MITÄ tuo BBC:n uusi Madeleine-käänne tarkoittaa?

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mutta en kerennyt nähdä kuin lopun. Joku toimittaja siinä oli jostakin syystä jutun kohteena ja paikallinen mummo. Toista toimittajaa haastateltiin, miksi oli ilmiantanut tämän toimittajan. tms?

mutta eilenillalla BBC:n paauutislahetyksessa kerrottiin, etta kolmea ihmista on kuultu Madeleinen katoamiseen liittyen. Tata ennen jo satoja on kuultu, mutta nyt etsijat ovat myos tutkineet vain noin 800 metrin paassa katoamispaikasta sijaitsevaa taloa ja autoa sen pihalla.



Talon omistaa vanhempi brittinainen, joka on elanyt Portugalissa lahes koko ikansa. Han on alueella hyvin tunnettu ihminen seka paikallisten etta brittien keskuudessa. Han sanoi eilen telkkarissa, ettei tieda miksi poliisit ovat hanen talossaan.



Hanen aikuinen poikansa on ollut innokkaasti mukana Madeleinen etsinnoissa. Osa muualta tulleista reporttereista oli luullut hanen olevan paikallinen etsiva, niin innolla han oli osallistunut ja mm. kaynyt rikospaikalla. Han on journalisti myos, mutta nyt hanen osuuttaan on alettu tutkia, ja oletettavasti han on yksi noista kolmesta eilen kuullusta. Tan vanhan naisen talosta nakyy se hotellikompleksi, josta Maddy katosi.

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Briton questioned by police investigating the disappearance of four-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal left Portimao' s police station in the early hours of this morning it is reported.



Jenny Murat told Sky News that her son, Robert, had been released by the police but would not be returning immediately to the Praia da Luz villa they share. Mr Murat, 33, was believed to have been released in the company of a German woman, Sky said. It remains unclear if he was being questioned as a witness or a suspect.



Police who yesterday searched the Murats' Praia da Luz villa, 150 yards from the holiday apartment where the McCann family had been staying, took away computer equipment, Mrs Murat told Sky. Forensics experts and sniffer dogs were brought in to examine the villa, Casa Liliana, during a search that lasted until late last night. Mrs Murat, who remains at the villa, denied reports the the swimming pool had been drained. Last night officers stood guard outside the property.



The Policia Judiciaria said two or three people were being questioned but stressed no-one had been formally arrested. A blue car containing a man crouched forward was driven out of the rear of the police station in Portimao at around 11.30pm yesterday, some reports today suggest the man was an associate of Robert Murat.



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Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa said more than one person had been taken to the police building in Portimao to make statements. He emphasised that they had not been arrested. Mr Sousa described yesterday¿s search and questioning as a ¿normal development¿ in the case.



Mr Murat had joined the search for Madeleine on the night she went missing and had been closely involved with the investigation ever since. He told friends that he was working as a translator between Madeleine¿s parents, Kate and Gerry, and the police.



Mr Murat, 33, had said he was deeply concerned about the case because he had recently lost a case involving the right of his own three-year-old daughter, who looked like the missing girl, to live with him.



He became known to British reporters and made himself available to help them to operate in a foreign country. He had joked that he might be a suspect in the investigation. Unconfirmed reports early this morning suggested that Mr Murat may have been released after answering police questions.



On Monday last week detectives were alerted to concerns about Mr Murat¿s unusual behaviour by Lori Campbell, a journalist who works for the Sunday Mirror. She said: ¿He was acting very strangely. I found him to be creepy. When he was talking to me he was vague about his background. He was coming in and out of the family apartment speaking with the media and acting like he was somebody official.¿ When a photographer took Mr Murat¿s photograph, he became nervous and asked her to delete the picture, she said.



Mr Murat' s cousin, Sally Eveleigh, said there was ¿absolutely no way¿ he could have anything to do with Madeleine¿s disappearance. Ms Eveleigh, who runs a guesthouse near Lagos, close to Praia da Luz, told Sky News: ¿They [police] had heard from English reporters that ... Robert had said he missed his daughter so much. And from that, because they¿ve got nothing to go on, they¿ve all started assuming.



¿We had dinner with them on Saturday night, him and his mother. He was so calm, they stayed at the table when we left - if you¿re doing something bad, there¿s no way you would be doing that. And I¿ve known him all his life - he¿s much younger than me - and there¿s absolutely no way. He loves children, but not to do something like that."



Ms Eveleigh was visited by police last night who questioned her about her cousin, she told Sky.



Mr Murat, who described himself as a property developer, has been staying at the villa with his mother, Jenny, 71, who has lived at the property for about 40 years. The house has an uninterrupted view of the flat from which Madeleine disappeared.



Mr Murat has recently been in Britain visiting his former wife, Dawn, and their daughter in Hockering, Norfolk. Mrs Murat last night refused to comment at the home that she used to share with him. Speaking behind a closed door she said: ¿I have nothing to say. Go away.¿ At about 10pm she was taken from the house by police in an unmarked car. It is believed that she was with her daughter.



Geoffrey Livock, 71, who lives in Hockering, said: ¿Robert is a goodhearted chap. He was never in any kind of trouble here. He is just a normal fellow.¿



Mr Murat had lived on the Algarve with his English mother and Portuguese father until he moved to England when he was in his late teens. It is believed he had only recently returned to Portugal after his marriage broke down.



Gaynor de Jesus, who went to school with Mr Murat, said: ¿He said he was an official translator for the police. He has a very easy way of coming across with them [the police] like he has known them all his life. He was quite easygoing . All witness accounts, everything that¿s been coming into them, he has had first-hand information.¿



Hundreds of apartments have been searched during the past 11 days. The search of a property of someone closely connected with the police investigation will raise concerns about why police did not act sooner on information from a British journalist.



David Shelton, who coordinated the public search teams, said last night: ¿Robert was there on the first day helping with the police. He later told me he had signed a declaration of secrecy and could not talk about his work. I didn¿t really know him before but he seemed like a nice normal guy.¿



Mrs Murat insisted last night that her son had not done anything wrong. ¿I have been told not to say anything,¿ she said. ¿I insist the police issue a formal statement when all this is over to clear his name.¿

Hänen mukaansa mies oli liian kiinnostunut tutkinnasta ja oli koko ajan puhumassa toimittajille ja kyselemässä heidän mielipidettään siitä, mitä on tapahtunut. Murat väitti auttavansa poliisia käänöstyössä, koska puhuu sujuvasti portugalia ja englantia (hän on kasvanut Portugalissa). Toimittajan mielestä tämä oli epäilyttävää, koska poliisilla on omat kääntäjänsä. Murat myös yritti johdattaa toimittajia pois rikospaikalta esittämällä arvailuja, että Madeleine olisi varmasti viety Espanjaan.



Muratin äiti, joka omistaa tutkittavana olevan villan, on pystyttänyt yhdessä joidenkin muiden kanssa kojun, jonne voi nimettömänä jättää mahdollisia tietoja Madeleinen katoamisesta. Hän perusteli toimintaansa sillä, että monet Portugalissa asuvat eivät syystä tai toisesta haluaisi mennä poliisin puheille, vaikka heillä olisikin tapauksesta tietoja.