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17 years without Princess Diana

Like today, Princess Diana and her companion, Dodi Al Fayed died in a car accident caused by a paparazzi chase through the streets of the French capital

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On the 31st of August 1997, Princess Diana and her companion, Dodi Al Fagent killed in a traffic accident in the tunnel Pont d’Alma in Paris, when their  driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, lost control of the car in an attempt to escape the paparazzi which were chasing them.

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Conspiracy scenarios
For the death of Princess Diana’s previously have been released various conspiracy scenarios, but ultimately the French authorities closed the file in 1999 after an 18-month research-on the grounds that it was a car accident, which was caused by the paparazzi and the amount of alcohol found in the blood of driver Paul.

Diana Inquest

Last year in August, the Scotland Yard reopened the file on the circumstances of the death of Princess Diana, after a tip of a former special forces soldier revealed to his family.

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The key witness with the name “N Soldier”, had reportedly told in confidence to his ex-wife that his unit had “organized” the death of the Princess. The information was provided to Scotland Yard by the former soldiers in-laws.

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The father of Dodi Al Fagent, Mohammed never believed that the death of his son and Princess Diana was an accident. In its official submission to the court made ​​in 2008, the causes of the accident in Paris, he said that their death was a cold-blooded murder, organized from the palace. The billionaire Mohamed Al Fagente told the court that he knew that Diana was pregnant and she would get engaged to his son, something that the royal family would not leave unpunished.

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