Word: stephane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Last week, scientists submitted a partial report containing the new information to Judge Herve Stephan, who is investigating the case, the sources said. For weeks, police have been combing through records of about 112,000 Fiat Unos registered in the Paris area. The presence of the "second car" was revealed after shards of glass from an Uno's headlights were found on the scene...
Lawyers for the photographers say they expect both the manslaughter and nonassistance charges against their clients to be dropped before the case goes to trial. Judge Stephan is unlikely to take any such step until the investigation is further along. It is possible that the photographers will be found to have different degrees of culpability. Already the judge has singled out two photographers, Rat and Martinez, for harsh treatment. Both men had to pay bail and had their press cards suspended...
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...
...initial postaccident inspection by police experts showed the car to have been in good mechanical condition. But the final verdict on that question may have to wait until investigators have completely dismantled and inspected the car part by part. In the past few days, experts reportedly sent Judge Stephan a series of "observations" about the car's braking system...
...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...