The Strasbourg Court denied on Tuesday the family claim of Madeleine McCann, the girl who disappeared in May 2007 while her family was on vacation in the south of Portugal. their reputation was tarnished by the police theory that they were responsible for what happened.
European judges estimate that Portugal did not violate the right to the presumption of innocence and that the book in which the investigative investigator originally developed this theory and had a factual fiction was not the book that triggered the media campaign that centered them. interest that has already begun.
Also, your doubts about them In the first stage of the investigation, the indictment, Despite the fact that the prosecution brought the charges up in July 2008, three days before the publication of the controversial book by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which only defined GO with its initials.
In practice, information on suspicious substances was disclosed to the public in detail and widely publicized by the international media.
This was when the potential damage to the parents’ reputation occurred, Gerald Patrick McCann and Kate Marie Healy.
The ECtHR agreed with the Portuguese Justice, which dismissed the McCanns’ previous appeals for the presumption of innocence, as the version about the alleged responsibility for the girl’s disappearance was part of a public debate. and the inspector’s thesis was one of several views that existed in this debate.
Three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007. from the tourist resort of Praia da Luz, where she is on vacation with her family and siblings.
The investigation took many turns. It could be one of 2020 for sureWhen the German Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that it concluded that the girl was dead, and that the person responsible may be a man who was imprisoned in that country at the time and who was later charged at the request of the Portuguese Justice.