| The Diana Crash: A 'Co-ordinated Pursuit'? |
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| Written by Joanne Leyland | ||||||||||
| Thursday, 23 February 2006 | ||||||||||
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The Daily Express
is again leading the field in its reporting of the investigation into
the death of Princess Diana with an extensive report in Thursday's
edition suggesting that an unidentified British spy is being hunted over claims he was involved in the events of August 31st 1997. According to the exclusive report, a man was witnessed "whipping the crowd into a frenzy as Diana and Dodi Fayed left" The Ritz hotel in Paris. The man then disappeared, seemingly without trace. The allegation is that the man behaved this way so as to set off a "co-ordinated pursuit" of Diana's car, resulting in the fatal crash.  It's also claimed that the team investigating the crash as part of the official British inquiry have quizzed spies who were at work in Paris around the time of Diana and boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed's deaths. It's long been claimed that high-class hotels such as The Ritz are breeding grounds for special agents. The suggestion is that staff who work here are perfect recruits for the security forces as they have access to the often famous and/or rich and powerful public figures who stay at such hotels. The Express repeats its claim from last week that at least one spy had "uncontrolled access" to Diana's body in the Paris morgue, where she was taken following her death at 3am British time on the morning of Sunday 31st August 1997. The newspaper claims, as it did last week, that "alarm is mounting at the highest levels about the nature of Lord Stevens' inquiry and the startling facts his team is uncovering."  On Thursday, The Sun too has a front page story about the Diana investigation. The paper is reporting on yet more startling opinions which Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, has voiced in an interview with America's CBS station. Al Fayed, whose Royal Warrants for Harrods were removed by the Palace in the wake of Diana's death and his allegations she was assassinated, is reported to have yet again called Prince Philip — who he again claims (without proof) was behind "the murder" of Diana and Dodi — "a Nazi" and "a gangster" and repeated his claim that Diana and Dodi had told him that the Princess was in the early stages of pregnancy. The 77-year-old millionaire businessman, who is yet to win his fight for a British passport, also says he fears MI6 will kill him and launches a personal attack on Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, saying she looks like "a crocodile." No doubt this latest in a long line of such interviews and allegations by Al Fayed will receive no acknowledgment from the Palace and royal courtiers. However, Al Fayed does seem to have faith in Operation Paget, the inquiry overseen by former Metropolitan Police Chief Stevens: "I have faith that Lord Stevens' investigation will come to the right conclusion." The Egyptian-born owner of Harrods also now speaks of another theory, one which has long interested those who have followed the case. James Andanson was a millionaire paparazzo famous for chasing the rich and famous, especially British and European royals. In May 2000, the photographer was discovered dead in his burnt out car in woodland in France. At the time the assumption was that he had killed himself. However, it has since been claimed that 54-year-old Andanson may have been the owner of the mysterious Fiat Uno which is known to have clipped the Mercedes carrying Diana and Dodi, tests on the paintwork of his car having been remarkably close to the scratches of paint left on the Mercedes. Now, Mohamed Al Fayed is claiming that Andanson was part of the plot to "murder" his son and Diana, saying: "Andanson was working for the secret services. A few years later he was found dead in a burnt-out car in the South of France. They {the secret services} feared he'd sell them out, and look what happened to him." Interestingly, the Daily Express — perhaps aware that their innovative reporting of the Diana investigation is resulting in headlines around the world — ends their report by publishing, for the first time, a promise: "The Daily Express has covered the twists and turns of this complicated inquiry and we will leave no stone unturned in our quest for the truth." Please feel welcome to offer your opinions on this and any other royal story by visiting our Royal Forum or via our Comments section below. Comment on this article
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