Lisbon - Goncalo Amaral, coordinator of the investigation on the Madeleine McCann case, expressed sharp criticism of the girl's parents and British police on Tuesday. "British police have only worked on what the McCann couple finds suits them," Amaral told the daily Diario de Noticias.
The investigator was commenting on British reports on an e-mail sent to Prince Charles and alleging that the four-year-old had been abducted by a former employee of the Ocean Club holiday apartments in an act of vengeance for being fired.
Madeleine McCann disappeared from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal, on May 3.
The e-mail had "no credibility whatsoever for Portuguese police," Amaral said.
British police kept investigating developments "created and worked over by the McCanns, forgetting that the couple is suspect in the death of their daughter Madeleine," he added.
"This story of abduction for vengeance is another fact worked over by the McCanns," the investigator charged.
"Ocean Club is in Praia da Luz and not in London," and Portuguese police had investigated or would investigate any leads concerning employees there, Amaral said.
An anonymous e-mail "of which it is easy to know where it came from" would not "distract our line of investigation," he added.
Amaral's statements followed those of Carlos Anjos, representative of the police trade union Asfic, who accused the McCanns of "daily announcing new facts" to distract investigators.
The McCanns had mounted a "campaign to discredit Portuguese police" after the latter suggested that Madeleine may have died in the apartment instead of being abducted, Anjos added.
Generally over the past few weeks, Portuguese police have kept silent over the investigation after Olegario Sousa stepped down as spokesman for the case.
