Paul van der Sloot: He was, at that moment, again, not at home
without me knowing it. Then, I called Joran on his mobile phone, and then he
said that he was by the Wyndam. That is also a casino here in the neighborhood.
Then, we drove there immediately, but he had, he said that he had misunderstood
me, because he came home already. So, then all of us went back home, and around
three, with quite a group, we spoke with Joran that night.
Reporter (Twan Huys):
How did that conversation go?
Paul van der Sloot:
Understandably, these people were quite excited [3]. I tried to calm these
people down as much as possible. I also said to Joran, he has to direct himself
as much as possible to the police officers and not to the people of whom it was
uncertain what their status was.
Reporter (Twan Huys):
You didn't want him to let himself be interrogated, or maybe started saying
things that were not right to total strangers?
Paul van der Sloot:
Yes, I think, anyway it was, for me, more trusting, if he would direct himself
to the police officers.
Reporter (Twan Huys):
Did it become clear for you what happened that night, with Joran in relation to
Natalee?
Paul van der Sloot:
Yes, that became clear to me.
Reporter (Twan Huys):
Which story did he tell you then?
Paul van der Sloot:
That he initially met her earlier that day in the Holiday Inn casino, where he
was, as well, to play a free tournament. That, then it was agreed to meet in
Carlos and Charlie’s. That, he initially did not want that, but that he went
there anyway, and that he met her there, in Carlos and Charlie’s. That, then,
with his two friends, Deepak and Satish, drove around a bit with her around the
island, that they were making out [4] some on the back seat and that in the end
he dropped her off at the
Reporter (Twan Huys):
And you thought, "This is it, now it is done."
Paul van der Sloot:
Yes, I continued to believe in that story. I had never, all these days after,
received a clue that it would be incorrect.
Reporter (Twan Huys):
When did you find out that it was, nevertheless, different than how it was told
by your son in the first place?
Paul van der Sloot:
He was arrested and then he changed his declaration.
Host ( Jeroen Pauw):
Ok, Twan, so there are different declarations. What did Joran say in his second
declaration?
Reporter (Twan Huys):
Very simple, Jeroen, in his first declaration, he has said that, indeed, that
he went, together with his two friends and Natalee, to the beach and that, that
night, deep in the night, actually in the morning, all of them went back to the
Holiday Inn hotel, where she was staying, and dropped her off there. That story
is incorrect. That story, as told, has been retracted by Joran and also by his
both friends, who are also still stuck [in jail]. He did that as soon as he was
arrested and was interrogated by the police. He also never told the story as he
told to the police to his parents. His declaration now is that he left Natalee
alone on the beach, and then went home by himself, and that his two friends
were nowhere near that. That is the second version, and until now Joran holds
on to that, under severe police interrogation.