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| Missing British girl sighted twice in Morocco: reports |
| 2007-09-23 |
| LONDON (AFP) - Missing British girl Madeleine McCann was reported seen in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh by two unrelated witnesses days after she disappeared in Portugal, newspapers reported Sunday. A British man has told police he is certain that a little girl he saw in the lobby of the Ibis hotel in Marrakesh was McCann, who vanished days earlier from the family's hotel apartment in the Algarve on May 3, The Sunday Express said. He contacted police after he flew home to Britain and saw news reports of her abduction, it said. The Moroccan secret police took his report seriously because witness Marie Pollard, a Norwegian woman who returned to Spain, reported seeing her a few hundred yards away at the Afriquia petrol station, the newspaper said. Pollard, according to the newspaper, said the girl, who was with a man, looked sad and said to him in good English: "Can I see mummy soon?" It said both witnesses were guests at the hotel but there is no connection between Pollard and the man who was described only as from Yorkshire. The sightings prompted a massive police operation in Morocco that is continuing on a smaller scale. It said Pollard's report had been made public, but not the man's. The four-year-old girl's parents Gerry and Kate McCann were shown a video of one of the interviews by the Moroccans, the paper said. "She seems very credible," Gerry was quoted as saying. The McCanns visited Morocco in June. The News of The World newspaper gave a similar account, specifying that both witnesses reported seeing Madeleine on May 9 in the same area of Marrakesh at around the same time of day. "The significance of this (second) sighting is that it was reported at the same time as the one by the Norwegian woman," a source close to the family was quoted as saying. "This shows the person did not come forward as a result of publicity about the Norwegian witness, but is entirely independent." Sightings of the girl have also been reported in European countries, including Belgium, the Greek island of Crete and Malta. Initially the case appeared to focus on an alleged abduction but Gerry and Kate McCann were named earlier this month as formal suspects by Portuguese police. According to the family, Portuguese police suspect Kate McCann was involved in the accidental death of her daughter and both parents then tried to cover it up. The McCanns strongly deny any role in Madeleine's disappearance. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #1 With perhaps the only unique physical attribute of a "Cat Eye", right eye, you would think alot of those uncertain sightings would be nailed down a bit! |
| Posted by: smn 2007-09-23 20:03 |