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By Dan Riehl
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (Crime Library) —
These statements, if any are authentic, were most likely obtained inappropriately and illegally, possibly through corruption or incompetence within the Aruban police force. They would have never been officially released if they were authentic. One source on Aruba did state months ago that Jossy Mansur had inappropriate access to the entire police file resulting from his role with Diario.
In any case, none of the documents containing alleged statements of the suspects are fully legitimate, or would serve as evidence before a court. Some may have been manufactured out of whole cloth for all anyone knows. At best they are said to be interrogation tools, which would explain why some are said to be signed by the detectives, though none are signed by Joran or any of the other suspects. In fact, it's unclear that any of these alleged documents were legitimately signed by anyone.
Supposedly, interrogators fashioned scenarios and cross examined the suspect for hours trying to get him to confess to different versions of the crime: Joran did it; Deepak did it; we did it at the house; or on the beach; she was unconscious; this happened in the car, etc. Who knows? Each one was typed up or written, some perhaps signed by interrogators, and placed in front of a young suspect to sign after hours of intense interrogation so everyone could go home.
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| Joran Van der Sloot |
Apparently none were ever signed by Joran or the Kalpoe brothers, but that did not stop these hypothetical scenarios from being trumpeted nightly on cable TV as the actual statements regarding primary suspect Joran Van der Sloot.
It could be said that Mansur was trying to embarrass Dutch authorities, perhaps to hurt their chances in an upcoming election, which eventually saw the party he and his paper supported trounced. It's rumored that he may have also wanted to extract revenge through a Dutch family, the father of which was a minor player in the justice ministry. The justice ministry previously took the unprecedented step of allowing the extradition of members of the Mansur family to U.S. jurisdiction on money laundering charges.
One thing is clear: the many unsubstantiated allegations in the Aruban tabloid that Mansur owned and operated, in addition to statements Mansur made on American television to attempt to authenticate the allegations, did embarrass the Dutch authorities and a member of their justice ministry. Whether or not this was part of a deliberate agenda on the part of Jossy Mansur is difficult to confirm. Perhaps it was just a shrewd newspaper man knowing how to market his tabloid.
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