After the turbulence he has experienced in the past few weeks Pole Julia Faustyna claims to be her daughter, the Madeleine McCann family continues to be in the news. This time based on revelations compiled by the New York Post. According to the newspaper, the girl’s mother believes that a restaurant reservation book and mistakes in the initial investigation led to her daughter’s disappearance.
The restaurant reservation book
A brief context is needed to understand Kate McCann’s claim. The family vacationed in a hotel in Portugal in 2007 and Madeleine would have disappeared from the apartment they were staying in. At that time, the girl’s parents were having dinner with friends at the restaurant. ocean clubis located in the hotel.
Fast forward to 2019 when Netflix released the documentary The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. At the end of the novel, author Robbyn Swan claimed that Kate would never recover from what she saw in the restaurant reservation book. according to him A detail that follows the mother to this day..
As the children of the group who were on vacation slept for dinner, The parents asked to reserve the same table every dayfrom where you could see the rooms where the children were staying.
After Madeleine disappeared, Kate saw that the person in charge had written this information into the restaurant’s reservation book and, concluded that any staff member, or even the curious, could see the information and conclude that the children were in the room without adult supervision.
Katie’s conclusion is also included in the book she and her husband are signing: “Madeleine: The disappearance of our daughter and the ongoing search for her“. “To my horror I saw this, no doubt in all innocence and just to explain why she was breaking the rules a bit, the receptionist added the reason for our request: we wanted to eat near our apartments when leaving our young children alone and checking on them intermittently,” they wrote.
disastrous investigation
The second reason Madeleine’s parents believe their daughter has not yet been found is related to the police investigation that took place in the first few days after her disappearance.
The website the couple maintains posted that they are deeply saddened to have lost the legal battle against Portuguese police officer Gonçalo Amaral. According to the parents, the agent negatively influenced the investigation by claiming that it was a simulated crime and that the parents were the prime suspects.
“If the public believed that we were involved in her disappearance, people would ignore possible leads and would not be able to report relevant information to authorities. [policiais] relevant law enforcement agencies,” they wrote. (reported by NY Post)