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Joran van der Sloot's lawyer told FOX following reports of controversy in which the man who murdered American teenager Natalie Holloway and Peruvian heiress Stephanie Flores was assaulted inside a bar. He shared the video with News Digital and said his client is apparently in good health.
A 41-second video provided by Lima-based lawyer Máximo Artes shows van der Sloot and his teammates from “La Naranja Meccanica” (which means “Clockwork Orange” in Spanish) , is shown following several other members of the prison team into a gymnasium.
Van der Sloot, 6 feet 5 inches tall, towers over everyone in the room, wearing a blue jersey and newsboy cap, and enters with a grin on his face and his hands on his chest.
Artez denied the two-on-one prison assault report against van der Sloot as “fake news”. It comes after the 36-year-old killer visited a prison clinic for treatment and was allegedly a marked man.
“He's fine,” the attorney told FOX News Digital.
A spokesperson for Peru's National Penitentiary told the Post last week that two men attacked the Dutchman inside the prison and he was treated for cuts and bruises.
Because the perpetrator was the instigator, he was not disciplined.
“Many people want him dead,” the newspaper quoted an anonymous official as saying.
Col. Luis Quiroz, head of Interpol in Peru, told Fox News Digital that prison officials he spoke to had no information about the alleged assault on van der Sloot.
A former inmate who spent time with van der Sloot during a brief detention in Alabama last year told the Post that the killer was an arrogant “con artist.”
“He walks around the prison like he's the boss, demands what he wants and treats other men like he's the worst,” Emil Quinones told the newspaper. “He's made a lot of enemies because he's a hell of a guy.”
Van der Sloot is currently serving multiple sentences at Peru's mountaintop Chalapalca prison, but Artes has previously hated the prison so much that he has been asked by U.S. prosecutors in connection with federal racketeering charges against him. He said he was ready to talk.
Still, under the country's constitution, conjugal visits with multiple women are allowed for mental health and rehabilitation purposes.
It's not immediately clear how van der Sloot's team chose the name “A Clockwork Orange,” but Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film of the same title featured a violent rape The film depicts a failed attempt to rehabilitate the leader of a criminal group.
Van der Sloot allegedly killed Holloway with a cinder block on an Aruba beach in 2005 as part of an extortion and fraud scheme in which he tried to extort the victim's mother for $250,000. was finally approved in October.
He murdered Ms. Flores exactly five years later in a hotel room at her father's casino in Lima.
Under an international plea agreement, he is serving time in Peru on U.S. charges of blackmailing Holloway's mother.
But his lawyer, Artez, said Van der Sloot hated Chalaparka, calling him “hell.”
The prison is known for freezing temperatures every night, and its remote location means there is no cell phone service.
In 2014, Artez told Reuters that a few months after he was first transferred to prison, his client was stabbed three times in prison for unruly behavior. However, sources told the outlet that his wounds appeared to be self-inflicted.
Van der Sloot previously had his sentence extended in Peru following a drug and phone smuggling scandal.
Although the statute of limitations for Holloway's murder has now expired, Aruban authorities remain open to prosecuting him there.
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