Madeleine MCann: Spotted In Sydney, Following Robert Murat And Arab Slavery
MADDYWATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
NEWS.COM.AU (News Corp.): “Maddie Sydney alert after ‘sighting’”
SYDNEY police were sent into a flutter today when a member of the public called in thinking they’d spotted missing British girl Madeleine McCann in the CBD. Rail staff appeared to shadow a middle-aged man wearing a black beret and a little, blonde girl until police arrived at Town Hall train station to question the pair.
How did she get there from Malta?
The Daily Telegraph spotted three police officers talking to the man and the girl at the Luneburger German Bakery underneath the Queen Victoria Building in the heart of the city. But police say the report turned out to be a false alarm.
DAILY MIRROR: “Madeleine McCann suspect’s fury at finding GPS tracker”
Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat has discovered tracking devices fitted to his cars. British expat Murat, 33, found the GPS bug when he was fixing a fault on his VW Transporter.
He checked girlfriend Michaela Walczuch’s motor and found – another stuck to that. Furious Murat believes Portuguese police bugged his cars in a desperate bid to nail him for the abduction of Madeleine, four, from Praia da Luz in May.He is also probing whether Kate and Gerry McCann’s private detective agency Metodo 3 could have done it on its own initiative.
Such is the speculation.
His lawyer Francisco Pagarete said last night: “I’m not yet sure what kind of crime we’re dealing with here.”
Which for a lawyer may be less than ideal.
What news of the search in the lake?
It also emerged yesterday that lawyer Marcos Correia only dragged a reservoir looking for Madeleine because he had dreamed she was dumped there.
THE SUN: “Maddie suspect car was bugged”
The property developer discovered his company Romigen’s website had been hacked into. Emails were diverted and messages sent in his name.
One email sent from his account asked Sergey Malinka, a Russian ex-pat pal, for a secret meeting.
A source close to the case said: “It looks like attempts have been made to entrap him.”
THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL: “Moroccan Nights
Edmund Stuart intertwines the past and the present of the Mahgreb Moroccan Arabic, known as Darija, is the first language of most Moroccans, the main exception being the Berbers—historically the indigenous inhabitants of North Africa, predating the Arab conquest—who speak a separate language. Today they are centred largely in the Atlas and Rif Mountains. Their tall stature and blonde hair once made them the prized slaves of the Arab Sultans and it is a stature still noticeable today – one blonde Berber girl was recently mistaken for Madeleine McCann.
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