Those are the words Princess Diana repeated as she lay in the smoking wreckage of a car, according to one of the first witnesses to reach the site of a crash that killed her ten years ago.
Damian Dalby told an inquest into Diana's death Thursday ( Oct. 25, 2007) that he and his brother rushed over to the wreckage of the princess' Mercedes after it crashed in the Pont d'Alma tunnel on August 31, 1997. His testimony contradicted earlier suggestions that she was never conscious enough to speak after the crash
Dalby, who was a volunteer French firefighter at the time, told the inquest by videolink from Paristhat the car was surrounded by photographers, but did not interfere with rescue efforts. Dalby said police soon arrived and moved the photographers away.
"They continued taking photographs, it was then I spoke to them telling them to stop," Dalby's brother, Sebastien Pennequin, said in a statement. "'The people must know that Princess Diana is alive,' one of them said."
Earlier Thursday, a French man who claims Diana died in a trap set by photographers testified there was an organized to stop the car carrying Diana and Fayed in the tunnel so paparazzi could take photos and get interviews. And that Henri Paul driver Henri Paul was a paid informant of the French secret service, but Jacques Morel said he was not in a position to produce supporting "secret and confidential documents" for the inquest.
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