Daily Mail Headline; says: ' Police are investigating a possible sighting of Madeleine McCann being bundled into a car in Spain. Two witnesses told detectives they are "certain" they saw the missing four-year-old with a man acting strangely at a petrol station on Tuesday afternoon. Earlier this week Kate and Gerry McCann said they believe their daughter could be alive and being held in Spain.
The two women witnesses told police they saw a well-built man shoving a little girl into a dark green Citroen ZX hatchback by the car wash at a service station near Cartagena, on the south east coast. The man pushed her down onto the car seat when he realised he was being watched, they said. One of the witnesses told officers: "The man was holding the girl by the hand, but when he saw us watching him, he picked her up by her head, pushed her into the seat to hide her, and sped off as fast as he could in the car."
The man was described as 5ft 9in tall man with chestnut coloured hair and dark brown eyes, wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and "pirate-style" trousers. The two Spanish women reported the incident at the Civil Guard headquarters in Cartagena at 7.45pm on Tuesday. And detectives have twice visited the Shell gas station on the N332. All officers in the area have been given a description of the possible abductor and the car and have stepped up their patrols, local media reported. A spokesman for the Spanish government's office in the province of Murcia said today/yesterday(THURS): "Two Spanish women presented themselves at the Civil Guard office in Cartagena to say they were certain they had seen Madeleine in a car at a service station.
**Update 9:10am 24th August 2007 NZ**
I'm currently on 'muse' mode with regard to these recent claims of sightings in Spain. At first glance they seem too convenient. Too contrived. Especially in the light of the recent media statements made by the McCanns. The 'jury is out' at the moment ... musing over the evidence so to speak. My insight views the image like a soaring Hawk would gaze down on its prey from a great height with its piercing eyes. In this state awareness gleans that the mists of concealment have thinned and almost cleared. There is an improved sight of the roadway down below. All the worker ants appear to be gathering now in a spot away from the barrier wall. The object seems like sweetmeal to draw to it all those workers. They appear to carry titbits of communication towards their 'queen'. A flurry of activity clearly outside of the wall with little concealment. Is this a contrived situation? A deliberate act like a decoy? Or is it something very much more real than coverage in recent times? The McCanns trip to Spain at the beginning of August is nagging now in the back of my mind. Plus the claims in recent weeks by Gerry that they know something which they cannot reveal. These snippets of information are being dispensed by my logical mind ... it is not as easy to dismiss these recent news stories as Wild Geese. Unless now they have become mere red herrings ... which means the red herring may well be in the same stream in which the young Salmon currently resides ... perhaps the young Salmon has almost made its trip now upstream ... and this is the trail on which we now are permitted to wander along. All symbolic of course?
