Fayed 'to blame for Diana's death'

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Fayed 'to blame for Diana's death'
By Caroline Davies
(Filed: 29/08/2005)

Mohammed Fayed personally authorised the "idiotic" plan that led to the deaths of his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales in a car crash in Paris, a former bodyguard claimed yesterday.

The Harrods owner had "blamed everyone but himself" for the crash, said Kez Wingfield, one of the bodyguards assigned to the couple during their ill-fated holiday.


Kez Wingfield follows Diana at the Ritz on the night she died
"I think he does that in public because the truth he carries in private is too much to bear," said Mr Wingfield.

"With his son bent on fleeing the paparazzi, it was he who authorised the idiotic change of plan that turned the couple's orderly departure from the Ritz hotel into a back-door car chase that ended in their deaths."

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[MADem]

1. Is Mohamed Fayed being swiftboated???

I think it was a combination of bad luck, poor judgment, and aggressive photographers. I cannot imagine Dodi's dad personally making these sorts of arrangements.

What they should have done was put it out that they were in a top floor suite, turn on a few lights, have a few people tromp around up there so you could see movement from the windows, whilst they left in the back of a linen van, or some such.

This insistence on the part of celebrities to always travel in fancy vehicles is their undoing. A plumber's truck can come and go, and no one even notices...

Clint Eastwood used to drive around in the shittiest cars I have ever seen (I understand they were mechanically sound, just the bodies looked like hell). I used to live near Carmel, and I would see him in a faded red truck and a crappy station wagon with that fake wood on the sides all the time. No one, save hyper-observant me, gave him a second glance.

[Missy M]

2. I think it would be easier to have your photo taken than the....

elaborate schemes to get away from the paparazzi. I am always amazed at the lengths celebrities will go not to have their photo taken. I guess their privacy is being invaded but if they are out in public I don't see how they can avoid it. It's funny because when their celebrity fades they will do anything to get back in the news.

[AzDar]

3. They weren't wearing SEATBELTS. n/t

[rbjensen]

4. I'm a medic...

and I never NEVER unbuckled a dead man. But you know what? I have taken dead people out of parking lot accidents. Doesn't take much.

Nobody's fault but their own. Looked to me like the inside of that Benz was not compromised. They would have lived.