This is a transcript of a comment on Portuguese TV which gives one reporter's take on the British presence. From the well respected Eduardo Cintra Torres [ECT] -
"That gentleman from the Scotland Yard (Officer Redwood) that appears there [in the video inset they are showing and debating about Redwood's visit to Algarve] - it's actually a pity that we don't have a psychologist here to make his profile, not of Maddie's or of the “assassins”, but of that Scotland Yard gentleman. I look at him and I just think: “this man just wants to appear on TV”. With so many disappearances of children in England... did he choose the Maddie case because he would appear on TV? And they went beyond, now they've come to Portugal to investigate. Why is the Portuguese police being subservient to this mockery, to this televised show off - we had aerial searches in Lagos seven years later! Aerial searches! We need to ask, what exactly is going on?! This is the utmost ridiculous thing, a show off, something just to appear on TV. And then they're going to open holes, searching for, eventually, the child's body at the 25 de Abril street? Was it for this that we had the 25 de Abril Revolution?
João Ferreira (CMTV news anchor) - The opening of the case by the British authorities was done taking into account the media coverage?
ECT - Absolutely, that police officer from the Scotland Yard in particular pursues media coverage. I believe that is a shame for the Portuguese state to allow the mediatization of an investigation that belongs to the Portuguese and not to the English. If we tried to do the same in England, would they allow it? Obviously not.
JF - They were authorized by the Attorney General's Office...
ECT - Of course, it's the old alliance issue.
JF - Thank you, Eduardo."
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