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Portimao: The Portuguese police inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was condemned in the strongest terms by the country's public prosecutors, new documents revealed on Tuesday.
Detectives were criticised for establishing "no element of proof" about what happened to Madeleine or even whether she was alive or dead.
Public prosecutors in Portimao overseeing the case said that none of the reasons her parents Gerry and Kate McCann were made official suspects, or "arguidos", were ever "confirmed or consolidated."
Detectives were even compared unfavourably with fictional sleuths Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot as they were lambasted for achieving "very little in terms of conclusive results."
Police tactics were revealed in a 20,000-page "Madeleine File," detailing all aspects of the 14-month investigation made public Monday.
Madeleine, 3, vanished from her family's holiday apartment at Praia da Luz on 3 May last year. The police file included pictures of the room and Madeleine's bed. Her parents are now likely to take legal action against police in the country.
The case was initially led by top investigator Goncalo Amaral, who last month published a book on the investigation entitled Maddie: The Truth About The Lie.
The huge police dossier contained a report by public prosecutors Joao Melchior Gomes and Jose de Magalhaes e Menezes about why the couple were not charged with any offence.
The report refers to the "objective circumstances" which justify the "non-involvement of the parents of Madeleine in any relevant criminal act."
It said they were not in the apartment when Madeleine disappeared and noted their "normal behaviour adopted before the disappearance and afterwards."
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