EXCLUSIVE: Joran van der Sloot’s lawyer shared a video with Fox Information Digital that confirmed his consumer in obvious good well being after disputed experiences that the person who killed American teen Natalee Holloway and Peruvian heiress Stephany Flores suffered a beatdown behind bars.
Within the 41-second clip supplied by his Lima-based legal professional, Maximo Altez, van der Sloot and his teammates on “La Naranja Mecanica” – Spanish for “The Clockwork Orange” – observe a number of different jail groups right into a gymnasium.
At 6 toes 5 inches tall, van der Sloot towers over everybody else within the room, holding his hand over his coronary heart and grinning as he enters, sporting a blue tracksuit and a newsboy hat.
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On this picture taken from video, Joran van der Sloot towers over his soccer teammates in a Peru jail, holding his hand over his coronary heart and sporting a blue tracksuit and newsboy cap. His lawyer, Maximo Altez, shared the video after denying experiences that his consumer had been assaulted by two different inmates within the Peruvian jail. (Maximo Altez)
Altez has denied experiences of a two-on-one jail assault in opposition to van der Sloot as “pretend information” after the 36-year-old killer purportedly went to a jail infirmary for remedy and was mentioned to be a marked man.
“He is advantageous,” the lawyer instructed Fox Information Digital.
A spokesperson for Peru’s Nationwide Penitentiary Institute instructed the New York Put up final week that two males attacked the Dutch nationwide in jail and that he was handled for cuts and bruises. He was not going through disciplinary motion as a result of the assailants have been the instigators.
“Lots of people need him lifeless,” the paper quoted the unnamed official as saying.
Peru’s Interpol chief, Col. Luis Quiroz, instructed Fox Information Digital that jail officers he spoke with had no details about an alleged assault on van der Sloot.
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Natalee Holloway, middle, went lacking throughout a spring break journey in 2005 and was by no means discovered. (FBI)
A former inmate who did time with van der Sloot throughout his transient detention in Alabama final yr instructed the Put up that the killer is an boastful “d–chebag.”
“He walks round jail like he’s the boss, calls for what he needs, treats different guys like s—,” Emil Quinones instructed the paper. “He made a number of enemies as a result of he’s such an a–hole.”
Van der Sloot is serving his a number of sentences in Peru’s mountaintop Challapalca jail, a spot Altez beforehand mentioned he hates a lot he was prepared to speak to prosecutors within the U.S. in connection to federal extortion expenses in opposition to him.
Joran van der Sloot smiles as he prepares to depart the airport in Lima, Peru, on June 8, 2023. (Col. Carlos López Aeda for Fox Information Digital)
Even so, he’s granted conjugal visits there with a number of girls for his psychological well being and rehabilitation underneath the nation’s structure.
It was not instantly clear how van der Sloot’s staff selected its identify, “The Clockwork Orange,” however a 1971 Stanley Kubrick film with the identical title is concerning the botched try at rehabilitating the chief of a gang of violent rapists.
Van der Sloot lastly admitted in October to killing Holloway with a cinder block on an Aruba seaside in 2005 as a part of the extortion and fraud case during which he tried to shake down the sufferer’s mom for $250,000. He murdered Flores precisely 5 years later in a lodge room in her father’s on line casino in Lima.
Outdoors San Pedro jail in Peru, one poster reads in Spanish, “Stephany Flores asks for justice,” and the poster of Joran van der Sloot reads, “Religious punishment.” In 2012, van der Sloot was sentenced to twenty-eight years in jail for the Flores killing. (AP Photograph/Karel Navarro)
In a world plea deal, he’s serving his sentence on the U.S. expenses for extorting Holloway’s mom in Peru.
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Nevertheless, van der Sloot hates Challapalca, in line with his lawyer, Altez, who calls it “hell.” The jail is thought to see temperatures under freezing on a nightly foundation and is so distant that cell service does not attain it.
In 2014, Altez instructed Reuters that his consumer had been stabbed thrice within the jail months after his preliminary switch there for unruly habits. Nevertheless, officers instructed the outlet that the injuries seemed self-inflicted.
This view reveals the doorway of the Challapalca maximum-security jail in Peru, the place Joran van der Sloot is serving sentences for the homicide of Stephany Flores and for extorting the mom of Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old Alabama lady he killed in 2005. (AP Photograph/Elmer Jilaja)
Van der Sloot beforehand had his Peruvian sentence prolonged after a drug and telephone smuggling scandal.
Aruba authorities have left open the potential of prosecuting him there, though the statute of limitations has expired on Holloway’s homicide.
Armando Regil Velasco and Fox Information’ Mitch Picasso contributed to this report.
