Confession was a sham
Amigoe.com
02/04/2008
HILVERSUM/ORANJESTAD -- Joran van der Sloot said in the Dutch TV-program Pauw & Witteman that his ‘confession’, of which Peter R. de Vries has recordings, was made up. “I just told him what he wanted to hear”, said Joran. His Aruban lawyer, Ariean de Bie confirms the story: “He didn’t know that he was dealing with a so-called friend. The man spoke perfect Papiamento and is from Aruba. What he told him was rubbish.”
The whole day on Friday it looked like Natalee Holloway’s case was solved. Several media ‘disclosed’ little by little the ‘missing’ information that De Vries supposedly has and is going to show in his program on the Dutch commercial broadcast SBS6. Due to carnival and broadcasting rights, the images won’t be shown live in Aruba. However, NOS Journal may show sections of the broadcasting on BVN that same day.
It became clear yesterday that the infiltrator was an older man. “It was so foolish, so foolish”, said Joran about what he did. “What I have told him, is not correct. That is also easy to figure out.” He gave an unambiguous answer on how to do that. He also didn’t give an answer on why he lied again. “That’s something I also ask myself”, he said. “There is not one reason why you should believe me. I have just been tricked.”
LITTLE BOAT
In his ‘confession’ he had said that he made love to Natalee Holloway, who was probably under the influence of drugs, felt sick and died. Where the investigation closed last year with Joran saying that he left the girl alone on the beach, he now ‘confessed’ to the infiltrator that he had called a friend, who came to the disaster scene with a little boat. The friend had supposedly dumped the body of Holloway in sea. When he was asked who the friend is, he didn’t say that the person does not exist, as would be expected from a person that is innocent. He said that he can proof that he had met that friend after the disappearance of Natalee. He also said that he had recently talked to the ‘infiltrator-friend’ and the ‘boat-friend’.
All the possible telephone conversations that Joran had that evening, were traced to the last detail. Several jurists point out that such a confession without supplementary evidence – boat, friend, telephone conversations – does not solve the case. Peter R. de Vries has meanwhile reacted again saying that Joran’s explanation is ‘completely not impressive’. He was even less impressed with Jeroen Pauw and Paul Witteman’s interview with Joran. He says that the two presenters didn’t ask him critical questions. It seems like they were so pleased that he wanted to talk to them on the phone that out of modesty, they forgot that they are journalists.”
PRIMETIME
De Vries’ announcement that he has solved the case, caused a barrage of international media-attention. The American TV-station ABC has meanwhile bought the episode of De Vries’ program from producer Endemol, who has the broadcasting rights, and will broadcast it in primetime on Monday.
Several news-casts, including CNN mentioned Friday that the OM in Aruba has already arrested Joran van der Sloot. Report is in the Netherlands that Joran van der Sloot went into hiding and keeps all media far away from him since his telephone conversation with Pauw & Witteman.
Just hours after Joran van der Sloot mentioned to Paul and Witteman that his confession in the Holloway-case was a lie, a lot of American media, like Associated Press, CNN, International Herald Tribune and the TV-stations FoxNews and ABC News reported this new development, ‘Student denies involvement in Holloway-case’. ABC is going to dedicate 90 minutes to the last hours of the, at that time 18-year old Natalee Holloway in Aruba. Since the beginning of the disappearance-case in 2005, hundreds of articles about the American Holloway and Joran van der Sloot were published in the American media.
PROSECUTOR PARTS WITH DIRECTION
“Which prosecutor parts with the direction and four days later, allows a crime journalist to bring his ‘evidence’ into the open?” is Renée Gielen’s reaction. The TV- and documentary producer in Curacao has been following the Holloway-case from the beginning and has announced that she is making a documentary on one of the most talked-about disappearance cases ever.
“This same prosecutor (Hans Mos, red.) was not willing to listen to my findings. When last week Monday I called him for an appointment, he told me that ‘he is very busy finishing up a case and that he has no time; he was soon leaving for the Netherlands for a few weeks and that I had to call him at the end of February. He also told me that I have all sorts of theories and only his is the correct one’.
