Speaking in the Channel 4 documentary Investigating
In a new Channel 4 documentary series, Investigating Diana: Death In Paris, detectives from the 1997 French Brigade Criminelle discuss the Fiat Uno that was reportedly there at the time but was never traced.
Crucial parts of Princess Diana's crashed car were destroyed in a mystery fire which was covered up by the French. The news was only uncovered by the Daily Mirror seven years after the blaze happened in May 1999.
Diana's boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, also died in the crash, per CNN. The only survivor of the crash was Trevor Rees-Jones, who was Dodi's bodyguard. He was left in a coma for 10 days but is now the global head of security for AstraZeneca, according to the Daily Mail.
Fabrice Cuvillier, of the Brigade Criminelle, said the Fiat Uno exists, telling the programme: “It's not a hallucination. It's not something we threw out to create a diversion. It exists. “We did not find this Fiat.
Witnesses described that the car was going well over 90 mph, perhaps close to 120 mph, at the time, according to an Associated Press report from 1997, a few days after the crash. There is no surveillance camera footage of the crash, although there were cameras in the tunnel, the AP later reported.
They pursued their car to the Pont de l'Alma tunnel, where it crashed. Diana, Fayed, and driver Henri Paul were all killed.
What were Princess Diana's last words? The firefighter on the scene of Princess Diana's accident revealed the last words she spoke before her death in an interview with The Independent. According to the firefighter, Xavier Gourmelon, the Princess of Wales asked: “My God, what has happened?”
According to Oprah magazine, Diana suffered from a concussion, a broken arm, a cut thigh and massive chest injuries. After a two-hour operation to save her, the doctors failed to get Diana's heart to beat properly and she never regained consciousness. She died from internal bleeding at 4:53 a.m. on August 31, 1997.
Stephane Darmon, a motorcycle rider for one of the paparazzi who chased the couple's Mercedes through Paris, told the inquest that Paul had been "very joyful" as he taunted photographers outside the Ritz Hotel on the night of the crash.
Etoile Limousines owner Jean-Francois Musa was the proprietor of the vehicle that the Princess of Wales died in, alongside Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul, on Aug. 31, 1997. Musa, 63, is now claiming that French authorities have not allowed him to take back his missing Mercedes-Benz S280.
Prince Harry has revealed that he asked his chaffeur to drive through the Paris tunnel where his mother Princess Diana died in 1997, at the same speed of 65mph her car had been travelling at before the crash that killed her.
Diana, the former Princess of Wales has been buried at the Oval Lake at Althorp where her brother Earl Charles Spencer lives. Share this: Princess Diana sadly died after a car crash in Paris over 25 years ago, but her memory lives on in the royal family and the hearts of the nation.
Before the Mercedes Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were riding in crashed into one of the tunnel's concrete pillars, causing their deaths, the car brushed against a white Fiat Uno, which witnessed the crash but drove away into the night.
"There's no evidence that the brakes of her car were ever tampered with, and what it's doing is trying to illustrate her fears at the time. "Diana said that she feared that her brakes might be tampered with, she said that. On the record that's known," the royal expert continued. "But as far as we know they never were."
Princess Diana's fatal car crash in 1997 shocked the world. There was only one survivor, Diana's security guard, Trevor Rees-Jones.
Eight members of the Welsh Guards accompanied Diana's coffin on the one-hour-forty-seven-minute ride through London streets. On top of the coffin were three wreaths of white flowers from her brother, the Earl Spencer, and her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.
Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall. The Queen made it clear to Charles that he could not take his paramour to the service.
Diana's coffin was carried on a military gun carriage and accompanied by a military guard, but there were no other military touches. As it passed St. James's Palace, where the coffin had rested in private all week, the cortege was joined by Charles, William, Harry, Spencer and the Duke of Edinburgh.
According to reports at the time, Diana uttered her final words right after she was pulled from the wreckage of the crash, which occurred when Diana and her then-boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, were being pursued by paparazzi in their vehicle in Paris, France.
Katie Couric has revealed why she broke down in tears while covering Princess Diana\x27s funeral. Couric was struck by an envelope with \\\x22Mummy\\\x22 ... Yes, Prince Harry and Prince William both cried at their mother, Princess Diana\x27s, funeral.
Did Queen Elizabeth II cry at Diana's funeral? The Queen did not cry at Princess Diana's funeral, the late British monarch has only cried in public on a number of occasions.
British authorities agreed to return the limo to France after their probe. However, they tried to block the car's return to France following their investigation. After 17 months of attempts, the French prevailed and received the Mercedes-Benz.
Princess Diana's romance with Dodi Fayed, the Egyptian-born film magnate, was just beginning when the two died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997. Now, their relationship has taken centerstage in the fifth season of Netflix's The Crown.
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