Seven questions to the President of the Portuguese Bar, Mr. Rogério Alves

Mr. Rogério Alves (*): 1- Can you identify the person, company, institution or organization that is paying your fees or does your contract includes a confidentiality clause that doesn't allow you to reveal any detail about it? 2 – Can you tell how much are you being paid? 3 – Do you agree with Mr. Gerry McCann when he says that “Portuguese policemen are imbeciles”? 4 - Do you agree with Mr. Clarence Mitchell, the Press Officer of your clients, when he says that naming Mr. Gerry MCCann and his wife as formal suspects “is a travesty”? 5 - Do you agree with Mr. Clarence Mitchell, the Press Officer of your clients, when he says that Mr. Gerry MCCann and his wife were victims of a “heinous crime” when they were named formal suspects (“arguidos”)? 6 - Do you agree with Mrs. Kate McCann when she says that "Police don't want a murder in Portugal and all the publicity about them not having paedophile laws here, so they're blaming us?” 7 - Do you agree with Mrs. Kate McCann when she says that “the Portuguese police are running out of budget for this investigation and want it to end?”

(*) Hired, yesterday, by the McCann, to be part of their defence team of lawyers