[diana] when these are answered, we may move on
…to Downing Street, the heads of Whitehall departments and, if necessary, senior aides of the Royal Family.
Just before midnight as Diana was preparing to leave the Ritz Hotel with Dodi two well-spoken men burst through the door of the communications room. Described as "public school", they ordered this operative to leave his post and not to return until told. He told a colleague: "It was that bastard Fellowes. He turfed me out of my own office."
The PM boarded an RAF plane piloted by a crew based in Scotland which had flown to Teesside. Another operative was one of the security staff on duty at Tony Blair’s Sedgefield constituency during the weekend that Diana died and was at Teeside to greet the PM.
The co-pilot, according to information given to Stevens, asked this operative: "What’s really going on? We’ve been on standby in Scotland since 5pm on Friday waiting to make this flight to Northolt with the Prime Minister."
Driver Henri Paul
According to the official press release, Paul's blood contained four times the legal amount of alcohol as well as fluoxetine and tiapride. Brian Anderson [eyewitness of the accident] reported seeing the Mercedes driving in a straight path. Trevor Rees-Jones remembered nothing unusual about Henri Paul.
Henri Paul was reported to have parked his car normally. He was a licensed pilot with 600 hours flying time during his supposed alcoholism. Alexander "Kez"Wingfield, 32, one of the bodyguards on the night, also said Paul behaved normally and did not smell of alcohol even at close range:
“He had been in a decoy car getting the photographers off Diana’s trail that night and he told me that Henri Paul wasn’t drunk. I’d be happy to tell the Stevens inquiry everything I know. The truth is the Princess feared that she was about to be killed in the final weeks of her life.”
The approach to the tunnel
Londoner Brenda Wells, 40, a British secretary, was headed directly for the Alma tunnel from what was a secondary feeding road which appears from the right just before the tunnel proper:
'After a party with my friends, I was returning to my home. A motorbike with two men forced me off the road. It was following a big car. Afterwards in the tunnel there were very strong lights like flashes. After that, a black car arrived. The big car had come off the road. I stopped and five or six motorbikes arrived and started taking photographs. They were crying 'It's Diana.'
She disappeared thereafter and the press were not able to access her, nor was her testimony counted.
Tom Richardson and Joanna Luz, two Americans, taking a walk outside the tunnel, told CNN that when they walked into the tunnel seconds after the accident: "A man started running towards us telling us to go."
Brian Anderson, an American businessman from California, was driving in a taxi along the Voie George Pompidou, when he saw the Mercedes 280-S driving past, with two motorcycles and other cars right on its tail.
Anderson told reporters from NBC "Dateline" that the Mercedes was travelling at a rapid, but safe speed, of approximately 60 miles per hour, but that there were clearly other vehicles attempting to harass the Mercedes, as it headed toward the tunnel entrance. Anderson also noted that the driver of the Mercedes appeared to be perfectly in command of the situation, and showed no signs of being drunk.
Francois Levy, a retired ship's captain from Rouen, France, was also driving in front of the Mercedes, as the cars entered the tunnel. He contacted attorneys for the Ritz Hotel, who passed his account on to the French police:
"In my rearview mirror, I saw the car [the Mercedes] in the middle of the tunnel with the motorcycle on its left, pulling ahead, and then swerving to the right directly in front of the car," Levy said.
"As the motorcycle swerved and before the car lost control, there was a flash of light, but then I was out of the tunnel and heard, but did not see, the impact." He continued, "I immediately pulled my car over to the curb, but my wife said: 'Let's get out of here. It's a terrorist attack.' There were two people on the motorcycle."
Bernard Dartevelle, the attorney for the Ritz Hotel, told Associated Press's Paris correspondent, Jocelyn Noveck, on Sept. 8 that he had been shown copies of two photographs confiscated by Paris police, that showed driver Henri Paul blinded by a bright flash of light. Dartevelle described the two pictures:
"One sees very distinctly the driver dazzled by a flash. One sees very distinctly the bodyguard at his side, who with a brisk gesture lowers the visor to protect himself from the flash, and one sees very distinctly Princess Diana turning to look behind the vehicle, and one sees very distinctly the yellow headlight of a motorcycle."
Dartevelle adds, "The photo taken before the first photo of the accident shows the Mercedes taken from very close. . . . A driver, who is maybe a photographer, and a motorcyclist, also perhaps a photographer, are very directly implicated in this accident."
The suggestions of a blinding flash of light, as described by Dartevelle are corroborated by other witnesses. British and French intelligence services have developed, and deployed light mobile lasers, or dazers, which temporarily blind a target, and also cause sudden, sharp, paralyzing pain in the optic nerve, used in Africa, the Balkans, and in the Persian Gulf War.
Gary Hunter's view from his hotel room near to but not actually overlooking the tunnel entrance: The two cars were driving in tandem, "with the white car nearly on the bumper of the smaller dark car."
The Fiat Uno
The London Daily Telegraph, in a story by Julian Nundy from Paris, noted, "Paris police investigating the crash . . . have found a mysterious scratch along the right-hand side of the tangled wreckage of, the Mercedes in which she was a passenger."
Shortly after midnight, on Aug. 30-31, 1997, David Laurent, an off-duty senior French police official, was driving alone in his car on the right bank of the Seine River, heading toward the Place de l'Alma tunnel where, moments later, Diana Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul would die in a car crash.
As he drove, Laurent was passed by a speeding white Fiat Uno. As he approached the tunnel, Laurent noticed that the Fiat Uno that had sped by him, was now crawling along in the right traffic lane, almost at a standstill, just before the tunnel entrance. Laurent's account was withheld from the chief investigating magistrate, Hervé Stephan, for several months.
Reports said that there was ...a 62 ft. long skid mark that swerves from the right into the left lane. A short distance beyond that is the beginning of a 105-ft. long skid mark that leads directly into the 13th pillar.
Dr Maillez
Frederic Maillez, off duty emergency medical worker, the first doctor on the scene, made it very clear that he battled through the smoke of the accident to treat Diana, whom he did not recognize, despite his statement:
"I stopped my car and went to see. There were many people around and lots of panic. (Guardian: Reuters 09/02/97). Then, on October 6th, on NBC Dateline Dr. Maillez said; "and almost nobody was (at first) around the car…no more than 3-5 persons."
Dr. Mailliez found Princess Diana lying on the back seat of the Mercedes, according to his account to The Scotsman. Contrary to stories leaked by French authorities to the press, she was not pinned in the rear compartment. The back seat of the Mercedes had not been seriously damaged in the crash, and there was no obstruction to getting to Diana.
His first impression, as he later told an interviewer, was that the woman was not in a hopeless condition, and had a chance to survive. He admitted, however, that he did not know about her internal problems.
The armour plated car
Ambulance attendant Michel Massebeuf said:
“On our arrival the Samu doctor immediately started treating the Princess, while she was in the car."
Against that is the police statement:
The problem was the car's dense armor plating. "The car is extremely heavy and needs experience to drive it," a police officer said. "The specially reinforced steel made it extremely difficult to cut through and reach Princess Diana and the injured bodyguard in the front seat after the crash.
Dr. Maillez, according to Time magazine, Diana faced no impediment and there was no need to cut the roof to remove her from the car. In fact, Maillez' companion Mark Budt said: "…the portion of the car that she was in, that quarter was basically undamaged." Rees-Jones and Paul did need to be cut out though.
Sapeurs-Pompiers, a military emergency service, arrived within seven minutes then 15 minutes after the accident, the first SAMU ambulance arrived with its on-board physician, Jean-Marc Martino, anaesthetist and resuscitation surgeon took charge of Diana. In a deposition given later to French investigators, the physician said Diana was agitated, crying out, and did not seem to understand everything he said to reassure her. He added that she repeatedly moved her left arm and right leg. He immediately started an IV drip.
The injuries
The French coroners report listed the cause of death as internal hemorrhaging due to a major chest trauma as a phenomenon of deceleration which caused a rupture of the left pulmonary vein. The French Health Minister and other officials said that Diana suffered multiple internal injuries that left her no chance of survival.
Dr. Maillez now said: "Her heart had been ripped out of its place in her chest," says Mailliez. "There was no chance for her."
The opinion of opinion of the chief cardio-vascular surgeon of a nearby hospital anonymously admitted that a patient suffering from a partial tear of the pulmonary vein would indeed have a chance to survive.
Dr. John Ochsner, Chairman Emeritus of surgery at the Alton Ochsner clinic in New Orleans, and one of America’s pre-eminent cardio-vascular surgeons said: A ruptured pulmonary vein is a rare, rare injury. The much more common deceleration injury is to the aorta. Once the aorta ruptures, death is instantaneous. That is not necessarily the case with a pulmonary vein because the pulmonary vein is a low-pressure system."
In the U.S., the standard approach to emergency treatment is “scope and run” Dr. David Wasserman, an American physician with nine years experience in emergency rooms of one of the country’s biggest urban hospitals said that if they had gotten her to the operating room sooner, she would have had a far greater chance. "You could never diagnose that kind of injury in the field."
Dr. Philip Brewer, chief of emergency services at Yale New Haven hospital in Connecticut, fully shares this view. "As soon as internal bleeding starts, he says, a clock starts ticking and you have only a limited time to live"
Dr. Andrew Mason, spokesman for the British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Dr. Peter Craig, former chief of surgery in the British Army and Dr. Stephen Miles, a specialist in emergency medicine in Royal London Hospital declared in the Daily Telegraph that all the resuscitation in the world at roadside wouldn’t have saved her. The only way she could have been resuscitated was by operating.
The delay
Maud Morel-Coujard, the French legal official who oversaw the police operation on the night of the crash said that some instructions on the treatment of the dying Princess were issued by Sir Michael Jay, who was also at the hospital. He was, in turn, receiving his orders via his mobile from the British Embassy, Balmoral and Downing Street.
She also said that a decision to embalm Diana's body two hours before it was flown back to England was made by 'the British authorities'.
According to several sources, interviewed by EIR, the Paris Police Prefect (police chief), Philippe Massoni, was at the crash site in the tunnel under the Place de l'Alma; and, the French interior minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, was at the Pitie Salpetriere Hospital prior to the arrival of the ambulance carrying Princess Diana.
On Nov. 10, Tim Luckhurst, the assistant editor of The Scotsman, and the co-author of a detailed investigative report on the events that transpired in the Place de L'Alma tunnel immediately following the crash, confirmed that Massoni was in the tunnel, overseeing the rescue and preliminary forensic investigation. The French media reported that, along with Massoni, other top-ranking French officials were also at the tunnel, including Patrick Rioux, chief of the Judiciary Police, and Martine Monteil, head of the Criminal Brigade.
At just before 0200, Chevénement joined Massoni at la Pitié-Salpêtrière, at the wing containing the intensive care unit. To their "great surprise" the ambulance containing the Princess has not yet arrived. Piete-Salpetriere hospital, 6.15 kilometers away. At that time of night, it would normally take five or 10 minutes to do that drive along the riverfront expressway. The banks of the Seine had been closed to traffic, and even travelling at a cautious 40-50 kph to avoid aggravating the Princess's injuries, the ambulance should already have been there.
One French doctor who specializes in emergency response, told EIR that Princess Diana should have been taken to the Val de Grace, "which is much closer than La Pitie. That is a military hospital. Every political figure who is in a car crash or is injured is taken there."
At the Point d' Austerlitz, a short distance from the hospital, the motorcade pulled off the road, within a few hundred yards of the hospital. There are photos freely available that that was so. The Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital specifically denied the stories that the ambulance stopped and that Diana was injected with adrenaline. [NBC Nightly News September 10, 1997]
Carlo Zaglia, of the fire service, told how Diana repeatedly asked: "What's happened?What's going on?" His account contradicts official versions of the fatal crash, which claim Diana was too badly injured to speak. Zaglia, who did not give evidence to the official investigation, said:
'She could speak, she could hear and her eyes were open. She looks at me with these wide eyes and says, 'What's happened, what's happened? What's going on? Show me what's happened.' 'And she looks around but at the moment she was already in serious shock.' He said she tried to stand but was trapped in the wreckage.
The key criticism was why, if the high level personalities were at the ready to get to the tunnel and the hospital, why did they not authorize a helicopter lift which was indeed possible at the far end of the tunnel. Even at snail's pace, she would have been there in two minutes.
Mailliez' defence of the slow road journey to the hospital was: "It's worse to go fast. Braking and accelerating can literally kill your patient, because the blood races to head and feet alternately."
Yet that defence was all the more reason to helicopter airlift her.
Finally, at the hospital, Dr Dahman was forced to perform a thoracotomy [opening of chest cavity] with external cardiac massage. Of course, it was to no avail. Along with this was the presence, in the emergency room, of an 'older' man, seen by one of the orderlies going in unaccredited and not wearing surgical clothing and standing at the foot of where Diana lay, speaking some phrases repeatedly. He was not there when the orderly returned and then the orderly himself was replaced on duty.
A recent move
Just before midnight as Diana was preparing to leave the Ritz Hotel with Dodi two well-spoken men burst through the door of the communications room. Described as "public school", they ordered this operative to leave his post and not to return until told. He told a colleague: "It was that bastard Fellowes. He turfed me out of my own office."
The PM boarded an RAF plane piloted by a crew based in Scotland which had flown to Teesside. Another operative was one of the security staff on duty at Tony Blair’s Sedgefield constituency during the weekend that Diana died and was at Teeside to greet the PM.
The co-pilot, according to information given to Stevens, asked this operative: "What’s really going on? We’ve been on standby in Scotland since 5pm on Friday waiting to make this flight to Northolt with the Prime Minister."
Driver Henri Paul
According to the official press release, Paul's blood contained four times the legal amount of alcohol as well as fluoxetine and tiapride. Brian Anderson [eyewitness of the accident] reported seeing the Mercedes driving in a straight path. Trevor Rees-Jones remembered nothing unusual about Henri Paul.
Henri Paul was reported to have parked his car normally. He was a licensed pilot with 600 hours flying time during his supposed alcoholism. Alexander "Kez"Wingfield, 32, one of the bodyguards on the night, also said Paul behaved normally and did not smell of alcohol even at close range:
“He had been in a decoy car getting the photographers off Diana’s trail that night and he told me that Henri Paul wasn’t drunk. I’d be happy to tell the Stevens inquiry everything I know. The truth is the Princess feared that she was about to be killed in the final weeks of her life.”
The approach to the tunnel
Londoner Brenda Wells, 40, a British secretary, was headed directly for the Alma tunnel from what was a secondary feeding road which appears from the right just before the tunnel proper:
'After a party with my friends, I was returning to my home. A motorbike with two men forced me off the road. It was following a big car. Afterwards in the tunnel there were very strong lights like flashes. After that, a black car arrived. The big car had come off the road. I stopped and five or six motorbikes arrived and started taking photographs. They were crying 'It's Diana.'
She disappeared thereafter and the press were not able to access her, nor was her testimony counted.
Tom Richardson and Joanna Luz, two Americans, taking a walk outside the tunnel, told CNN that when they walked into the tunnel seconds after the accident: "A man started running towards us telling us to go."
Brian Anderson, an American businessman from California, was driving in a taxi along the Voie George Pompidou, when he saw the Mercedes 280-S driving past, with two motorcycles and other cars right on its tail.
Anderson told reporters from NBC "Dateline" that the Mercedes was travelling at a rapid, but safe speed, of approximately 60 miles per hour, but that there were clearly other vehicles attempting to harass the Mercedes, as it headed toward the tunnel entrance. Anderson also noted that the driver of the Mercedes appeared to be perfectly in command of the situation, and showed no signs of being drunk.
Francois Levy, a retired ship's captain from Rouen, France, was also driving in front of the Mercedes, as the cars entered the tunnel. He contacted attorneys for the Ritz Hotel, who passed his account on to the French police:
"In my rearview mirror, I saw the car [the Mercedes] in the middle of the tunnel with the motorcycle on its left, pulling ahead, and then swerving to the right directly in front of the car," Levy said.
"As the motorcycle swerved and before the car lost control, there was a flash of light, but then I was out of the tunnel and heard, but did not see, the impact." He continued, "I immediately pulled my car over to the curb, but my wife said: 'Let's get out of here. It's a terrorist attack.' There were two people on the motorcycle."
Bernard Dartevelle, the attorney for the Ritz Hotel, told Associated Press's Paris correspondent, Jocelyn Noveck, on Sept. 8 that he had been shown copies of two photographs confiscated by Paris police, that showed driver Henri Paul blinded by a bright flash of light. Dartevelle described the two pictures:
"One sees very distinctly the driver dazzled by a flash. One sees very distinctly the bodyguard at his side, who with a brisk gesture lowers the visor to protect himself from the flash, and one sees very distinctly Princess Diana turning to look behind the vehicle, and one sees very distinctly the yellow headlight of a motorcycle."
Dartevelle adds, "The photo taken before the first photo of the accident shows the Mercedes taken from very close. . . . A driver, who is maybe a photographer, and a motorcyclist, also perhaps a photographer, are very directly implicated in this accident."
The suggestions of a blinding flash of light, as described by Dartevelle are corroborated by other witnesses. British and French intelligence services have developed, and deployed light mobile lasers, or dazers, which temporarily blind a target, and also cause sudden, sharp, paralyzing pain in the optic nerve, used in Africa, the Balkans, and in the Persian Gulf War.
Gary Hunter's view from his hotel room near to but not actually overlooking the tunnel entrance: The two cars were driving in tandem, "with the white car nearly on the bumper of the smaller dark car."
The Fiat Uno
The London Daily Telegraph, in a story by Julian Nundy from Paris, noted, "Paris police investigating the crash . . . have found a mysterious scratch along the right-hand side of the tangled wreckage of, the Mercedes in which she was a passenger."
Shortly after midnight, on Aug. 30-31, 1997, David Laurent, an off-duty senior French police official, was driving alone in his car on the right bank of the Seine River, heading toward the Place de l'Alma tunnel where, moments later, Diana Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul would die in a car crash.
As he drove, Laurent was passed by a speeding white Fiat Uno. As he approached the tunnel, Laurent noticed that the Fiat Uno that had sped by him, was now crawling along in the right traffic lane, almost at a standstill, just before the tunnel entrance. Laurent's account was withheld from the chief investigating magistrate, Hervé Stephan, for several months.
Reports said that there was ...a 62 ft. long skid mark that swerves from the right into the left lane. A short distance beyond that is the beginning of a 105-ft. long skid mark that leads directly into the 13th pillar.
Dr Maillez
Frederic Maillez, off duty emergency medical worker, the first doctor on the scene, made it very clear that he battled through the smoke of the accident to treat Diana, whom he did not recognize, despite his statement:
"I stopped my car and went to see. There were many people around and lots of panic. (Guardian: Reuters 09/02/97). Then, on October 6th, on NBC Dateline Dr. Maillez said; "and almost nobody was (at first) around the car…no more than 3-5 persons."
Dr. Mailliez found Princess Diana lying on the back seat of the Mercedes, according to his account to The Scotsman. Contrary to stories leaked by French authorities to the press, she was not pinned in the rear compartment. The back seat of the Mercedes had not been seriously damaged in the crash, and there was no obstruction to getting to Diana.
His first impression, as he later told an interviewer, was that the woman was not in a hopeless condition, and had a chance to survive. He admitted, however, that he did not know about her internal problems.
The armour plated car
Ambulance attendant Michel Massebeuf said:
“On our arrival the Samu doctor immediately started treating the Princess, while she was in the car."
Against that is the police statement:
The problem was the car's dense armor plating. "The car is extremely heavy and needs experience to drive it," a police officer said. "The specially reinforced steel made it extremely difficult to cut through and reach Princess Diana and the injured bodyguard in the front seat after the crash.
Dr. Maillez, according to Time magazine, Diana faced no impediment and there was no need to cut the roof to remove her from the car. In fact, Maillez' companion Mark Budt said: "…the portion of the car that she was in, that quarter was basically undamaged." Rees-Jones and Paul did need to be cut out though.
Sapeurs-Pompiers, a military emergency service, arrived within seven minutes then 15 minutes after the accident, the first SAMU ambulance arrived with its on-board physician, Jean-Marc Martino, anaesthetist and resuscitation surgeon took charge of Diana. In a deposition given later to French investigators, the physician said Diana was agitated, crying out, and did not seem to understand everything he said to reassure her. He added that she repeatedly moved her left arm and right leg. He immediately started an IV drip.
The injuries
The French coroners report listed the cause of death as internal hemorrhaging due to a major chest trauma as a phenomenon of deceleration which caused a rupture of the left pulmonary vein. The French Health Minister and other officials said that Diana suffered multiple internal injuries that left her no chance of survival.
Dr. Maillez now said: "Her heart had been ripped out of its place in her chest," says Mailliez. "There was no chance for her."
The opinion of opinion of the chief cardio-vascular surgeon of a nearby hospital anonymously admitted that a patient suffering from a partial tear of the pulmonary vein would indeed have a chance to survive.
Dr. John Ochsner, Chairman Emeritus of surgery at the Alton Ochsner clinic in New Orleans, and one of America’s pre-eminent cardio-vascular surgeons said: A ruptured pulmonary vein is a rare, rare injury. The much more common deceleration injury is to the aorta. Once the aorta ruptures, death is instantaneous. That is not necessarily the case with a pulmonary vein because the pulmonary vein is a low-pressure system."
In the U.S., the standard approach to emergency treatment is “scope and run” Dr. David Wasserman, an American physician with nine years experience in emergency rooms of one of the country’s biggest urban hospitals said that if they had gotten her to the operating room sooner, she would have had a far greater chance. "You could never diagnose that kind of injury in the field."
Dr. Philip Brewer, chief of emergency services at Yale New Haven hospital in Connecticut, fully shares this view. "As soon as internal bleeding starts, he says, a clock starts ticking and you have only a limited time to live"
Dr. Andrew Mason, spokesman for the British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Dr. Peter Craig, former chief of surgery in the British Army and Dr. Stephen Miles, a specialist in emergency medicine in Royal London Hospital declared in the Daily Telegraph that all the resuscitation in the world at roadside wouldn’t have saved her. The only way she could have been resuscitated was by operating.
The delay
Maud Morel-Coujard, the French legal official who oversaw the police operation on the night of the crash said that some instructions on the treatment of the dying Princess were issued by Sir Michael Jay, who was also at the hospital. He was, in turn, receiving his orders via his mobile from the British Embassy, Balmoral and Downing Street.
She also said that a decision to embalm Diana's body two hours before it was flown back to England was made by 'the British authorities'.
According to several sources, interviewed by EIR, the Paris Police Prefect (police chief), Philippe Massoni, was at the crash site in the tunnel under the Place de l'Alma; and, the French interior minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, was at the Pitie Salpetriere Hospital prior to the arrival of the ambulance carrying Princess Diana.
On Nov. 10, Tim Luckhurst, the assistant editor of The Scotsman, and the co-author of a detailed investigative report on the events that transpired in the Place de L'Alma tunnel immediately following the crash, confirmed that Massoni was in the tunnel, overseeing the rescue and preliminary forensic investigation. The French media reported that, along with Massoni, other top-ranking French officials were also at the tunnel, including Patrick Rioux, chief of the Judiciary Police, and Martine Monteil, head of the Criminal Brigade.
At just before 0200, Chevénement joined Massoni at la Pitié-Salpêtrière, at the wing containing the intensive care unit. To their "great surprise" the ambulance containing the Princess has not yet arrived. Piete-Salpetriere hospital, 6.15 kilometers away. At that time of night, it would normally take five or 10 minutes to do that drive along the riverfront expressway. The banks of the Seine had been closed to traffic, and even travelling at a cautious 40-50 kph to avoid aggravating the Princess's injuries, the ambulance should already have been there.
One French doctor who specializes in emergency response, told EIR that Princess Diana should have been taken to the Val de Grace, "which is much closer than La Pitie. That is a military hospital. Every political figure who is in a car crash or is injured is taken there."
At the Point d' Austerlitz, a short distance from the hospital, the motorcade pulled off the road, within a few hundred yards of the hospital. There are photos freely available that that was so. The Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital specifically denied the stories that the ambulance stopped and that Diana was injected with adrenaline. [NBC Nightly News September 10, 1997]
Carlo Zaglia, of the fire service, told how Diana repeatedly asked: "What's happened?What's going on?" His account contradicts official versions of the fatal crash, which claim Diana was too badly injured to speak. Zaglia, who did not give evidence to the official investigation, said:
'She could speak, she could hear and her eyes were open. She looks at me with these wide eyes and says, 'What's happened, what's happened? What's going on? Show me what's happened.' 'And she looks around but at the moment she was already in serious shock.' He said she tried to stand but was trapped in the wreckage.
The key criticism was why, if the high level personalities were at the ready to get to the tunnel and the hospital, why did they not authorize a helicopter lift which was indeed possible at the far end of the tunnel. Even at snail's pace, she would have been there in two minutes.
Mailliez' defence of the slow road journey to the hospital was: "It's worse to go fast. Braking and accelerating can literally kill your patient, because the blood races to head and feet alternately."
Yet that defence was all the more reason to helicopter airlift her.
Finally, at the hospital, Dr Dahman was forced to perform a thoracotomy [opening of chest cavity] with external cardiac massage. Of course, it was to no avail. Along with this was the presence, in the emergency room, of an 'older' man, seen by one of the orderlies going in unaccredited and not wearing surgical clothing and standing at the foot of where Diana lay, speaking some phrases repeatedly. He was not there when the orderly returned and then the orderly himself was replaced on duty.
A recent move
June 30, 2006: MI6's Richard Tomlinson's residence in France was raided by agents of the DST, or Directorate for Territorial Surveillance, the French equivalent of MI5. They were supported by police officers. It was authorised by local judge, Anna Veilla. In Operation Paget, the Diana inquiry led by former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens, Tomlinson stated that the “blinding flash” in the tunnel bore all the hallmarks of a secret service plot.
Finally
The French daily Le Parisien reported Princess Diana's last words as she lay in the car as: "Leave me alone, leave me alone." That's what we all wish to do but how can it be until the anomalies are dealt with properly, rather than in Elizabeth Butler-Sloss's blanket blandishments. If she says she's seen absolutely no evidence, she clearly hasn't read any of the material sources used to write this post and if she hasn't, then why not?
Sources
By definition, the straight media are not going to run the sort of questions dealt with above - there are any number of these articles. Unfortunately, one must go to the detractors, ranging form the scurrilous and shaky through to the ardently innocent, ignoring the hysteria and excessive use of sensational adjectives, capital letters and heavy highlighting, until you come upon some sourced hard data. This can then be used. These articles contained bits and pieces of what was presented above, if one could be bothered sifting through them:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=391065&in_page_id=1770
http://www.wethepeople.la/diana13.htm
http://www.conspiracyresearch.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t535.html
http://www.public-interest.co.uk/diana/dianadfr.htm
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1998/diana_murder_2524.html
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijrdm/vol1n2/princess.xml
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/140304dyingwords.html
http://www.coverups.com/diana/french.htm
http://www.senderberl.com/diupdate.htm
http://www.senderberl.com/diupdate.htm
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