In the early hours on the 31st of August 1997, in the midst of a paparazzi car chase, a speeding Mercedes-Benz collided with the 13th pillar of the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in the French capital of Paris. The collision immediately took the lives of Dodi Fayed and the driver, Henri Paul. Princess Diana who sat in the rear passenger seat, suffered from severe injuries which she later succumbed to and passed away. The royal bodyguard of the princess, Trevor Rees-Jones, was the sole survivor of the accident, however having withstood serious injuries. It was determined by a series of investigations that the crash was caused primarily due to the drunken state of the driver who was speeding at levels that greatly exceeded the legal limit. It was concluded
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On May 1999, former M16 agent, Richard Tomlinson, claimed that M16 was a part of this alleged conspiracy and suggested that the intelligence agency had documentation surrounding this. He further uphold his claims, he alleged that Diana’s death was similar to M16 plans that he had observed in 1992 which were intended for the assassination of then President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević, and involved the use of a strobe light to blind the driver of the car to cause an accident. In order to review Tomlinson’s claims, Operation Paget officers were given access to the offices of M16, as well as M15, where they discovered evidence that proved his claims were falsified. The mentioned plans concerning a scheme of assassinating Milošević, was actually plans in assassinating another Serbian figure and did not involve a car crash caused by a strobe light. In addition, drafts written in 1996 by Tomlinson for his book about his job as an M16 agent were discovered and was revealed to not have included any details about a staged car crash, but a later draft from late 1997, after the incident, had included this. It was concluded that this was deliberately written as evidence for the conspiracy theory. Tomlinson’s accusations were based off of evidence that he had fabricated, demonstrating the common characteristics of a conspiracy theorist where they insist they are always right, using any evidence they can lay hands in, even if it is full of
On May 1999, former M16 agent, Richard Tomlinson, claimed that M16 was a part of this alleged conspiracy and suggested that the intelligence agency had documentation surrounding this. He further uphold his claims, he alleged that Diana’s death was similar to M16 plans that he had observed in 1992 which were intended for the assassination of then President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević, and involved the use of a strobe light to blind the driver of the car to cause an accident. In order to review Tomlinson’s claims, Operation Paget officers were given access to the offices of M16, as well as M15, where they discovered evidence that proved his claims were falsified. The mentioned plans concerning a scheme of assassinating Milošević, was actually plans in assassinating another Serbian figure and did not involve a car crash caused by a strobe light. In addition, drafts written in 1996 by Tomlinson for his book about his job as an M16 agent were discovered and was revealed to not have included any details about a staged car crash, but a later draft from late 1997, after the incident, had included this. It was concluded that this was deliberately written as evidence for the conspiracy theory. Tomlinson’s accusations were based off of evidence that he had fabricated, demonstrating the common characteristics of a conspiracy theorist where they insist they are always right, using any evidence they can lay hands in, even if it is full of