Help us find an ARTE documentary to save some Iranian e-Journalists
Almost 4 months ago, a Persian website broke a piece of news: “ARTE satellite channel featured a Dutch documentary which documented Iran Traffic Police Forces’ bribery, whose scenes were gathered through sophisticated hidden camera methods.” As expected, that piece of news was published so widely among Persian websites.
Administrators of the original website did not provide a sample of the documentary neither did they refer to an authentic source for it. After a while, Iran’s Traffic Police (NAJA) sued them. Now they have to bring an authentic source for that piece of information to the court. The problem is that their original source had been a word of mouth from a Swiss man whom they can’t locate anymore. Now they are trying to find a clue to that documentary.
At the first glance, it seems that the documentary (if it really be a product of ARTE) should be Deutsche, not Dutch. In addition, original information reveals the name of producer as Van Versen, though this spelling might be misleading thanks to lack of a standard transcription procedure.
So, it’s a rather complicated story! That would be a big favor to them if the original documentary is found or some authentic information about it may be isolated. Help us do that.
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Dear Mohammad,
How should we help?
And what did you do with Konkoor?
Mohammad Memarian you better off to write honestly. Naja is not Iran’s Traffic Police!!!!! I mean seriously…what do you consider these guys? because they have no clue about Iran, don’t you think so somebody (like me) is gonna catch you lying?!!
Hi Mohammad,
I asked around with some Dutch Iran experts in the Netherlands, but it did not ring a bell… Did you contact ARTE about this?
Hi everybody
Lord:
They want to find the documentary or a report about it from authentic sources. If you know it, let me know as well. (And I didn’t choose a major.)
An Iranian:
You are somehow right. NAJA is a total branch of police dealing with several issues one of which is Traffic affairs. That documentary is just about Traffic Police.
Erik:
I tried to find a Contact Page or Email on their website, but failed. Could you please help me find out how I can contact them? thanks a lot.