Telegraaf colleagues or not: Valentijn Driessen honestly gives his opinion about the bizarre Joran van der Sloot-hug by John van den Heuvel. Wilfred Genee can learn something from that …
John van den Heuvel is taken under fire from all sides. This time it has nothing to do with Gordon, but with murderer Joran van der Sloot. The crime journalist is hugging that horror knick. He is so hard, he is so sorry, he didn’t mean it all that way. And now he is also playing Jorans Crimikas.
John under fire
It seemed like a good idea to write the preface of Joran’s new book for promotion. Did he impose conditions on that? For example, that the first 25,000 euros from the proceeds to the surviving relatives of Natalee Holloway would go for that amount? No. Apparently a friend’s service for a murderer.
The crime journalist was sitting at the Renze Klamer talk show table last night and was taken under fire, and at the same time he was also strongly criticized in today. Not only by Johan Derksen, but also by his direct Telegraaf colleague Valentijn Driessen. And that is salient.
Bad
Johan Derksen can’t believe it. “I think it’s very bad,” he says in Today Inside. “John has the frustration that he always remains a Peter R. de Vries Light, huh, and Peter R. de Vries has made a lot of effort around that Joran van der Sloot and now he is going to make purely advertising for a book of a multiple murderer. ”
“That story in De Telegraaf was just an advertisement. An advertiser must pay a capacity for this. Then I think: you don’t do that in his position. He has something to criticize and one of the most horrible murderers in our country, he goes … “For he is in such a nasty prison.” Well, he can stay there for the rest of his life. “
Wilfred in De Bres
Wilfred Genee jumps in the breach for John, pure and just because they are friends, because this business naturally stinks at all sides. “Yes, but he has been writing about him since 2010, isn’t it?”
Johan: “Yes, yes, but I know: it’s a friend of yours.”
Wilfred: “Yes, I know you’re always going to get there, but Henk Kuipers is a friend of yours, so how objective are we all?”
Johan: “You don’t want to compare Henk Kuipers with a multiple murderer?”
Less objective
Wilfred only wants to say that it makes sense that he saves John and is therefore not spiritually independent. “I want to indicate: if you have friends you are a little less objective.”
Johan: “Yes, but then you have to keep yourself outside the discussion. I think it is a scandalous move from him and I don’t understand that both De Telegraaf and the TV have paid attention to it. “
Wilfred: “I don’t deserve it, so in that respect …”
Valentine Critical
Valentijn Driessen, direct colleague of John at De Telegraaf, is healthy critical. “Yes, but that boy will earn it when he sells that book, and that is of course sold because it will be on TV or because John comes on TV. I would never have done it either. “
Wilfred: “But you are colleagues of each other?”
Reprehensible
That’s right, but Valentine is not like Wilfred. “Yes, but I also find it morally reprehensible to do, in order to work with a murderer, even if you have known him for twenty or fifteen years. I would never do it either. You don’t have to write a preface. “
Finally, René van der Gijp: “Yes, no, I have nothing to do with that. It is indeed just a madman that guy. That Joran is an idiot. “