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Originally Posted by Chris T
And we return again to the issue of Portuguese law - if the police had been pursuing the McCanns with the same intensity as they have Robert Murat, whay have the McCanns not yet been declared official suspects?
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As I said above, why would they do that when they don't have to? See
here for some comments from a Portuguese lawyer on the subject:
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Mr Rego said: "Sometimes when they (the police) suspect someone, they call that person in as a witness.
"They don't constitute him as arguido and they extract as much information from him as they can, because as a witness he cannot refuse to collaborate with the police.
"Now the moment he is constituted as arguido, as the defendant, then he can not only refuse to answer questions because they can incriminate him, but also he has the right to be accompanied in the questionings by his own solicitor."
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The police don't have to name anyone as arguido unless they want to arrest them or the individual requests it.