suspect the media is frustrated at the lack of further case info. and are trying desperately to force investigators to feed them tidbits that could make news (obviously - otherwise the media wouldn't resort to creating false stories out of wealthy yacht traveling socialites). The media should just back off and respect that the investigators were requesting help only at that juncture in the investigation and could jeopardize the case if the media is too privy to the case.

Good point ChloeV, I agree with you.

Hi Chloe

Good points you make. I feel that this relationship between the investigative reporters who nowadays are very hot and backed by oodles of money and the 2 retired guys the Mccanns have hired is fraught with professional rivalry and not a small amount of jealousy. The problem lies also in the mistrust on both sides, reasonable when you think about it, but a shame because they could be so useful to each other.

Also I think the investigators have stated all along that the Barcelona lead was not "in a vacuum" and have other avenues that of investigation that make this lead of interest. I think we do not know a hundredth of the matter.

Of course, in my opinion.

Chloe, thank you some very good points and well made too!

Why is it when there are two reports some choose to believe the negative when they can just as easily believe the positive one? Let's face it, none of us actually know anything for sure, all we know is what we are told, personally. Journalists are just like anyone else, they write their reports on the basis of their own slant and we should try and bear this in mind. I just replied abut the Mail report, while it held a few things I had not heard about before about 90% of it was just flim-flam padding and totally irrelevant, it meant absolutely nothing and had no relevance to what the journalists was actually trying to write about - in short, it was just sloppy journalism.

For me the investigators are the only people that actually know what is going on, I do not and I try and remember this. I believe that everything the investigators are telling us, they are telling us because they want us to know at that particular time and for whatever reason, so I trust them.

That Mail journalist was going on about the Wylie boat, well we all knew this early last week that this was probably NOT the boat that the investigators are interested in and we also knew there was another boat that they were interested in. Now I understand that the investigators have spoken to the Wylies and although we have not been officially told, I am assuming that they have been ruled out BUT despite what the Mail journalist has said, the crew of the Wylie boat have been spoken to and in fact it is has been reported that the crew have been really helpful and given over a number of potential leads. Now what more can we expect and what more should we expect?

On one hand if we read in the papers that this that and the other has been said and spoken to etc etc etc, we say how could the journalist have possibly known this and why are the investigators giving out this kind if info? Yet if they give nothing out then we have journalists making up stories and everyone starts attacking the investigators, they cannot win really can they?

However, now we are being told that the investigators know the location of the other boat and its owners and crew they would like to speak to and that a designated time and place has been arranged fr this meeting. So we all have to wait and see what comes from this, but here again, even if the Wylies or the occupants of the other boat were guilty and did abduct or had something to do with the abduction of Madeleine, whoever it was is not just going to put their hand up and say "OK it's me" are they? They are going to deny it and they are going to have alibis and this is where the police work comes in, investigating this and checking out alibis and this is where cases are sometimes solved, when something, some very small seemingly minor insignificant detail which doesn't check out, or just doesn't seem right, leads on to other things and suddenly the detectives are looking for a whole new set of details.

Meanwhile it is worth understanding that, these detectives only have a very small staff, and everything that has to be checked out is long and time consuming and this is probably hampered because there are several different languages involved. These PI's do not have the luxury of an incident room full of staff and detective work is mainly just long hard laborious slog!

I agree with Chloe, I do not think we know anywhere near what these detectives know and they have actually told us, they are following up several "strong lines of enquiry".

Being negative doesn't really help anyone, least of all Madeleine.

Madeleine will be found soon, I am sure of this. Chris and Tinks know why I am saying this!

Rosie, I have never doubted that Madeleine will be found, I just hope it is soon. I have always thought a boat was involved, several reasons for this, which confirm to me a boat was involved.
We are on a public forum, although private area, so we all have to tread carefully in our posts.
But, I have no doubts about Madeleine being found.

Hi Rosie, Royal, Peaceful, Pedro, Rosemary,

Just read that a 'Debbie Butler' of the T.B. cult has been dropping hate leaflets on the doorsteps of all the McCann's neighbors. Sorry to read this disgusting news. I can't decide if it's better the media is reporting on it or worse. Hate to give them the press but also think it's time they are exposed.

Yup its true. Targetted all the McCanns neighbours and villagers, then tried to claim it was done to 'help' the McCanns??
Evil cow!

The gall to say it would help the McCanns - when the leaflet doesn't ask to re-open the investigation - is just digusting.