Diana, Dodi Murders
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Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 25, Number 36, September 11, 1998 and in charge of the rescue effort and the first phase of the investigation, Massoni calls the Elyse´e Palace, to inform Pres- ident Chirac, and the British embassy. Moments later, Mas- soni is joined in the tunnel by Patrick Riou, director of the Diana, Dodi murders: Paris judiciary police; Martine Monteil, head of the criminal brigade (the unit that would conduct the first phase of the year of the cover-up police probe); and Paris’s assistant district attorney, Maud Coujard. by Jeffrey Steinberg By now SAMU workers are treating Princess Diana on a stretcher next to the car. 1:20 a.m.: The SAMU ambulance finally leaves the tun- One year after the Aug. 31, 1997 crash in Paris, the chief nel, to bring Princess Diana to La Pitie´ Salpeˆtrie`re Hospital, French investigator, Judge Herve´ Stephan, remains on the 3.8 miles from the tunnel. The ambulance drives at less than job, probing for answers to a number of vital questions. The 5 mph. At one point, less than 500 yards from the emergency answers to those questions, if they are to ever be found, will entrance to the hospital, the ambulance pulls over to the side determine whether the judge presses criminal charges against of the road and sits for ten minutes. nine paparazzi who were arrested within hours of the crash, 2 a.m.: Commissioner Monteil files her first report on the or against other, yet unnamed persons. In August, Stephan crash, noting: “According to the first witnesses, the Mercedes, issued an official statement on the status of his investigation, proceeding down this portion of the road at high speed, ap- confirming that he will not be finished with his report until pears to have swerved [because] the chauffeur was being pur- sometime in early 1999. The final forensic tests on the Mer- sued and interfered with by the vehicles of the journalists who cedes 280S that carried Princess Diana, her lover Dodi Fayed, had given chase. The driver must have lost control of his and driver Henri Paul to their deaths, are not expected to be vehicle and failed to recover. Again, according to the first handed over to Stephan until sometime in September. witnesses, the ‘paparazzi’ who were pursuing the Mercedes Despite the fact that Judge Stephan is still deep into his hastened to take photos after the accident, neglecting the ele- investigation one year after the crash, the vast majority of mentary acts of assistance to people in danger. Based on these people around the world believe that the case is closed, and observations, the first policemen on the scene proceeded to that the death of the “people’s princess” was the result of take the photographers in for questioning.” drunk and reckless driving by Paul, the Ritz Hotel’s acting 2:05 a.m.: The ambulance finally arrives at La Pitie´ security director. Salpeˆtrie`re. The chief duty physician, Dr. Bruno Riou, was The reason that the facts of the investigation are at such first alerted to the crash, and the fact that the operating room odds with the popular impression is that the international me- should be prepared, at 1 a.m. Several sources have told EIR dia, led by segments of the French and British press, in partic- that medical workers at the tunnel crash site had quickly ular, have conducted a vicious cover-up, including a smear diagnosed Princess Diana as suffering from internal bleed- job against anyone who dares to raise the unanswered ques- ing. The only appropriate emergency medical response to tions, or suggest that a murder conspiracy caused the death internal bleeding is to rush the victim into surgery, where the of Diana. damaged blood vessels can be closed and blood transfusions In June, the smear campaign escalated, when the monar- administered. Yet, a total of 1 hour and 43 minutes passes chy-allied Hollinger Corp.’s Daily Telegraph launched an all- from the point that the first emergency rescue workers arrive out effort to trash EIR, its Founder Lyndon LaRouche, and at the tunnel, to the point that Diana is wheeled into the this author, as a pack of conspiracy-peddlers, for daring to operating room. As she is being brought into surgery, Paris say that it cannot be ruled out that the Royal Consort, Prince Police Chief Philippe Massoni, who arrived at the hospital Philip, ordered the assassination of Diana and Dodi. TheDaily before Diana’s ambulance, is told by Dr. Riou that she has Telegraph and Britain’s Channel 4 TV similarly lashed out at suffered from thoracic hemorrhaging, further confirmation Mohamed Al Fayed, the father of Dodi Fayed and the owner that doctors at the tunnel crash site had correctly diagnosed of Harrods department store and the Paris Ritz Hotel, for also her injuries. refusing to accept the media “verdict” that the crash was the Efforts to revive the Princess continue for nearly two fault of Paul alone. hours. This, despite the fact that everything published in EIR, 3:30 a.m.: Mohamed Al Fayed arrives, by Sikorsky heli- and all of the published statements by Al Fayed, have been copter, at Le Bourget Airport. He is met by chauffeur Philippe based on detailed evidence, generally available in the public Dourneau and Kes Wingfield, and brought immediately to La domain. The media defenders of the British monarchy and Pitie´ Salpeˆtrie`re. Upon arrival at the hospital, he is informed the French government have resorted to wartime propaganda by Cheve`nement, Massoni, and British Ambassador Sir Mi- techniques to keep the general public misinformed. chael Jay, that Princess Diana has just died. The fact that the Hollinger Corp., owner of the Telegraph 4 a.m.: Princess Diana is officially pronounced dead. plc, is playing a leading role in the black propaganda drive, is 52 Investigation EIR September 11, 1998 © 1998 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. lawful. Hollinger, the British Crown’s most trusted media ana to a hospital. The French police claimed that the car had cartel, is a direct outgrowth of World War II British intelli- been crushed to such an extent that the Princess was trapped gence operations housed in Canada and directed against the in the rear seat, and it took a long time to cut her loose from United States. the wreckage. Despite the media’s “Big Lie” effort, the vast majority of Once photographs of the car and scenes of people milling Americans, Europeans, and citizens of the Islamic world re- around the crash site hit the newspapers, this “big lie” was ject the idea that the deaths of Diana and Dodi were the result also exposed. The photographs, as well as the eyewitness of a traffic accident. The following chronology should rein- accounts, clearly showed that the rear door on the right side force those beliefs and, hopefully, provoke further public out- of the car was open, and that that part of the passenger com- cry at the brazen effort to bury the truth. partment had not been crushed. In fact, there was no obstruc- tion to getting the Princess out of the car. Both paparazzo Phases of the cover-up Romauld Rat and Dr. Fre´de´ric Mailliez had been able to get The French police collusion with the international media to the Princess, and move her in the back seat before the first to cover up the actual circumstance surrounding the deaths of French emergency rescue workers arrived at the crash site. Diana, Dodi, and Paul, has gone through several phases. In each phase, however, the same cast of characters have been The Henri Paul blood tests caught red-handed, peddling outright lies, to further the mis- Forty-eight hours after the crash, the cover-up took a new information that the cause of death was a drunk-driving ac- turn, one that has remained a constant of the evidence suppres- cident. sion ever since. Medical examiners who performed the au- In the immediate hours after the crash, most of the atten- topsy on Paul just a few hours after the crash found significant tion was focussed on the paparazzi, nine of whom were ar- levels of alcohol in his blood. rested at the crash site on charges of manslaughter (involun- According to the initial leaked autopsy information, tary murder) and violation of France’s Good Samaritan law, Paul’s blood showed three times the legal limit of alcohol. A which requires passersby at an accident scene render aid. In second test revealed that there were also traces of two pre- the first 48 hours after the crash, the paparazzi were the targets scription drugs. As the days wore on, reports of other pur- of public outrage. ported tests showed that Paul had been on a “drinking binge” But, even in the early hours after the crash, the French for a week, prior to the crash. In fact, Paul had passed a gruel- police were caught peddling two crucial, but easily discred- ing physical exam to renew his civilian pilot’s license, 24 ited lies. hours before Diana and Dodi landed in Paris. He was certainly First, the police leaked word that Paul had been speeding not on a “drinking binge” when he passed that physical. at the point of the crash. The police claimed that the speedom- Again, the leaks raced ahead of the evidence. Paul’s fam- eter on the Mercedes 280S had frozen at more than 120 miles ily strongly objected to the idea that he had been drunk behind per hour, thus proving that Paul was driving at out-of-con- the wheel of the Mercedes.