Diana why did spies visit the morgue

I don't remember ever voting for her to push her own personal ninny agenda onto my politicians. Post by banana True, the crash in itself didn't guarantee her death.

But it brought the car to a halt in the chosen place. Post by banana against a death squad in such circumstances - commissioned by interests that had friendly relations with the host State's authorities? Post by Ian Post by banana True, the crash in itself didn't guarantee her death.

Post by Ian I can say categorically that anything published by anybody following the death of the most photographed bird in the world, isn't likely to be particularly telling, accurate, or calm, reflective and informed. Post by banana There could be a view that the division between powerful interests evidenced by the burglary is in fact fake. In the rear compartment was a large dog wearing a red bandanna. We never reached it on J.

Maybe now we can on Diana. Stephan surmised that the car was likely from the western suburbs of Paris. In all, more than 5, vehicles were examined, but investigators never produced the car. The hunt for the Fiat did turn up a couple of intriguing leads.

At A. For reasons he never clearly explained, Thanh and his brother had repainted his white Fiat Uno and changed its bumpers shortly after the accident.

In short, everything seemed to point to Thanh as the phantom driver. But he had an alibi: on the weekend in question, he told police, he had been working as a night watchman at a Renault car lot in the northwestern suburb of Gennevilliers from seven P. Thanh was released several hours after his arrest. Another tantalizing suspect was James Andanson, a relentless paparazzo who had stalked the couple while they were yachting on the Mediterranean that summer.

Interestingly, the left-rear light had been replaced, and the original paint chemically matched the paint of the mystery car. Why would I want to hang around the Ritz and take the same photos everyone else could get?

A highway-toll receipt, his plane ticket, and a rental-car bill apparently convinced the investigators. But the Andanson dossier contains a striking inconsistency. On the other hand, if Andanson really was following Diana and Dodi around Paris that weekend, it was strange that none of the other paparazzi, or any other known witness, saw him there.

Chris Lafaille, a former Paris Match editor, tells me that Andanson had a lunch date with him in Paris on August 30, but called that morning to cancel it.

Was he in town that day? The shot was taken by a member of a team of paparazzi that included James Andanson, who was discovered burned to death in his car in May Two years after Stephan closed his investigation, a bizarre thing happened. The car was hidden in a thickly wooded area near the town of Millau, miles from his home. The circumstances of the death were very peculiar. As soon as I learned the identity of James Andanson, I told the investigating magistrate to do the maximum because it was an affair that could have links to the death of Diana.

The investigation concluded that the death was a suicide. Among the proofs was the fact that Andanson had bought a can of gasoline at a nearby service station on the day of his death. Others are not so sure. Suicide is only plausible when you are depressive. I am convinced he was killed by the French services, or British services, or someone else who wanted him dead.

Henrotte believes Andanson had at least an informal working relationship with British intelligence. Though he spoke no English, Andanson was an unabashed Anglophile, affecting British dress, flying the Union Jack over his house, and even changing his name from Jean-Paul to James.

He was aware of too many things. Among the people who knew Andanson best, such claims are greeted with ridicule. There were so many incredible coincidences in his life. Perhaps none at all, but it is another stone that Scotland Yard cannot leave unturned.

But there are enough titillating hints of intelligence-service involvement to feed the theories of those who choose to believe them. The presence of such protective surveillance, if it actually existed, is hardly proof of a plot.

Nonetheless, there are some signs of possible intelligence activity in connection with the case. Several of the French paparazzi spoke of a British photographer who had been milling around the Ritz and who had told them he worked for the Mirror —but the Mirror had no one in Paris that night.

Nor, curiously enough, have investigators identified any British photographers in the press pack. The Harrods tycoon believes that Paul's blood samples were swapped to portray him as a drunk in an elaborate cover-up by the establishment to stop Diana marrying Dodi, a Muslim. Stevens is expected to concede that while there was a mix-up it was an accident and that the original French post-mortem which found that Paul was three-times over the French drink-drive limit was correct.

He is also expected to discount the role of the white Fiat Uno which struck Diana's car shortly before the crash, even though British police officers have failed to track down the vehicle which left paintwork on the black Mercedes.

The inquiry will support the findings of the original French accident inquiry in criticising the paparazzi as a possible reason for encouraging Paul to speed. Judicial sources said he told Judge Stephan yesterday that Mr Henri Paul, the deputy head of security at the Ritz Hotel who drove the princess and her Egyptian boyfriend, Mr Dodi Fayed, to their deaths, was an MI6 agent and that one of the princess's two bodyguards was in contact with British intelligence. Mr Tomlinson was arrested by French police earlier this month, along with the former MI5 officer, Mr David Shayler, at the request of British authorities.

Both men were allegedly preparing to divulge secrets about the intelligence agencies for which they had worked. Mr Tomlinson was released and travelled to New Zealand in the interim. He saw Judge Stephan at his own request. Mr Shayler is still in detention while the French consider an extradition request from Britain. Sources question Mr Tomlinson's motives for making such claims about British intelligence so near to the first anniversary of Princess Diana's death.