LONDON (Reuters) - An author given access to the official French report on the death of Britain's Princess Diana was quoted as saying it dismissed "fevered speculation" about her fatal car crash and final emergency care. 
Martyn Gregory, writing in Britain's Daily Mail newspaper on Saturday, said he had seen the 6,000-page police report during his research for a television documentary on Diana's death in Paris in 1997. 
He quoted one ambulance official as telling the report: "Diana had no chance of making it." 
"The accident was too violent. The internal injuries she suffered were incompatible with life," the official added. 
Diana, whose marriage to Prince Charles broke down in 1992 and ended in divorce, was killed with her lover Dodi al Fayed and driver Henri Paul after their car hit an underpass pillar. 
A summary of the French inquiry was released in 1999, concluding the crash was caused by Paul being drunk and driving too fast. 
The report will be part of the evidence considered by Royal Coroner Michael Burgess and Britain's most senior policeman John Stevens, who are conducting an official British inquiry into Diana's death. 
The French findings failed to silence Dodi's father, Mohamed al Fayed, owner of London department store Harrods, who alleges Diana was killed in a deliberate plot with his son because their relationship was embarrassing the royal household. 
Gregory, who has written two books about Diana's death, said the report dispelled claims that the ambulance which took her to hospital was driven deliberately slowly to reduce her chances of surviving. 
He said medics quoted in the dossier said Diana had suffered a heart attack at the scene of the early morning crash and that problems with her blood pressure meant she was too ill for the ambulance to go any faster. 
It took an hour and a three-quarters to get Diana to hospital, where she died at 4 a.m. after suffering a second heart attack. 
Gregory said the report also disproved claims that the blood samples which showed Paul was three times over the French drink-drive limit had been switched or taken from another body. 
Gregory told the paper the report deployed "the full and painstaking armory of modern investigative techniques which address all of the fevered speculation that has arisen."

Friday, 23 January 2004 / from Yahoo.com
French dossier on Diana crash points to drunk driver 

LONDON, (AFP) - The huge French dossier on the car crash that killed Princess Diana reveals that her driver was more than three times over the drink-drive limit, the Daily Mail newspaper says.
In what it called the first look by a journalist at the 6,000-page file, it said two blood tests were carried out on Henri Paul, who was at the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz limousine that crashed in the Pont d'Alma underpass in Paris in August 1997, killing him, Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed. 
The second test, according to the French dossier, confirmed "to within a tenth of a milligram" the results of the first test -- that Paul was more than three times over the French drink-drive limit of 0.50 grams of alcohol per litre of blood, with a reading of 1.75 grams. 
"Furthermore, tests on Paul's eye fluid showed a level of 1.73, removing all doubt that he was seriously drunk," said the Daily Mail, in a lengthy report by Martyn Gregory, author of "Diana: The Last Days". 
"The dossier contains chilling photos of Paul's corpse," the newspaper added. "It is undoubtedly him, and the naked, overweight body has long lines of stitching from his neck to his groin where the pathologist removed his organs for analysis." 
The towering stack of French evidence has been transferred to royal coroner Michael Burgess, who earlier this month opened the first British investigation into the late-night crash that killed Diana one year after her divorce from Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne. 
Following a two-year investigation, the French authorities concluded in 1999 that the accident was mainly due to Paul driving too fast under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs. 
But conspiracy theories persist, with Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of Harrods department store in London and the Paris Ritz hotel in Paris, alleging that the couple were the victims of a high-level murder plot. 
Successive legal actions in France launched by Al Fayed delayed the start of the British inquests, though the Egyptian-born tycoon is seeking a separate inquiry in Scotland, where he has a Highland home. 
The Daily Mail, Britain's second most widely read newspaper, said the French dossier contains "scores of pages" devoted to a white Fiat Uno car that was supposedly in the Pont d'Alma underpass at the time of the crash. 
"The dossier has photos of the fragments of broken glass from a Fiat tail light... retrieved from the Alma tunnel that confirmed the forensic analysis of the scratches on the Mercedes," it said. 
The Fiat was never found, however, and "the investigation concluded that the Uno did not cause the crash," the newspaper said. 
As for speculation that Diana was pregnant with Fayed's baby when she died, the Daily Mail said "the dossier does nothing to dispel this notion" simply because French investigators never carried out tests to determine if she was. 
Gregory, who has made a documentary on Diana's death, recalled that the royal coroner in 1997, John Burton, opened her uterus during a post-mortem after her body was returned to Britain and found no evidence of a foetus.

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's most senior police officer, probing the death of Princess Diana more than six years ago in Paris, has said he is prepared to question members of the British royal family including Prince Charles, Diana's former husband, about her death. 
Asked on BBC News 24's HardTalk programme whether his inquiries would involve questioning the royal family, Sir John Stevens, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said: "If that's necessary, we'll do that". 
Then, asked in the interview -- which was picked up Friday by Britain's Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail newspapers -- if he would quiz Charles, Stevens replied: "Absolutely". 
Police in Britain were called in on January 6 to look into the fatal car crash of Princess Diana as it emerged that she had feared Prince Charles was out to harm her. 
Opening the first British probe into the death of "the people's princess", coroner Michael Burgess said he had asked Stevens to delve into unrelenting speculation that the deaths of Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed were more than just an accident. 
"As a police officer, you don't start off with any theories, you go where the evidence takes you," Stevens said in the interview Thursday. 
"You have my word we will look at this and by the time this inquiry has been finished and we've looked at every single part of these allegations, we will Know what the truth of the matter is and then we will disclose that to the coroner," Stevens said.

LONDON - A woman who witnessed the car crash in which Princess Diana died has described the driver of a white Fiat she says was at the scene and behaving strangely, according to a Sunday newspaper. 
The People tabloid quoted Souad Mouffakir of Paris, saying she had been in a car driven by Mohamed Medjahdi ahead of the princess's Mercedes in a Paris road tunnel. Medjahdi was quoted by a different newspaper on Thursday describing the accident and saying there were no other cars there. 
Tests have confirmed the Mercedes carrying Diana and her companion, Dodi Fayed, had a brush with a Fiat Uno before crashing in the tunnel Aug. 31, 1997. It is not known to what extent it might have been involved in the crash. French police questioned almost 3,000 owners of Fiat Unos. 
Mouffakir is quoted as saying the Fiat came up very fast alongside the car she was in, then slowed down so they were side by side. 
She described the driver as in his mid-thirties, Mediterranean, "short because his head was only just above the steering wheel," and with very dark brown, wiry hair. 
"He had a very strange expression, like his mind was thinking about something else," she was quoted as saying. "I thought he was a madman." 
She said she told Medjadhi to speed away and that "a moment later we heard the screech of tires," the newspaper said. She said she looked around and saw the Mercedes slide out of control, come toward them, then hit a pillar. 
"I looked for the Fiat but it had disappeared. The Mercedes must have gone out of control trying to avoid it," she was quoted as saying. 
The newspaper said Mouffakir had remained silent since 1997 because she was afraid of being killed, but it did not indicate whom she feared. 
It said she had split three years ago from Medjahdi. 
He was quoted earlier this week as telling the Daily Mail newspaper, "there was no other vehicle in my field of vision. I saw no cars with the Mercedes, no photographers on motorbikes around the car. There was no one." 

PARIS - A witness to the crash that killed Princess Diana described a horrific scene of screeching brakes, flying car parts and an impact that sounded like an explosion — and is "absolutely convinced" it was an accident, according to reports Thursday. 
The witness, identified as Mohamed Medjahdi, told French weekly Paris Match and Britain's Daily Mail tabloid that he was driving in front of the Mercedes carrying Diana before the Aug. 31, 1997, crash in a tunnel under Paris' Pont de l'Alma bridge. 
There have been few — if any — complete eyewitness accounts of the crash. The only surviving occupant of the car carrying Diana, bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, has said he does not remember the crash. Medjahdi, of the suburban Val d'Oise region, recalled how he and his girlfriend, identified only as Souad M., were riding through the tunnel and listening to loud rap music in a Citroen compact when the crash occurred. 
Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul were killed in the crash, which a French court ruled was an accident caused by Paul's speeding and being under the influence of alcohol. 
Last week, Britain's royal coroner launched the country's first formal inquest into the deaths and asked police in London to examine a variety of conspiracy theories that have sprung up. Some people believe Diana was the victim of a conspiracy, variously pointing to the royal family and intelligence agencies. 
But Medjahdi disagrees. 
"Any conspiracy would have had to be carried out by invisible men," Medjahdi told the British daily. "I am absolutely convinced, clear and certain, that this was an accident." 
Medjahdi said Diana's car was going so fast he had to speed up to avoid being hit. 
Quoted in the Daily Mail, Medjahdi said: "I heard the terrible noise of screeching brakes and screaming tires and saw a big car slewing, out of control, across the highway behind me and hurtling toward my car." 
"I saw part of the car go flying," he told Paris Match. 
Medjahdi said the impact sounded like a huge explosion and saw the limousine bounce from a concrete pillar to the tunnel wall, according to the Daily Mail. 
"It was a dreadful sound, like a bomb exploding, magnified and echoing around the underpass," he was quoted as saying. 
In its report, Paris Match also quoted former French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement as saying he had held out hope that Diana would survive immediately after the crash. 
"She was in a coma, but still alive," said Chevenement, who was on hand at Saltpetriere hospital when the ambulance containing Diana arrived. "Her face was intact. She was not at all disfigured." 
"At that moment, I never imagined that it was so serious and that she would die a few hours later," he was quoted as saying. 
Paris Match and the Daily Mail reported that Medjahdi was questioned by investigators. Paris police would not confirm it, saying it was their policy not to release witnesses' names. 
Repeated attempts by The Associated Press to reach Medjahdi at a telephone number listed for his home in suburban Paris were unsuccessful. 

Saturday, 10 January 2004 / from Yahoo.com
Diana Driver's Blood Sample Questioned

LONDON - British police have doubts about the authenticity of the blood sample that led French investigators to conclude drunk driving caused the car crash that killed Princess Diana, a newspaper reported Saturday. 
The Times of London reported that senior officers were concerned that no DNA test was conducted to prove the blood sample belonged to Henri Paul, chauffeur of the car that crashed in a Paris underpass on Aug. 31, 1997. 
Princess Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and Paul were all killed in the crash, which a French court ruled in 2002 was an accident caused by Paul's speeding and being under the influence of alcohol. 
A police spokesman said Saturday the force had no comment on the Times report. 
French police inspector Jean-Claude Mules, who played a central role in the investigation, told The Times there was no mistake about the blood sample. "We are very serious people and no errors are allowed," he was quoted as saying. 
Many people continue to believe that Diana was the victim of a conspiracy, however, variously pointing to the royal family and intelligence agencies. 
British coroner Michael Burgess, who opened an inquest into the deaths of the princess and Fayed this week, has asked London's Metropolitan Police to investigate whether there is any evidence the deaths were not the result of a "straightforward road traffic accident." 
The Times said there were "high-level concerns" that Paul's blood could have been mixed up with another sample in a laboratory or the mortuary where his body was taken. 
It said the sample tested contained extremely high levels of carbon monoxide that could have rendered Paul incapable of driving. 
Fayed's father, Mohammed Al Fayed, and Paul's parents have repeatedly said they are not convinced the blood sample tested was Paul's and have drawn attention to the high carbon monoxide level. 
A French court-designated expert said in 1999 that the carbon monoxide level was due to Paul inhaling gas from the car's air bags. 

LONDON - Princess Diana was not pregnant when she died, a former royal coroner says, apparently ruling out one of the rumors which has swirled around her death in a car crash six years ago. 
Dr. John Burton, who was the royal coroner at the time, said he was present at a post-mortem examination after her body was returned from Paris, The Times newspaper reported in Wednesday's editions. 
"I was actually present when she was examined. She wasn't pregnant. I know she wasn't pregnant," the newspaper quoted him as saying. 

Tuesday, 6th January 2004 2:34 pm
Rumours about an alleged conspiracy against Lady Di

London: On the same day as the opening of the inquest into Princess Diana's death more than six years ago, the "Daily Mirror" published the name of the Royal who was suspected by Diana to be planning a conspiracy against her. Other newspapers did not publish the name because of legal reasons. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said Prince Charles rejected a statement. In an autobiography which was published last October, Diana's butler Paul Burrell quoted the letter which is said to be written by Lady Di ten months before she died. It includes the statement that somebody was planning an attack looking like a car accident to make the way clear for the marriage of Prince Charles and his mistress Camilla Parker Bowles. The name was blacked out but the Mirror released it. Burrell criticized that because it had not been arranged.
Diana is quoted in the letter: "This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous - X (blacked out so far) is planning 'an accident' in my car. Brake failure and serious head injuries" 

Tuesday, 6th January 2004; 1:26 pm
Diana's Death: First inquest opened in GB

London: After more than six years after Princess Diana's death, inquiries started in the UK.
Coroner Michael Burgess opened the inquest in London on Tuesday. He asked the London Police to make inquiries whether there should be a another more detailed inquest because of criminal circumstances.
Burgess adjourned the proceedings afterwards and said they would be continued at the beginning of next year. He went on that the inquest would be about four main questions: "who the dead person was and how, when and where the cause of death took place."
He explained that the reason for adjourning the inquest was that he had to wait for the transmission of the documents from France being completed. Furthermore, many possible witnesses lived abroad which would lead to a delay.
Mohamed al Fayed, the father of Diana's lover Dodi al Fayed felt relieved about the beginning of the inquest. According to APTN, a TV channel, he said: "For that I have been waiting for six years." He also said that the fatal accident in August 1997 had happened because of an attack. An other inquest into the death of Dodi al Fayed ought to be opened today, on Tuesday.
Diana's former bodyguard, Ken Wharfe rejected speculations about a conspiracy. He told the TV channel ITV: "The Princess of Wales died in an ordinary road accident." There were no evidence for an attack.
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne said he and his sons, the Princes William and Harry were "very satisfied because the inquiries finally started." Charles did not attend the opening of the inquest.
Sarah McQuorquodale, one of Diana's sisters was in the conference centre when the inquiry was opened.
Three photographers were acquitted by a Parisian court at the end of November. The defendants took photos of the victims in their Mercedes at the night of the accident. French judges came to the conclusion that the chauffeur Henri Paul who was also killed, was drunk and drove the car too fast.

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