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I've just read the sections from the first four chapters and as someone who remains totally open minded about this, I don't find anything that makes you sit up and say "wtf?" Perhaps if I was convinced it was the parents I'd be clinging to his every word and every suspicion but you shouldn't make accusations based on a hunch.
From what I've read, it sounds like the Portuguese cop is trying to raise suspicion of a media and British police conspiracy.

Are we meant to be alarmed that some of the first words Kate said were, "Madeleine's been abducted". I once lost my three year old in M&S and the first thing that came to my then hysterical mind was, "he's been abducted", because as a parent, we are programmed to think the worst.