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Article: Media and police collide on the Algarve ; REPORTING ++ THE SEARCH FOR MADELEINE ++ British journalists have been baffled by the Portuguese police in the search for Madeleine McCann, and vice versa. Has the press been a help or a hindrance? Ian Herbert investigates
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2007
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The Madeleine McCann case has created some surprises for
Inspector Oligario Sousa, the public face of the Portuguese police
inquiry, whose eccentric press conferences have become required
viewing for those who hang on the inquiry's every twist and turn.
The difficulties of handing out a press statement is one of them.
"You are not a child. If you don't stop I will not give it," the
schoolmasterly Mr Sousa says on Thursday evening as journalists
jostle for one of 30 he dishes out ahead of what is, in the loosest
sense of the word, a briefing. There are no new facts in the
statement (Mr Sousa doesn't seem to think his appearances
necessarily warrant any) but ITN's Geraint Vincent tears his ...
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