Message from Gonçalo Amaral

As you can understand, I can't do any comment about the investigation on the "McCann Case"... (I have omitted the next part, in the interests of privacy but this did not in any way compromise the judicial secrecy laws)

Looking towards my freedom of speech, I asked for my retirement last month. All the insults, false accusations and lie's from the past year are now being brought to court from my lawyers (the very last one is from Daily Mail, yesterday).

I would like to say thank you to the thousands of persons that every day, for the last year, are supporting me all over the world. I would like to answer all the phone calls, emails and letters, but is not possible...there are so many! As you can imagine, most of the days are not that easy, and these messages have been a great support not only for me, but also for my family. Once again, thank you all!

You're allowed do display this message on you site, and I thank you for that. One last thing:

*Soon, very soon the world will know the "Truth about the Lie" and "we will gain truth and justice for a little girl who has no voice", dead on the evening of May 3rd at apartment 5A, Ocean Club, Praia da Luz, Algarve, Portugal"*

Best regards,
Gonçalo Amaral

I can assure everybody that this message is 100% genuine. I went through the official police channels and Mr Amaral replied via his personal email address (which I am not going to divulge!). I sent him my support and mentioned the site so that he could see I was genuine in pursuit of truth and justice for Madeleine.

Although he mentions in this email that I can use his comments on the site, I actually only posted the 'thank you' part of the email last night. I wanted to go back to him to ensure he was 100% sure that I could use ALL of the email on the site. He replied today in the affirmative.

I must admit I have wrestled with myself overnight and this morning, but when Mr Amaral replied, once again confirming that I could use all the message, I decided to publish it on the site.

The email is presented as I received it, written in English.