John van den Heuvel has been tackled pretty hard in the talk show of Renze Klamer, because he helps to play the greenhouse of murderer Joran van der Sloot. “You don’t have to help him, do you?”
The appearance of John van den Heuvel is seriously at stake. After that weird stuff with that soap from Gordon – really never understood why he produces that weird, negative soap over him – he is now under fire because of a bizarre collaboration with Joran van der Sloot. He has written the preface of the new book by the murderer.
Large sticker
Renze Klamer does not let John get away with it. He brings out the book as the crime journalist last night In his talk show sit. “I thought for a moment: isn’t it?! With a preface from John van den Heuvel? ”
John: “That sounds like you are surprised.”
Renze: “Yes, I thought: why does he do that? That is a big sticker that is intended for sale and he has often said in the past that he mainly tried to earn money with those interviews. “
Twenty years old
John does not know how to explain why he supports Joran. He always shouts that the poor boy reminds, that the poor boy is in such a heavy prison and that the poor boy now tells the truth. Why the Telegraaf star has been taken over by the murderer in this way is unclear, but it does not make him more credible.
How does John talk from this? “The publisher came up with the request:” Do you want to write the preface for this, to also explain him and not only let him speak? ” And I did. I have no other business interests with that. Many crime books are written and sometimes I sometimes write a preface for that. ”
Extra authority
Renze believes that John wants to chat very easily. “Yes, but of course you know: they always do a sticker on the front for one reason and that is to give a kind of extra authority of: hey, he praises it, because his preface is in it! That feels like a kind of approval for his story. “
John: “Well, that publisher did.”
Renze: “You didn’t know that?”
John: “No, I didn’t know that, no.”
400 words
Renze thinks it is naive of John. “And if you had had that choice? Had you said, “Don’t do a sticker”? “
John: “Ehmm, I don’t know, I don’t know. I know a bit how it works. Very frankly, I cannot imagine that someone will buy that book because I have put a preface of 400 words in it. I don’t know. “
Meldegast Suse van Kleef: “But then you wouldn’t put it on the front as a marketing manager. If it doesn’t work, you don’t do it. “
Renze: “Yes, he will know.”
John: “That they then.”
No regrets
Renze cannot follow John like all other people. “Do you regret it?”
John: “No, I don’t regret it for a second, no.”
Renze: “You can say: he is out of his sentence and then he has to start a life again, but you don’t have to help him with that. Now you actually help him to stand on your own two feet again. “
John: “Well, I really see that very differently. The only thing I think: he is talking a lot about regret and repentance in the book … I really really believe that. I met him a few times. “
25,000 euros
Kees van der Spek believes that the book is not worthy if Joran does not promise to transfer 25,000 euros to the relatives of Natalee Holloway. After all, he extorted them for so much money. John Very Hypocrite: “I find that a very useful and good suggestion and I also hope he does that.”
Renze rightly so: “Then you could have said at the front:” That is my condition to write a preface that you at least at least 25k to Holloway. “
Unfortunately, Thomas Erdbrink breaks in with a question, so John does not answer.
Reciprocal service
Thomas wants to know from John: “Is it perhaps a bit of a reciprocal service? That you have interviewed him so often that you have the feeling that he has given you so much time? “
John: “Not so much to him, but I had a sense of the publisher’s argument.”
Table guest Jack Spijkerman: “” His own truth, “it says, but his life depends on lies together. Do you not feel burdened? ”
John: “I follow a lot of criminals and they often lie very much and against the cliffs, but in this book he just knows what he did and things we didn’t know yet. He expresses regret. ”
Hoppa, again someone fell off his pedestal …