Diário de Notícias - 7/1/2008
The priest of Luz wants distance from the McCanns
JOSÉ MANUEL OLIVEIRA
Kate's Christmas messages bothered the priest
After having provided "spiritual and moral support" for four months to the parents of Madeleine McCann, particularly with vigils of prayer, following the disappearance of the child in Praia da Luz (Lagos), May 3, 2007, the Catholic priest José Pacheco cannot hear talking now about case and the couple, even to the point of having been "troubled" with Christmas messages sent by mobile phone by Kate McCann, the mother of British child disappeared from the Ocean Club, discovered the DN.
"I want the greatest distance in relation to the McCanns," have said in a laconic way the priest to several friends. "The priest Pacheco can't even hear about Madeleine's case, he gets immediately irritated when someone or even his friends,talk about it and he seeks immediately to divert the course of the conversation," told to the DN popular of Praia da Luz. Because in the face of all the media that he was involved due to the disappearance of Maddie, namely with the controversial lending of the key of the Church of Our Lady of Light so the McCanns could pray in private, the priest is "very annoyed and quite saturated with the speculation on the matter and he believes that the family only brought problems to him. " But, according to the same sources, the priest "ensures he has never heard the girl's parents in confession." The priest "even stopped attending some locations, such as cafes, which were part of his daily routine, and he does not want to hear talking about journalists," added one of the popular, to whom José Pacheco is, above all, "an excellent priest and an excellent person. "
The findings in the Church
The ambiance of tension around the area of the church increased after the British sniffer dogs specialised in detecting corpses odours marked, in the Summer of 2007, the exterior zone of the church as one of the places where supposedly the body of Maddie could have passed through. What happened after the investigators had strengthened the thesis of the death of the child in apartment 5A of the resort where the McCanns spent holidays in Praia da Luz.
Last November, with the utmost discretion and only to try to dissipate doubts, the Judicial police decided to pass through the fine comb the nooks and the interior of the church as well as the surrounding areas, particularly the old cemetery now transformed into a garden area, in an attempt to follow clues related to a possible concealment of the body of Madeleine McCann.
Meanwhile, inspectors of Judicial police already heard informally at least twice, the priest José Pacheco, which ensures he does not know what happened to the most searched child in the world. http://dn.sapo.pt/2008/01/07/s....._casa.html |