In a shock US report out today, an alleged witness at the scene of Princess Diana’s fatal Paris car crash 22 years ago is quoted as making sensational allegations about what the princess supposedly said moments before she died.
The alleged eye witness – who is notably not named – is quoted by US publication Globe as saying that the princess stated words to the effect that she believed she had been targeted for the accident.
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‘When I first saw her, she was moaning in pain, but conscious,’ the anonymous source is quoted as recounting in the magazine.
‘She seemed dazed and disoriented and, at first…I heard her ask, “My God, what’s happened?”
‘She was told she’d been in a terrible car crash and to lie still. She was quiet for a few heartbeats, then gasped in pain.
‘Her eyes narrowed, and she whispered, “He’s killed me! That bloody bastard has killed me. Now what will happen to my boys …” and she drifted off.’
The alleged witness reportedly added: ‘I was in tears — praying, hoping she’d survive. I made the sign of the cross as she was put into the ambulance.’
It should be noted that the outrageous allegation that Diana spoke of being ‘killed’ does not correspond with any previous accounts of events by the confirmed witnesses at the scene.
In January 2018 Globe quoted and named a witness, Fire Sergeant Xavier Gourmelon, who they identified as one of the first to attend the scene of the shocking crash in a Parisian tunnel.
His quotes did not include the sensationalistic allegations contained in the latest report – with no mention at all of Diana’s alleged belief she’s been targeted for death.
Indeed, the trained paramedic is quoted in the publication as saying that the much-loved royal’s final words were, ‘Oh my God, what’s happened?’
According to Globe, Gourmelon said he was shocked to learn that the princess later died, initially believing that her injuries were ‘nothing insignificant’.
‘I could see she had a slight shoulder injury to her right shoulder, but other than that there was nothing significant – there was no blood on her art all.
‘I tried to calm her… she was moving her left arm which was free, but her right was trapped. I held her hand.’
When he and a doctor removed Diana from the wreckage, they needed to restart her heart.
‘At that moment the doctor told us her heart had stopped. So we started giving her heart massage, two of us, and her heart started beating almost immediately.
‘We put her in the ambulance.’
While an investigation into the crash found that the princess – who was not wearing a seatbelt when her speeding car came to grief – died of her injuries, conspiracy theories continue to circulate that she was murdered. Fuel has recently been added by claims she did not seem fatally injured when she was removed from the scene.
Renowned expert Dr Richard Shepherd, who has worked on 26,000 cases, has cast light on the 1997 passing of the royal.
‘She was involved in a relatively low-speed impact in a very safe vehicle, and yet she was the one that was injured least in that impact,’ Dr Shepherd told The Morning Show.
The car crash also infamously killed Di’s lover Dodi Fayed, driver Henri Paul, and left bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones severely injured.
‘When people first got there [the scene of the accident], she was actually talking and able to communicate, and seemed to be OK.
‘But on her journey to hospital she became worse and worse, and actually needed emergency thoracic surgery – and it was all caused by a tiny tear in a vein within her lungs, and that’s a really unusual injury.’
With many conspiracy theories swirling about whether the crash was really an accident or perhaps an elaborate assassination, Shepherd says the simple fact is that the princess would have survived the crash had she taken a basic safety precaution.
‘Had she been wearing a seatbelt she would have walked out of the car,’ he affirms.
As for the alleged motivation for a possible assassination, Shepherd was asked if there was any chance she could have been carrying a baby at the time of her death; was Princess Diana really pregnant when she died?
‘I’ve seen no evidence,’ Shepherd says. ‘I’ve seen all of the medical and pathologic information, and I’ve seen absolutely nothing to support that she was pregnant.’
Diana’s son Prince Harry has said of the claims surrounding her death, ‘… whatever happened in that tunnel, you know, no one will ever know.’
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