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...saddled her not only with a reckless, daredevil drunk-driver, but also an emergency care system that -- by wasting precious time treating her at the scene, instead of rushing her to the hospital -- proved disastrous for dealing with her type of injury. So say TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton and Middle East Correspondent Scott MacLeod in their new book, Death of A Princess: The Investigation. In extracts published exclusively in TIME magazine, Sancton and MacLeod reveal how Diana's injury, a torn pulmonary vein, is survivable. But, as one American doctor says, "time is of the essence." It took...
...what of Henri Paul, the chauffeur so loaded with alcohol that his vision may have been blurred as he smashed into the Alma tunnel's 13th pillar? Sancton and MacLeod reveal Paul's history of daredevil stunts in passenger planes, and how his final stunt was to drink whiskey-strength aperitifs -- right under the noses of Dodi Fayed's bodyguards. Another irony: Mohammed Al-Fayed, in his first post-crash interview, tells Sancton and MacLeod how he begged Dodi not to go from the rear of the hotel with a substitute driver. Dodi didn't heed Mohammed's advice...
With Scott MacLeod, Sancton is co-author of the forthcoming Death of a Princess: The Investigation from St. Martin's Press
BORDEAUX: A French court Friday freed accused Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon for the duration of his trial. The move, according to TIME Paris Bureau Chief Tom Sancton, makes it less likely that Papon will ever serve time. "Even if he?s convicted," says Sancton, "he?ll remain free through an appeal process that could take as long as two years." This would mean the ailing 87-year-old would not be imprisoned until he was 90 ? which may make authorities less inclined to jail...
...trial, over whether Papon ordered the deportation of Jews, represents France?s last chance to examine a shameful period in its history. ?This is not just a trial of the actions of an individual," Sancton says. "It?s being structured to allow France to air its dirty linen.? Papon, however, may no longer be hung...