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...pulling up in front of the Ritz. Though there was enough space there to park a couple of moving vans, Paul curiously executed several unnecessary back-and-forth maneuvers. It was then about 10:08. Exactly what he did during the more than two hours it took Di and Dodi to finish their meal is unclear. The French daily Liberation last week quoted an unnamed Ritz employee saying Paul cooled his heels in the hotel's Hemingway bar drinking pastis. When Paul got up to go, says the paper, he staggered and "knocked into a customer." The article also said...
...actually gave the orders remains a mystery--and on 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...
...final glimpses of Paul on the video inside the hotel show him walking in the corridor, talking with Dodi's security guards and, at the end of the footage, waiting at the back entrance for the Mercedes S-280 to be 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...
...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...
...neither he nor the Spencers are saying more. Last week the Paris daily Le Parisien quoted an unnamed doctor as saying Diana's last words, as an oxygen mask was put over her face, were "Leave me alone." But this "witness" is also the one who incorrectly claimed that Dodi's body was thrown 60 ft. from the car. Lies, conspiracy theories and outrageous tales abound. An emergency-service doctor has told TIME that an associate at the scene that night said Diana was in a "Class-1 coma," drifting in and out of consciousness and at one point saying...