There are two very different views of what happened to Madeleine. There is a book written by Goncalo Amaral, the Portugueses police lead investigator and he has written the book, The Truth of the Lie, to defend the actions of the police and particulary himself because he felt like he was never given the chance to explain why the police did what they did. Kate McCann wrote a 500 page book was written to defend themselves from all the accusations that came from the Portuguese police. It was early on in the process that the Portuguese police became suspicious of the parents and part of the conflict is attributable to the differences in the two cultures. The British approach and the Portuguese approach are tie to their cultures. There is also a language barrier that further contributes to the chasm between the two. From the very beginning there was a conflict between the parents and the police. The Portuguese police were incensed by the treatment that they got from the British police and politicians. They felt like they were being left out and were being treated as if they were a third world police force. Here again you can sense the cultural differences. The police were also shocked at the level of political involvement and the massive amount of press that descended on Praia de Luz. The police also became more suspicious as the McCanns hired a press consultant to handle their interaction with the press. From the beginning the Portuguese police noticed many inconsistencies in the reports and interviews of the McCanns and all the friends they were traveling with. The McCanns panicked and called everyone they knew. The police, on the other hand, never panic because they know that there are many things that could have happened, one being, that Madeleine wandered off and was not abducted. The McCanns jumped to that conclusion without much consideration.....another suspicious action according to the police. Goncalo retires, or is forced out, much to the pressure put on the Portuguese government by the British government. He has been a policeman for 26 years and resents what happened to him. The events immediately following the disappearance of Madeleine demonstrate that the McCanns and friends took control and the police never had control, meaning that the "crime" scene was destroyed by all the people that trampled through it during the panic right after Madeleine was discovered missing.