From: steuart@btinternet.com   
      
   "Out of the 17 surveillance cameras stationed along  the route the Mercedes   
   took, not a single one worked that night!   
   The Al  Fayed family did some research, and found that there were only two   
   instances up to that night when a single camera had failed to  work  during   
   an accident since the system had been installed.  And yet   
   all 17  failed to function!"   
    The Assassination of Diana, Princess of Wales, Part 2   
     Kevin Warren, ACPD, Tues 30 Sep 1997   
      
    "that is one of the most suspicious things of all time because   
   it was the only time in the whole history of the traffic system in Paris,   
   that all 28 video traffic controls were not working, from the time they left   
   the Ritz,  which is the last thing we got, there were three in the tunnel   
   itself that were not working, they were not functioning, they had not   
   functioned for  about 20 minutes before they left the Ritz"   
      
   Simon Regan,'For the Love Of..' first broadcast on UK Channel 4   
   TV March 1998. Repeated May 1999.   
      
   This question must have been debated inside out.  The conspiracy   
   thinkers  were convinced that the lack of images were prima facie evidence   
   of  skullduggery of the worst kind.  Well, Operation Paget has   
   resolved this  matter once and for all.  As a result of its meticulous and   
   forensic  investigation, we now know that the number of traffic camera's   
   on the route that HP took that night was precisely two and they were working   
   perfectly.   
      
   According to Paget Investigation,   
   "In addition to the three cameras on the place Vendôme frontage the Ritz   
   hotel also has two cameras pointing towards the rear exit by 38 rue Cambon.   
      
   By 42 rue Cambon a camera is trained only on the entrance to that building.   
      
   Numbers 35, 37, 39 and 41 rue Cambon, which house companies, hotel and   
   restaurant, are fitted with cameras trained only on the fronts of the   
   buildings.   
      
   The Hôtel de la Marine in the place de la Concorde has three cameras facing   
   towards the building.   
      
   A single camera is fixed to a lamp-post by the port de la Concorde, but it   
   is pointing towards the embankment on the right bank, towards the pont   
   Solférino.   
      
   There is no video surveillance of the roads along the voie Georges Pompidou   
   and cours Albert 1er.   
      
   Only the France 3 offices at 28 cours Albert 1er have a camera, pointing   
   straight at the entrance to the building.   
      
   In the place de l'Alma there is a camera attached to the top of the   
   lamp-post in the middle of the roundabout, pointing towards the voie Georges   
   Pompidou going towards Concorde.   
      
   After the Alma tunnel, there is no video surveillance system on the express   
   lane on the right bank embankment, the avenue de New York.   
      
   The only cameras visible are those looking over the roofs of the Palais de   
   Tokyo and they are only trained on the building itself.   
      
   On the place de Varsovie a camera attached to a lamp-post is pointed towards   
   the avenue de New York in the direction of the place de l'Alma.."   
      
   Lieutanant Gigou concluded,   
      
   "The surveillance cameras on the private and public buildings along the   
   route are only trained on the fronts of the buildings they protect."   
      
   Gigou tabulated aprox 16 camera's, 14 of which did not belong to the Paris   
   authorities and were privately owned.  These cameras were observing the   
   buildings they were set up to protect.  No reasonable person would expect   
   images of the Express way or the Mercedes.   
      
   Of the two traffic cameras, the one situated at the port de la Concorde was   
   pointing in the wrong direction, toward Pont Solferino, the second was   
   situated above the underpass in the Place de Alma.  It was controled by the   
   Paris Urban Traffic Unit, which closed down at 11.00pm, had no night staff   
   and took no recordings.  The images from this camera, could be   
   observed in  real time, by officers at the Police Headquarters Information   
   and Command  Centre, but they were unable to maninpulate the camera.  Paget   
   notes  further,   
      
   "There would be no reason for those in the overnight control room in Paris   
   to be viewing that camera in particular, before the crash."   
      
   The conspiracy designs surrounding Di's death, have been nourished in part,   
   by the lack of details from the French investigation.  This  secrecy has   
   endured as a result of Frances confidentiality laws.  One of the great   
   accomplishments of Paget, has been the opening of the French files to public   
   scrutiny and bringing important details to light.  There is no   
   better  example of this than the questions surrounding the traffic camera's,   
   which I  believe have now been resolved.   
      
   Geoff.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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