In Holland, pressure on Joran is great
DIARIO Aruba
02/06/2008

ORANJESTAD(AAN): The pressure on Joran van der Sloot in Holland to turn himself in is great. In Holland, people want him to turn himself in and everyone believes that he is involved in the case and is guilty of the death and disappearance of the body of Natalee Holloway.

Nobody believes that he made these statements as a game [joke] and they believe that he spoke the truth.

How is it possible that a person hangs himself knowing that he is placing himself in a problematic situation and he is being looked out as a suspect in the case of Natalee Holloway.

This same week, the Public Ministry in Aruba by way of a 'rechtshulpverzoek' (legal advice request) let the KLPD in Holland hold a huiszoeking (search) in Joran’s Arnhem home as well as the grandmother’s house in Drachten where he went to hide.

As DIARIO reported Tuesday, a group of people in Holland who are unhappy with Joran’s behaviour went to his house in Arnhem and also at his grandmother’s house in Drachten to look for him.

This was not with very good intentions and in Drachten things got a bit out of hand where police assistance was requested. At the grandmother’s house, they put surveillance by a private security firm. There were death threats against Joran.

Over the weekend, the Public Ministry in Aruba advised Joran’s parents to look for another place to stay and to not remain in their Montaña house in Noord. This advice also went towards Joran because the Public Ministry believed that it was certain that after the recording where Joran made his declaration people could react emotionally.

Joran’s attorney in Holland, mr. Bert de Rooij, said that his client is willing to give a new declaration to authorities in Holland. In Holland, Joran is already crucified and even authorities no longer believe in him because it is certain that he will talk himself out of any culpability. Joran is a pathological liar, but now he has closed the web around him and no longer has an escape.

The Public Ministry along with the rest of the world also believes that Joran’s statements to Patrick van der Eem are the truth.

The manner in which he gave certain details fit with the last pieces that police needed. It is surely because according to police analysis of the interrogations there is a period of 40 to 50 minutes that are unaccounted for and this fits with the time that he used to go call a person and get to sea to throw Natalee’s body at sea. Whether this was done with Daury Rodriguez or whether there was one or more people who helped him.

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