Soon, very soon the world will know the "Truth about the Lie" and "we will gain truth and justice for a little girl who
has no voice", dead on the evening of May 3rd at apartment 5A, Ocean Club, Praia da Luz, Algarve, Portugal" - Gonçalo Amaral, 22 April 2008
Gonçalo Amaral with wife Sofia
Message to readers of this site, from Gonçalo Amaral - 22 April 2008
As you can understand, I can't do any comment about the investigation on the "McCann Case"... (I have omitted the next
part, in the interests of privacy and it did not in any way compromise the judicial secrecy laws)
Looking towards my freedom of speech, I asked for my retirement last month. All the insults, false accusations and lie's
from the past year are now being brought to court from my lawyers (the very last one is from Daily Mail, yesterday).
I
would like to say thank you to the thousands of persons that every day, for the last year, are supporting me all over the
world. I would like to answer all the phone calls, emails and letters, but is not possible...there are so many! As you can
imagine, most of the days are not that easy, and these messages have been a great support not only for me, but also for my
family. Once again, thank you all!
You're allowed do display this message on you site, and I thank you for that. One last thing:
*Soon, very soon the world will know the "Truth about the Lie" and "we will gain truth and justice for a little girl who
has no voice", dead on the evening of May 3rd at apartment 5A, Ocean Club, Praia da Luz, Algarve, Portugal"*
Best regards, Gonçalo Amaral
Coversation amongst
policemen, 03 May 2008
Coversation
amongst policemen ASFIC-PJ Blog (union of the PJ)
Thursday, July
3, 2008
Translation by
Google and 'pear'
When, in late 1983 (some 25
years ago) I and some colleagues, completed the training course in the School, we were placed in Training Group, then SCITE
/ CICD, at the end of the street Conde de Redondo. We found there a group of police investigators whose characteristics, individual
and in group, and the way they worked, led us (at least most of us) to want to be there placed permanently.
Indeed,
the motivation and dedication to service, the enthusiasm and joy with which they played their roles, the competence and professionalism
that they demonstrated were for us, new trainees of the School of Barro, the assurance that the occupation we were beginning
would translate in an activity full of achievement and a great career and a bright future.
Many of those colleagues
of ours were about our age, little older than us, from the course that immediately preceded ours and thus with their training
recently completed.
Among them was the Gonçalo Amaral. Perhaps with more hair than now, and possibly a little less
heavy. For the rest, he was the same. Already at that time he surprised us with his commitment to the profession, which showed
the competence, the assurance with which he worked, the courage with which he would go anywhere and face all sorts of situations
and opponents. Similarly, it was striking the good grace with which he faced setbacks and adversities of the function, and
the tolerance with which he accepted the jokes, sometimes irreverent, of some colleague (and I can say it, because my conscience
accuses me of having been the one, quite a few times).
Later Gonçalo would work in Faro and in Ponta Delgada. Always
with the personal availability and professional capability that are his characteristics. And in all the many aspects that
are today's work of an investigator of the Judiciary Police. Investigating murders or gathering information on organized criminal
networks. Analysing documentation on complex financial movements or capturing dangerous individuals. Without evading difficulties
nor losing courage when facing setbacks. Being frontal and going to fight. Always.
Again in Lisbon and in the fight
to drug trafficking, Gonçalo was indicated, even as an agent, to head a Investigation Brigade in the DCITE. Those that were
then in that department, will recall that the results achieved by the Brigade, under the charismatic leadership of Gonçalo
Amaral, soon exceeded the average statistics. The figures obtained by him and his men, either on the numbers of arrests, either
on the amount of narcotic or goods and assets seized, or even on the convictions achieved in Court marked a time in the DCITE
and set an example.
I know. I remember well. It was there. He accumulated the leadership of the Brigade with the
condition of university student. And his characteristic style of leadership, taking consistent and full responsibility, ever
present and available, did not prevent him obtaining a law licence, in the shortest possible time allowed. Despite his previous
training in Engineering.
We found ourselves in the course of promotion to Subinspector. Again Gonçalo demonstrated
his remarkable work capacity because he did this course, intensive and demanding, in combination with the leadership of the
Brigade of Investigation. Patent was, also, once again, his significant ability to study and he concluded the course in the
first place among 99 colleagues. Later, as a logical and natural sequence of his professional career and his life, he would
compete for Coordinator of Criminal Investigation and, as expected, be promoted to that category shortly afterwards.
Then... Well,
about a year ago, we watched, amazed, a kind of show hitherto unheard among us. As in the autosdafe of the past, some media
(mainly British, but unfortunately not only) "destroyed" in public a man of the Portuguese Judiciary Police. A top cadre of
the career of Criminal Investigation. Our colleague, and friend of many of us. A character assassination like no other employee
of this house had been victim before. Why? Because, as has always been his hallmark, Dr. Goncalo Amaral, Coordinator of
Criminal Investigation of the Judiciary Police, went to fight, committed himself, faced, with courage and decision, the difficulties
and setbacks of an extremely complex case whose contours are still, and perhaps forever, undefined .
Perhaps for
the first time in the history of Judiciary Police, an investigator is exposed in the public square and his privacy assaulted.
Only because he was investigating a suspected case. Because he was working. Perhaps the Portuguese state, the government,
our Judiciary Police should have mechanisms to protect their representatives in situations like this. To protect them in the
exercise of their professional activity in the Public Service. Perhaps all of us, his co-workers, should have taken it up
to us, and doing justice to the famous, traditional and so bandied about "Esprit de Corps" that they say is characteristic
of our "House", we ought to have, in some way, expressed our support to Dr . Gonçalo Amaral.
Nothing of this has happened.
Gonçalo was left alone. If this strategy catches in the future, facing powerful and well connected defendants, maybe other
investigators will be the object of this ordeal. It could be any of us. And that could be, somehow, the end of the criminal
investigation. At least the way we envision it and develop it.
May this case serve as a subject of reflection. And
as an example. And may it help us create ways to avoid a repetition. The very ASFICPJ should, perhaps, analyse, seriously,
conscientiously and thoroughly, in a serene and constructive way, this whole situation. It is also their obligation.
Gonçalo,
my friend, I regret sincerely your exit of the Judiciary Police, which seems to me too early because I admit that you could
give more to the cause of the Society, Justice and Public Service. Our "House", moreover, does not have many resources, in
quality and quantity, to afford to not put them to profit or, even worse, to leave them to waste.
It remains for me,
faced with the facts, to thank you for your friendship and wish you all the best and every success in the new stage of life
that you have decided to start.
Lisbon, 03 July 2008,
Joao Fernandes Figueira Member of A.S.F.I.C. / P.J.
No. 711 Published by ASFIC at 09:36
Investigator says
that Maddie is dead, 03 May 2008
"We will
gain truth and justice for a little girl who has no voice, dead on the evening of May 3rd at apartment 5A, Ocean Club, Praia da Luz"The sentence is from Gonçalo Amaral, former-coordinator of the inquiry
into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Word by word, the
inner feelings integrate the text sent by the inspector of the Judicial Police (PJ) - in pre-retirement - for an English site,
which collects information on the mystery created around the English child, missing one year ago today.
The message was published on April 22 and is followed with the announcement that 'soon, very soon, the World will go
to know 'truth of the lie''. Curiously, it is the heading of the book that, as CM already reported, Gonçalo Amaral intends
to launch, with explosive data on his investigating experience whilst with the PJ during the period when he was at the front
of the Maddie case.
CM knows that this is the full conviction of this
element of the PJ, which is based on 'strong indications' which lead them to follow the theory of negligent homicide, following
an accident inside the apartment where the McCann couple were on holiday.
On the same British site (www.mccannfiles.com), without
ever accusing anybody, Gonçalo Amaral relates that "I can't do any
comment about the investigation on the "McCann Case", so as 'not to compromise the secret of justice'.
He also underlines that, looking towards his proper
freedom of speech, he asked for retirement from the Judiciary in the month of May. At the same time, he thanked 'the support
of thousands of people' that have contacted
him and have sent letters and e-mails, from all over the world.
Gonçalo Amaral also clarifies that "All the insults, false accusations and lie's from the past year (when he still investigated the
Maddie case) are now being brought to court from my lawyers", as was already notified by CM.
On the same British site - whose author says 'to look for the truth on Madeleine McCann and to highlight
concerns and inconsistencies' - the result of a poll on what happened to Madeleine is published, where the great majority
of the voters declared that the English child 'died as the result of an accident involving the parents'.
Former inspector of the PJ believes that Maddie is dead, 03 May 2008
Former inspector of the PJ believes that Maddie is dead - RTP video featuring Gonçalo Amaral's email to
this site
Gonçalo Amaral, the former inspector of the PJ, removed during the investigation, for the first time,
made a public declaration on a British site on the internet.
The ex-inspector doesn’t have any doubt that Maddie is
dead and that the truth will be known very soon.
03 May 2008
Thanks to 'Luz' from the3arguidos forum for
translation
[00:00] This is a confession (desabafo)
written in English, «soon, very soon the world will know the Truth of the Lie».
[00:04) These are the words of Gonçalo Amaral and they are the first since
he was removed from the investigation on Maddie’s case.
[00:15] «…and it will gain truth and
justice for a little girl, who has no voice, dead on the evening of may 3rd, at the apartment 5A, Ocean Club, Praia da Luz,
Algarve».
[00:26] In October, declarations to the press about an alleged favouring of the British Police to
the McCann, opened to him the exit door of the PJ. Gonçalo Amaral is now in a process of pre-retirement.
[00:35] On
the British site, that collects information about the disappearance of Maddie, the ex-investigator left thanks, confessions...,
and he «doesn’t say more because of the secret of justice».
[00:50] He
doesn’t speak about his retirement from the Judiciária, but for those that defend him, they make, with caution, a reading,
[00:57] "I think that his removal may have been useful, I don’t know
to whom, but may have been useful at least on one fact: we knew for sure that as long as he remained in the process there
would be a strong investment in the investigation" (Paulo Santos – G. Amaral's lawyer)
[01:13] One year has already
gone by and what we know about the night of May 3rd remains involved in mystery. Making a reconstruction of the disappearance
is a hypothesis that is not excluded by PJ.
[01:25] And in case that happens, Alipio Ribeiro says that the presence
of the parents is very important. In declarations to the Lusa Agency, the National Director of the PJ "considers that it would
be of indispensable that the McCann couple accepted to participate under the Portuguese legal rules".
Gonçalo Amaral will strengthen the range
of specialised columnists at CM. The author of 'The Truth of the Lie', who has now published his book, will share
with the reader a different view on the criminal investigation and its contours and also on the issues of Justice.
As
of Saturday, do not miss 'Matter of Fact', signed by the man who was investigating for the Judicial Police since 1981.
Gonçalo Amaral, Ex-coordinator
of criminal investigation
02 August 2008 - 00h30
"A criminal investigation does not have to be
politically correct."
Those who knew me through social communication got an opinion based on my connection with the
so-called Maddie Case. During the investigation and after being removed, I was a target of the most terrible accusations from
the British press, some local commentators and a man named Clarence Mitchell, whose role is not very well understood. On the
eve of the publication of the book you already know, this gentleman was sending me threats : "that I should take care" - I
was stunned!
Let me make it clear that I consider this to be an unacceptable tone, coming from a citizen of the oldest
democracy in the world. Take care, why? Because I might step on a banana peel while walking? Is Mr Mitchell concerned about
my health? I do not think so. We all perceive his threatening tone.
In Portugal, we are not used to people speaking
that way. Nor is this the view we have of the British people, but there are always some people that fall out of standards.
A criminal investigation need not be politically correct, nor fear veiled threats. The book only contains facts and contains
no indictment. So the differences stand out.
Gonçalo Amaral - 'Matter of Fact' column,
09 August 2008
Gonçalo Amaral, Ex-coordinator of criminal investigation
Saturday, 9 August 2008
Thanks to 'astro' for translation
The
so-called "Maddie Case" process was made public last Monday. On that day, a new era in the relationship between the Portuguese
Justice and the public was started. Journalists from all over the world jumped on the thousands of pages, looking for secrets
as if they were the key to a mystery. It did not take more than a few hours for the brilliant minds to discover what a vast
team of Portuguese and English investigators and experts hadn't found in 14 months.
Leads and sightings jumped up in
great numbers – all of them credible and despised by the police, obviously. It is only elementary commonsense that the
process is read and re-read, so it can be understood completely and in a serene manner; criticism, if it exists, should come
afterwards, or we risk falling into the gratuitous sensationalism that some of the press victimised us to (us, incautious
citizens). The right to inform is not to speculate. And that is not what is expected from our journalists who, truth be told,
always knew how to distinguish themselves from the British. Do not lose reason now. You are thanked by Justice, by the citizens
– and, let’s not forget, by the child that disappeared on the 3rd o
