DIARIO Editorial
Joran: a veritable factory of lies
03/06/2006

I don’t know if Joran is guilty or innocent of what happened to Natalee Holloway, but there is one thing that I have no doubt about: he is a machine who fabricates lies. And another thing I’ve convinced of is that ‘experts’ on Greta Van Susteren’s show have a habit of talking for the sake of it, because none of them made the necessary effort to bring forth comparative and valid points. For instance:

1. Joran declared that Deepak and Satish dropped him and Natalee on the beach and then they (D&S) went home, because he called them afterwards on cell phone for one of them to go pick him up, and none of them wanted to. Both Kalpoes stand behind what they said that none of them went to pick up Joran at the beach! And Joran says the contrary! Who then went to pick him up in the wee hours of the morning to take him home?

2. Now, if the ‘experts’ put the contradictory declarations between the 3 suspects next to the declaration of Joran to 4 police officials on the 13th of June that Deepak went back to the beach, approached the girl and that he believes that he raped and killed Natalee, they have to conclude that Joran is lying greatly and trying to shift the blame onto Deepak.

In my opinion, this movement is an essential part of his strategy, and a fundamental reason (besides the money) for the interviews he is giving. His fear of the truth emerging (of the localization of Natalee’s remains) is forcing him every time to divert attention from him again and again, and sending it directly towards Deepak.

3. The interview with “A Current Affair”. Why would Joran give a series of interviews to radio and television repeating the same lies? Because he lives with the fear that the truth will emerge and that with or without concrete evidence, everyone will point the finger towards him as the guilty party of whatever happened to Natalee.

He, himself, clearly said in an interview on Nov. 26 2005 ‘my worst nightmare is that something bad happened to Natalee and everyone will blame me. It could be Deepak, or Satish…’ This is twice that he wants to shift the attention directly towards Deepak!

Whether Deepak is guilty or innocent, I don’t know that either, but Joran is insisting more and more to incriminate him of whatever could have happened to Natalee! And until now, we have not heard Deepak defend himself publicly of Joran’s insinuations! This also forces us to ask: Why?

Another remarkable thing is that one day Steve Croes (the DJ) is Deepak’s friend, and another day, he doesn’t know him! Joran said that he doesn’t know who is Steve and that he had no sort of friendship with him and that it was Deepak who came with him to give his false testimony that they dropped off Natalee at the Holiday Inn, incriminating the two security guards unnecessarily. And so the lies and contradictions continue to turn like a tombola in all his interviews.

Personally, none of the declarations that Joran is now making on television and radio has convinced me that he doesn’t know what happened to Natalee.

According to the testimony and evidence that I know of so far, Joran is the last person who was in Natalee’s company the day she mysteriously disappeared.
And Joran confirmed ‘On the Record’ that he doesn’t believe Natalee is alive. That is to say, that he is also convinced that the girl is dead. Because, he always insisted that he left her sleeping on the beach? How does he now believe that she is dead? Because he told the 4 police officials on the beach that Deepak went back to the girl and that he believes Deepak raped and killed Natalee? If he expressed his thoughts on the 13th of June, how is it that now (8 months later) he comes back to confirm publicly his suspicion that Natalee could be dead?

What’s now missing is an interviewer who knows all the details of the case very well, who is aware of all the declarations of Joran, Deepak, and Satish to the Aruba Police, who knows Joran’s background since he was 10 years old, and knows his sociological profile, to ask him cardinal questions that neither Current Affair, nor Nova, nor ABC, nor Greta were able to ask.

Despite the multiplication of his lies, he was able to handle the interviewers how he wanted, because he has the ability to look the interviewer in the face and without flinching, lie how he deems fit! Greta disappointed me in the fact that she didn’t ask any (follow up ) questions about superficial and well rehearsed answers from Joran, because Greta has done a magnificent job until now of delving deeply in the facts surrounding the disappearance of Natalee.

Again, I am not accusing Joran of nothing other than being a chronic, habitual and pathetic liar. Because he admitted openly of lying does not excuse the duty to reveal the truth that he continues to hide in his box of secrets.

He knows much more than he wants to admit and none of the interviewers has the necessary ability to rip the truth away from him. It could be that he didn’t admit anything to any interviewer, but I noted the absence of an insistent and legitimate effort to arrive at the truth on the part of all interviewers that I’ve seen sit in front of Joran, who gave the impression that he is behind the wheel, that he is the captain who is in charge of the ship, not the interviewer!

Innocent or guilty? This will come forward soon. Meanwhile, his factory of lies continues to produce his harvest of lies, one on top of the other, and was able to create by himself a mountain of lies higher than Hooiberg!