Diana witness denies murder theory
LONDON, England (AP) — A man who was among the first to arrive at the scene of the crash that killed Princess Diana told an inquest Wednesday that he thought it might have been a terrorist attack. His companion said her first reaction was that it was a movie set.
Testifying by video-link from the Court of Appeal in Paris, Antonio Lopes Borges denied a lawyer’s suggestion that he had told his companion, Ana Simao, that he thought it might be an assassination.
The issue arose as a coroner’s inquest resumed in London following a trip to Paris, where the jury saw key scenes, including the Ritz Hotel, which Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed left shortly after midnight on Aug. 31, 1997, and the Pont d’Alma tunnel, where they were fatally injured when their car crashed into a pillar.
Fayed’s father, Mohamed al Fayed, contends that the couple was assassinated in a plot orchestrated by Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.
Richard Keen, a lawyer representing the family of Henri Paul, the driver who also died in the crash, put it to Lopes Borges that he had told Simao that he thought the crash might be an assassination.
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