3.11.2006

Now it’s Mariaine Croes who is heading the Natalee Holloway case
Gerold Dompig left for Holland along with Public Prosecutor’s PR (public rep)
DIARIO Aruba
3/11/2006

ORANJESTAD (AAN): Information we have received indicates that this weekend, Gerold Dompig along with the public representative from the Public Prosecutor, Mariaine Croes left for Holland.

The reason is the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway where they will go look for and bring some data that finally Holland will send a Dutch ground with some more specialized dogs than Equusearch has to Aruba to look for some trace of the body of Natalee Holloway.

This means that police believe that Natalee Holloway died in Aruba.

The question arises as to what exactly the reason is for Mariaine Croes’s travels.
Although not official, we have found out that Mariaine Croes will head the group that left for Holland and likewise will give information and attend all meetings in this case along with Commissioner Gerold Dompig.

This is strange because the chief prosecutor is the one who heads the case, and perhaps if the chief prosecutor could not go, the attorney general could go in her place.

However, the mother found that her daughter would represent the public prosecutor better than the chief prosecutor, and then Mariaine Croes is the one who will go to Holland.

There are times where you hear comments on the street that the public prosecutor is being directed by a mother with children is more reason to give those who think this good reason.

Perhaps this will not be the reason, if they take us to court again, but what else to think?

We will remain aware of what comes out of this and when this delegation comes back from Holland, see what the results of this meeting were.

3.09.2006




Superior Court rejects attorney Carlo’s demand

Penal investigation against Joran van der Sloot is not closed
Bon Dia Aruba
3/9/2006



ORANJESTAD – Last Monday, attorney Carlo started a case in which he asked the Superior Court to close the penal case against his client, Joran van der Sloot.


For this case, a judge from Curaçao traveled to Aruba, in which Mr. Carlo as well as the representative of the Public Prosecutor widely debated in court. Treatment of the case took place behind closed doors, which made it difficult for Bon Dia Aruba to cover it. However, an investigation conducted by Bon Dia Aruba shows that Mr. Carlo, among other facts that there is no new developments in the investigation, argued that they have to close the penal investigation against Joran van der Sloot.

Tuesday, the Superior Court handed down the sentence in Curaçao and yesterday, the verdict was finally known. Bond Dia Aruba has understood that the Superior Court denied Mr. Carlo’s demand. This means that the Superior Court is not closing the penal investigation against Joran van der Sloot.
Judge denies attorney Carlo’s request to declare Joran van der Sloot no longer a suspect
DIARIO Aruba
3/9/2006

ORANJESTAD (AAN): Wednesday, the judge’s decision became known, in the case which attorney Carlo brought forward, representing Joran van der Sloot.

Attorney Antony Carlo started a case a few weeks back, to request that the Public Prosecutor declare that his client Joran van der Sloot is officially no longer a suspect in the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, or to instruct the Public Prosecutor to set a period of time within which they have to start a case against his client.

Both petitions were denied by judge Smid of Curaçao.

3.08.2006

Holland will also air Joran’s interview with ABC
This will be on SBS
DIARIO Aruba
3/8/2006

ORANJESTAD (AAN): After Joran van der Sloot going on American TV and giving interviews to ABC and FOX News Channel, he went on a radio station in Aruba, where the people got the opportunity to call in and ask a few questions.

Joran expressed that he decided to talk because he was tired of hearing that he was a rapist and a murderer, while the American media, along with Beth Twitty, were also accusing Aruba, for the whole matter surrounding the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

After the start of the case, it was difficult to find information about what the suspects would be saying or not saying, now only one of the suspects is talking.

Despite that Joran in the first instance did not show much interest in doing interviews in Dutch TV, because in Holland he was not bothered and was practically not recognized, now, after he did an interview with NOVA, the interview he did with ABC will be aired on the Commercial Dutch Channel SBS.

In the program ‘Show Nieuws’, they will air his interview on ABC in two parts, on Thursday and Friday.

Given that Joran van der Sloot said that the young Surinamese brothers are still lying about him, two questions are raised.

The first question is, when will the Surinamese youth come forward and tell their side if the story; while the other question is, if none of the three youngsters have anything to do with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, why lie now?

Whether it be Joran who is lying or the Kalpoe youngsters, people are asking themselves whether the Public Prosecutor will soon ask that they be interrogated again.

3.06.2006

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!