New Explosive Evidence in Princess Diana Investigation
EIR: Now, Jeff, you personally
are probably the world's
leading authority--I hope you won't take it amiss, but--you are
personally probably the world's leading authority on the
assassination, or what other people call the ``accidental death''
of Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales in Paris. I understand
that there's been new developments on that case.
JEFF STEINBERG: Yes. For
about a month, the French
government, working in concert with Tony Blair, and with the
monarchy, the tremendous power of what Princess Diana used to
call ``The Firm,'' the British Establishment structures around
the monarchy, all of those forces have been working in concert to
wipe this story out of the media. Their concern is that as long
as there is a popular memory of Princess Diana, and the
unanswered questions about the crash in Paris August 31st of last
year, that there's a danger of literally revolutionary social
ferments on the streets of Britain. The ten million people who
turned out for her funeral, really scared the royal family, and
the political establishment, and the City of London, to no end.
It was as if virtual reality had been replaced by some element of
reality.
So, there's been two things
going on, over the past month's
period: a systematic, highly organized, top-down media blackout
of any news on this story. Number two, preparations are underway
to launch a whole new series of very vicious attacks against
Mohammed al-Fayedh, the father of Dodi Fayedh. And he, of course,
brought the whole tempo of developments around the case to a kind
of a fevered pitch in February, when he gave a lengthy interview
to the {Daily Mirror,} in which he said he's 99.9 percent certain
it was murder. And, I frankly happen to agree with him, and I'm
privy to less evidence than he has, because he was given access
to the entire magistrate's file in Paris.
Now, what happened just
in the last several days, I believe
it was actually announced on the 21st of April, is that the
investigating magistrate, Herve Stephan, is convening a rather
extraordinary judicial event at the Palace of Justice in Paris,
on June 5th. He's bringing together 20 or so of the key
eyewitnesses to the crash, people who saw events in the seconds
and moments leading up to the crash, people who saw what happened
immediately afterwards. At least 20. He's bringing the nine
paparazzi who now stand potentially indicted on manslaughter
charges for their involvement.
There's going to be, what
in the official French judicial
parlance is called a confrontation. And, what they do, is, have
all of the witnesses, some of whom have conflicting memories
about what they saw, or have contradictory evidence about what
occurred. They're all going to be in the same room at the same
time, interrogated by the judge in a kind of a roundtable format,
and the judge wants to make sure that, to the extent it's
possible, with the kind of a real-live diagram of the scene, to
try to get some of the still-disturbing critical unanswered
questions resolved.
Now, I think it's also very
significant, and I think {EIR}
can take a certain amount of credit for this, that Judge Stephan
has also ordered a complete review of the file of the emergency
medical response at the scene, because we've written, since
November of last year, that Princess Diana's life could have been
saved by competent emergency medical care after the crash. She
was still alive. She was correctly diagnosed as having serious
internal bleeding.
EIR: She walked out of the car, if I remember.
JEFF STEINBERG: Briefly,
she staggered around out of the car
before collapsing back in again. But it took nearly two hours to
get her into the one place where she had a chance to survive,
namely, an emergency room operating table, where they could
repair the damaged veins and arteries. The delay in that cost her
her life. And now the judge, under the pressure of cogent public
evidence that that's indeed what happened, he's ordered a
thorough review of who did what to whom, and why it happened.
Now, this is very important,
because while one may tend to
focus on the doctors, the nurses, the ambulance drivers, those
kinds of things, as we've emphasized ever since November of last
year, the fact is that the chief of police of Paris was in the
tunnel. One of the very first people, officially, to arrive after
the crash.
EIR: Just unbelievable. She
died in front of--well, she died
at the hospital, but she was dying in front of all these top
officials of the French government.
JEFF STEINBERG: That's right.
Chevenement, the interior
minister, who may be a good guy opposing the Euro, but in this
case, has really got blood on his hands as far as I'm concerned,
he was at the Pitie Salpetriere Hospital an hour before Diana
was brought there, in communication with Massoni, the police
chief, who was inside the tunnel, at the scene, as was the head
of the criminal brigades, which is the police unit in charge of
the investigation, the raw, sort of Inspector Clouseau side of
the investigation, the gathering up of the forensic technical
stuff.
So, it's very significant.
This is not merely an
investigation into a medical doctor, or an ambulance driver who
made a bad judgment call. It's high-level French government
officials. This can bring the French government down.
EIR: It's like the Dreyfus
case. I mean, it isn't the
Dreyfus case, but it can bring it down, as the Dreyfus case did
100 years ago.
JEFF STEINBERG: That's exactly
right. And so June 5th, mark
it on your calendar, a very important date. And, even if the
blackout continues between now and then, I can assure you
there'll be explosive developments on the Diana front then.
I was recently in London.
I was interviewed on a TV show
that's going to be airing towards the end of May, which I think
is going to also contribute, in some small way, to breaking the
blackout, at least in England, on the case.
So, this is something, again,
that's going to be a very hot
development, very soon.