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...ROLE OF THE PAPARAZZI. To date, nine photographers and one photo-agency motorcycle driver have been formally placed under investigation on charges of manslaughter and failure to assist persons in danger, a felony under French law. Police are still looking for other photographers believed to have fled the accident scene. Testimony on the photographers' role in provoking the accident varies widely. Most of the paparazzi say the Mercedes left them hundreds of yards behind after its turn from the Place de la Concorde onto the riverside expressway leading to the Alma tunnel, but several witnesses claim that some of them...
...least four witnesses interrogated by police immediately after the accident reported seeing a large motorcycle following closely behind the Mercedes. One of them spoke of a motorcycle with two passengers, a possible reference to photographer Romuald Rat and his driver, Stephane Darmon, on their Honda 650. A number of the photographers admit to following the Mercedes aboard motorcycles, scooters and cars. But they all claim to have fallen far behind when driver Henri Paul accelerated in the final straightaway. (At his estimated speed of 70 to 90 m.p.h., Paul was covering between...
...CHOICE OF DRIVER. Lab results released last week indicate that Henri Paul, the Ritz's 41-year-old deputy security director, had been in a state of "moderate chronic alcoholism" for at least eight days. Tests of hair samples, moreover, show that Paul had been regularly ingesting Prozac (since May) and tiapridal (since July), a combination of drugs commonly prescribed for the treatment of alcoholism. Earlier tests had shown that Paul had drunk the equivalent of nine shots of whiskey before taking the wheel of the Mercedes. How could his state have escaped the attention of the people around...
Whose idea was it, then, to put Paul in the driver's seat that night? During his initial questioning by Judge Stephan on Sept. 19, Rees-Jones said it was "Dodi who called Henri Paul so he could drive us from the rear of the hotel." It was Dodi as well, said Rees-Jones, who "changed the plan" and decided to send his regular chauffeur, Philippe Dourneau, and another driver off in two decoy vehicles while Paul whisked the couple away in a different car. Rees-Jones reiterated those statements last week, and fellow bodyguard Wingfield confirms that Dodi made...
When the whole astonishing affair began, Khaled Meshal didn't even realize he'd been targeted. The Jordanian-based political chief of the radical Palestinian group Hamas was walking from his car to his office in Amman when two pedestrians passed close by. Meshal's driver and bodyguard, Mohammed Abu Saif, though, saw one of the men put some kind of device wrapped in cloth up to Meshal's head. And so Abu Saif jumped into the car, caught up to the two and fought them viciously until a passing police patrol arrested all three. The driver's story seemed...