Word: paparazzi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...m.p.h., Paul was covering between 102 ft. and 132 ft. per sec.) One close-range witness of the accident said a motorcycle following the Mercedes slowed down, passed the wrecked car, then accelerated and continued on its way. Police have yet to determine just how close the paparazzi were to the Mercedes in the final moments, but they now doubt that any of them actually touched it before the crash...
Police and eyewitness reports and even the accounts of some of the photographers agree on this point: the paparazzi were in a state of excitement bordering on frenzy. Two of them in particular got into a heated argument, with one photographer reportedly shouting at another, "It's your fault!" One of them, described by witnesses as among the most "aggressive," grabbed the arm of one of the police officers, who was trying to move him back from the scene...
...panic, like one usually finds at accident scenes." Dressed in a white T shirt and white jeans that were soon spattered with the princess' blood, Mailliez put an oxygen mask over her face while a former volunteer fireman supported Rees-Jones' bloody head in his hands. Mailliez said the paparazzi had not hindered him in his work. He left once the first emergency firefighters' unit arrived at 12:32 a.m., about seven minutes after the accident...
...several of the photographers declared Paul's behavior "bizarre." He emerged from the Ritz on several occasions to chat with the paparazzi and even told them the couple would be coming out after dinner. He was so voluble at least two photographers suspected he had been drinking. Another source who knows Paul well and was with him that night found him "chattier than usual...
Judge Stephan probably has months to go before he buckles up his dossier and decides whether to send the case to trial. But when the work of the investigators is done--whatever the attendant circumstances, whatever the role of the paparazzi, whatever the truth about the second car--they are likely to determine that this was a road accident caused by very familiar villains: speed, alcohol and bad judgment. An all-too-ordinary tragedy for an uncommon princess...