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Originally Posted by Chris T
... and the Portuguese legal status of 'Arguido' doesn't make them guilty either.
I'm staggered that after so long, so many people on this side of the Channel seem unwilling or unable to take on board the simple fact that the Portuguese have a judicial, inquisitorial system that is different to ours, with different checks and balances built in.
Far too many column inches (and forum posts) have been made out of this.
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Chris, no one here is saying they are definately guilty. People are saying it could be. They are suspects, and the police are treating them as such. No one knows for a fact if the police are looking at them as 'real' suspects.
As for your comments regarding people on this side of teh Channel, you should see what is being written about them in Portugal, and what the Portuguese actually thing of them. I'd assume that they know the technocalities of the Arguido system (in fact the entire legal process) a lot better than us, and its still not stopping them thinking the McGanns have had a large part to play in Maddie's dissappearance.