RSSAmigoe: Antillean House angry about brown Joran Van der Sloot (Opsporings Verzocht Re-enactment)
Amigoe, April 13, 2006: Antillean House angry about brown Joran
The controversy continues over the depiction of Joran Van der Sloot as a non-white in the Dutch program Opsporings Verzocht. The re-enactment of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has drawn some sharp criticism and it is not coming from the United States, it is from the Antilles.
“producers of the Dutch program Opsporings Verzocht of twisting the facts consciously and abundantly clear. ”
“By consciously twisting abundantly clear facts and misleading the public that are being asked for their cooperation in tracing perpetrators, the program departs from its purpose”
By using a brown actor it gives the impression that the producers have opted for highlighting what is already presented as stereotype criminal in the Netherlands.
And this is unjust.
However, the OM in Aruba has a perfectly understandable and reasonable answer to the controversy. This may be the comment of the week, if not the month:
The young man that acted Joran van der Sloot in the reconstruction yesterday has very light skin and considered white in Aruba, said the OM in a press report in Aruba.
Besides, no skin colour was considered during the selection. “It is not important for the investigation team what the colour of a person’s skin is, or how dark the person is.”
Government of the Netherlands Antilles Angered Over Non-White Actor Portraying Joran Van der Sloot
The investigation into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has been botched from the very beginning. Some say it was incompetence on the part of the Aruban authorities while others state it was an intentional cover up. Ten months later ‘Opsporing Verzocht,’ a Dutch version similar to America’s Most Wanted aired their version of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. With an issue so important to Aruba and the loss of tourism that it has ensued; we now have a new controversy brewing from last nights TV show.
The presentation of ‘Opsporing Verzocht’ was pretty much a fair depiction of accounts, but with one glaring problem. Since when was Joran Van der Sloot of color? This fact also seems not to be lost of the government of the Netherlands Antilles.
The government of the Netherlands Antilles has reacted angrily to the broadcast of a television appeal for information about the disappearance of American Natalee Holloway.
A non-white actor played the role of white Dutch teenager Joran van der Sloot, 18, in the re-enactment of the final hours prior to 18-year-old Holloway vanishing on the Dutch autonomous island of Aruba in the Caribbean.
(The real Joran Van der Sloot)
(The real Joran Van der Sloot)
(Actor,not the real Joran Van der Sloot)
(Also Actor, not the real Joran Van der Sloot)
Why would a Dutch TV program intentionally cast an actor who is non-white as Joran Van der Sloot? Especially since they went out of their way to make the actress who portrayed Natalee Holloway to look similar. Heck, they even impounded Deepak’s car for authenticity in the TV program. At this rate, Natalee Holloway should have been played by a 6 ft brunette. And Deepak’s car should have looked like this.
Dutch Version of Natalee Holloway Disappearance Reenactment Airs in Aruba (Opsporing Verzocht)
Last night the much awaited and publicized Dutch reenactment of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway aired in Aruba and Holland. Although it being done late in the game as Natalee Holloway has been missing for ten months; a general rule of thumb is what harm could such a program do? We had hoped that something like this would have been aired much sooner in this investigation and presented to the Dutch and Arubans in their native languages from the outset.
I think it would, the only problem is the delay in doing the entire thing, To put together an Aruban tape and Dutch tape to do a reenactment, then maybe that’s what it will take for somebody to do the right thing. It’s been over 10 months, the family has gone over everything, it comes to a point when somebody in Aruba says enough is enough, we’re tired of tourism going down and somebody will come forward.
(Court TV Interview; 04/05/2006 )
Beth Twitty had commented also that she thought the program ‘Opsporing Verzocht’ would be a positive.
“When I think about the viewers it will reach, I think it can be positive.”
Watch the video of reenactment from Opsporing Verzocht
It would appear following the Natalee Holloway reenactment many tips came in to the show including this one.
She did, however, learn something new by reading the show’s transcripts — an unidentified woman called the hotline after the show to report seeing four sweaty boys leaving the beach with a shovel the night Natalee disappeared.
“I think they’ve received less than 100 tips, but I’m hoping today maybe some more will be in,” Twitty said.
Dutch police receive 60 tips in Holloway TV program
Aruban Police Commissioner Adolf Richardson said his force was looking for more information about a man with glasses who is suspected of harassing another woman on the same beach where Holloway went missing nine days earlier.
“We have no concrete proof that this incident has any relation to Natalee’s disappearance, but we cannot completely disregard this either,” Richardson said.
The program also focused attention on the car driven by Van der Sloot’s friends, saying that information about where the gray Honda Civic was seen the night she disappeared – or not seen – would be relevant to their investigation.
The Dutch program also highlighted two anonymous tips police wanted more information on, including a woman who said she saw three or four boys with a shovel on the island’s north side on May 30; and a man who called several months later and said he knew Holloway had been buried.
(Daily Comet)
The Reenactment; Natalee Holloway Investigation
THE REENACTMENT
(Vanderbilt – ‘06)
Hope the reenactment folks are fortunate in selecting from the heap of conflicting lies.
Cannot wait to see which ‘wild story’ will make the final cut.
At least the car itself is honest in representing itself.
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Diario; Taping the ‘reenactment’ of Natalee’s case
Amigoe: Deepak’s Car confiscated for shootings
Diario: Holloway case in “OPSPORING VERZOCHT” program in Holland
Dutch TV version of America’s Most Wanted; Opsporing Verzocht to Re-enact Natalee’s Disappearance
Amigoe: Deepak does not get his car back (in Natalee Holloway reenactment)
Amigoe; April 3, 2006
It took how long for Deepak’s vehicle to be impounded and tested for DNA evidence at the outset of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway? Now Deepak’s car is confiscated for the reenactment of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Deepak Kalpoe and his attorney, David Kock, now have learned that Deepak will not get his car back until after it is used in the Opsporing Verzocht reenactment of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
The examining-magistrate decided in a lawsuit instituted by Kalpoe’s lawyer David Kock that the confiscation is not illegal, because the shootings for Opsporing Verzocht are of relevance to the investigation on the disappeared Natalee Holloway.
If this is the case, wouldn’t the complete search of the Van der Sloot property have the same relevance?
Deepak does not get his car back
ARUBA — Deepak Kalpoe’s car will not be returned to him until Monday. The examining-magistrate decided in a lawsuit instituted by Kalpoe’s lawyer David Kock that the confiscation is not illegal, because the shootings for Opsporing Verzocht are of relevance to the investigation on the disappeared Natalee Holloway. The car, a grey Honda Civic was confiscated by the Public Prosecutor last Thursday afternoon. Their motivation to do this is that the program must reproduce the situation as real as possible. The program Opsporing Verzocht with the Holloway-case will be transmitted on Tuesday, April 11th.
(Dutch version)
