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...that could hinge liability on the part of the Ritz. Paul's immediate supervisor was away that night. But why bring in Paul to drive? "Because Dodi trusted him," explains a Ritz staff member. In fact Dodi had trusted him all summer, with Paul personally overseeing security for Dodi, Diana and her sons during their July vacation in St.-Tropez. Ritz staff members suggest it was Paul who persuaded Dodi to let him drive and do what he thought he did best: shield the couple from the paparazzi...
...driven to the door. French police now say it was Dodi's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones who decided to switch drivers: to have Dourneau, who had driven the couple all day, take the wheel of the Range Rover to decoy the paparazzi and have Paul drive Dodi and Diana. It is impossible to judge from the jerky, heavily edited tape whether Paul was steady or wobbling as he prepared for his assignment. In the last image of him alive, Paul pulls away from the curb at a normal speed and heads down the rue Cambon...
...report had Dodi thrown from the car as well as robbed of money; another said a sapphire-and-diamond necklace was ripped from Diana's throat. Both are wrong. Police recovered a thousand francs from Dodi's body, which was jammed between the front two seats, his broken leg hanging at a 90[degree] angle. A pearl bracelet, a diamond ring--not the Repossi ring--and size-8 Versace black heels were recovered from Diana. Paul had 12,000 francs on his body...
...crashes," he said. From his apartment, he saw no motorbikes in the wake of the crash, though. Still, when the witness got to the crash site, he found photographers taking pictures and people starting to approach the wreck. In the car he could see the three men but not Diana, who had been thrown to the floor behind the front passenger seat. The witness spoke to the only man moving, Rees-Jones. "He had half his face ripped off. He was conscious and looked at me," he says. The witness ran from the tunnel and borrowed a mobile phone...
...that help was on the way; he interrupted himself to stop two bystanders, not photographers, from opening the car doors. "Don't do that. You can kill them if you move them," he warned. But he had come back too late to stop one paparazzo, Romauld Rat, from opening Diana's door and taking her pulse--and her picture. "A young North African man began shouting, saying it was wrong to take pictures and that he should help the victims instead...