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Diana Jury Visits Paris Tunnel

Inquest panel to re-create ex-princess's final ride

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 8, 2007 2:05 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Standing silently in the spot where a car crash claimed three lives, the jury in the Princess Diana inquest today began retracing her last movements in Paris. This time the paparazzi were absent as police blocked off traffic to the Pont de l'Alma underpass and jurors walked to the 13th pillar. They planned to return at dark to get a better feel, Reuters reports.

The jurors began their 2-day journey to France with a visit to the service entrance of the Ritz Hotel, which Diana and Dodi al-Fayed used in a futile attempt to elude photographers. The 11-member group, which visited the tunnel accompanied by the coroner, court officials, and press, is also slated to visit the hospital where Diana died.

Members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed entered the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. The jurors, who began hearing evidence on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi...
Members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed entered the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. The jurors,...   (Associated Press)
Police services prepare to take away the damaged car in the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris in which Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed were traveling in this Sunday, Aug. 31, 1997 file photo. The British inquest into the death of Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed opened...
Police services prepare to take away the damaged car in the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris in which Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed were traveling in this Sunday, Aug. 31, 1997 file photo. The British...   (Associated Press)
Members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Monday Oct. 8, 2007, where the Mercedes the couple were travelling in crashed in 1997. The jurors, who began hearing...
Members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Monday Oct. 8, 2007, where the...   (Associated Press)
Members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Monday Oct. 8, 2007, where the Mercedes the couple were travelling in crashed in 1997. The jurors, who began hearing...
Members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Monday Oct. 8, 2007, where the...   (Associated Press)
Members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Monday Oct. 8, 2007, where the Mercedes the couple were travelling in crashed in 1997. The jurors, who began hearing...
Members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Monday Oct. 8, 2007, where the...   (Associated Press)
A french police officer watchesd, as members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Monday Oct. 8, 2007, where the Mercedes the couple were travelling in crashed in...
A french police officer watchesd, as members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris...   (Associated Press)
Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker, who is presiding over the inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed joins the jury as they enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Monday Oct. 8, 2007, where the Mercedes the couple were traveling in crashed in...
Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker, who is presiding over the inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed joins the jury as they enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Monday...   (Associated Press)
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