Princess Diana Death: A Very Bizarre Break-In

Princess Diana Crash: Dead Paparazzi's Offices Burgled!
Almost exactly one month after Jean Paul Andanson's burnt body was discovered, on June 16, 2000 a rather strange break-in took place at the Paris offices of The Sipa Press Agency; which coincidentally happened to be the office where Andanson worked at the time of his death.

The break-in was remarkable for the fact its duration was a staggering 3 hours! (Yeah...yeah…I know, I evidently love that word staggering). This is how it went down:

On June 16, 2000 three masked and armed men shot the security guard at the Sipa Paris offices in the foot (at least they were considerate about the whole collateral damage issue) before storming the interior of the building. Sipa is a 24-hour Press Agency so you can bet that there were people at the office! Matter of fact, there were, but this didn't faze the armed invaders at all; they went right ahead and proceeded to conduct their robbery with hostages on hand.

What Did The Robbers Steal?

The assailants quickly located a very specific number of offices out of the multitude within the premises (the Sipa Paris office had more than 200 employees) and quickly gathered a number of items which included cameras, laptops, and hard drives from various desktop computers. The men were methodical and highly organized; evidently this was no spur of the moment burglary and definitely not amateur time!

In spite of the time spent collecting their loot and containing the hostages, the men were always composed and apparently unconcerned about any intervention from the authorities. In fact one witness (hostage) later remarked that "It was as though the robbers worked for the government…they were absolutely unconcerned that they would get caught or that the police might come."

A number of other hostages concluded that these were no ordinary crooks and indeed accounts of their conduct within the Sipa offices would tend to corroborate such observations:

1. The men were highly organized and methodical and only restricted their search and gathering activities to specific offices;

2. Despite the extensive duration required to gather what they had gone to get, the men never showed any trace of concern that they might be interrupted by the authorities (hmmm…could they have been French Secret Service?); and

3. The items they left with had a common thread…they were devices used for taking images (cameras) or devices that could be used to store digital images (laptops and hard drives).

What Andanson Possessed Could Have Unraveled The Carefully Weaved Tapestry Of The Plot!

The very obvious and only conclusion that one can draw from this event is that the robbers wanted to get their hands on any photos that Andanson may have had concerning the crash that killed Princess Diana.

Quite possibly the theft from the other offices was merely a ruse to muddy the waters and divert attention from the fact that Andanson's office was the real target or perhaps the perpetrators were just covering all their bases by removing any and all hard drives where Andanson could have stored such images (i.e., on a colleague's or close friend's computer as insurance).

Just to reiterate:

1) Forensic evidence put Andanson's white Fiat Uno at the scene of the Paris crash (it was identified beyond any doubt as the car that clipped the Mercedes in the tunnel before screeching away);

2) A few days before his death Andanson had started mouthing off how he was in possession of sensational never-before-seen footage of the Diana crash.

3) Andanson's white Fiat Uno was indeed the car seen by several witnesses chasing Princess Diana's limousine into the tunnel before the crash, then seen speeding away from the tunnel after a loud bang.

All the evidence tends to suggest that Andanson was a big liability to the authors of the plot for it appeared he was in possession of very very compromising photos that could unthread the carefully crafted tapestry of the plot!

Princess Diana: Paparazzi Identified As Owner Of Car That Rammed Mercedes!

Princess Diana: The Suspicious Movements Of White Fiat Uno On The Night Of The Crash
On May 5, 2000, a badly burned body with a bullet hole neatly drilled in to the head was discovered in some woods in Nantes not far from Paris, France. A series of month long DNA tests finally concluded beyond any doubt whatsoever that those charred remains belonged to Jean-Paul Andanson a member of the paparazzi who had been stalking Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed up and down the Mediterranean.

Who Was The Mysterious Jean-Paul Andanson?

So who was Jean Paul Andanson?

Described by some as the original godfather of modern day paparazzi, Andanson was a hard hitting, flamboyant self-styled photographer who specialized in celebrity shots. By the time of his death at age 54 his photography had made him into a millionaire.

For sure Andanson was not the only paparazzi hounding the ill-fated couple on August 31, 1997, but what makes Jean-Paul stand out was the fact that he owned a white Fiat Uno!

Was Andanson's White Fiat Uno The Car That Rammed The Mercedes In The Tunnel?

Okay let's clear up one little point here...just because he owned a white Fiat Uno doesn't mean that Andanson's Fiat Uno was indeed the car seen streaking from the tunnel shortly after the crash. After all there had to be at least thousands of other White Unos whirring their way around Paris. But...

Andanson's Fiat Uno hid a dirty little secret!

Not only was it repainted soon after the events of that fateful August 31st night in 1997 (hmmmm...could this be coincidence) forensic evidence determined beyond any doubt that the car in which Jean-Paul Andanson's charred remains were found was definitely the vehicle which clipped Princess Diana's Mercedes!

Investigators determined that this was the wanted car by matching paint-scratch traces found on the side view mirror of the Mercedes to paint traces found on the Fiat Uno! They achieved this by spectrographically analyzing the various absorption bands of the different paints!

Tomorrow: How could investigators commit such a major bloop in their handling of the initial investigation? In a bungling fiasco worthy of a Michael Moore docudrama how did the French Police come to the conclusion that Andanson was driven to suicide because of his wife's indiscretions? Why was Andanson really killed...was it his chutzpah that finally brought him to this grisly end of the road! How could this unbreakable trend of investigatory bungling have continued unabated?

Princess Diana Crash: The Realm Of Reasonable Doubt.

Princess Diana Crash: The Realm Of Reasonable

Historically Britain and France have over the ages squared off as enemies who from time to time, when the occasion so demanded, joined together in an uneasy alliance to pursue a common goal. Strong circumstantial evidence tends to suggest that such an occasion did indeed arise on August 31, 1997 when Princess Diana was killed.

Paris: Romantic City To Lovers; Convenient Killing Spot To Others

One of the more controversial aspects concerning the night Princess Diana died was the fact that it took just shy of two hours to drive her to a hospital that was merely 3.25 miles away? This issue is one amongst many smoking guns that conspiracy theorists are quick to whip out from their arsenal as evidence that what happened in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris that night was anything but an accident!

So assuming that the crash was indeed no ordinary accident but rather a high profile assassination made to look like one, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume whoever carried it out did thorough research beforehand. Such research would likely entail finding a location with restricted access points and also one that was fairly obscured from public view; a long enough tunnel would cover these two very necessary characteristics beautifully. Staging a late night crash also guaranteed that there were less unwanted eyeballs around to eyeball that which they were not supposed to see.

With just two entry/exit points, a tunnel affords easy control to incoming and outgoing traffic if ever the need were to arise. An accident in a tunnel also offers other advantages from an assassin's perspective. If the assassination is to be in the form of a road traffic accident (RTA) the chances of success are hugely magnified if a high velocity collision is staged in a confined area like a tunnel. A high speed accident in a place like the Paris Pont de l'Alma road tunnel would almost certainly result in the vehicle being buffeted from concrete wall to concrete wall over and over again like a pinball in an arcade game. Such a multiple-impact scenario greatly increases the chances of killing the target yet still allows room for the event to be termed a tragic accident!

An accident staged in Paris had other attractions too.

Other than the obvious that Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were already there and had made little secret of the fact that they intended to spend an enchanted evening in La Capitale Romance Du Monde (Paris), the other very attractive feature about France (from the plotters' perspective) was the rather unusual French ambulance evacuation policy.

In the wake of much finger pointing, recriminations, and accusations over the now infamous 2-hour ambulance ride, the French authorities (backed up by their British counterparts) went to great lengths to assure everyone that there was nothing suspicious about it at all. That in fact that was just the way it was done in France! Okay, granted that the ambulance policy in France may actually require that accident victims be stabilized at the scene, you can bet that the people behind the plot were well aware of that fact too. It is quite probable that whilst brainstorming various scenarios on how, where and when to execute the assassination, someone in the conspiracy stumbled across that unusual French policy and immediately saw its value as a tool for deflecting suspicion from a situation that would otherwise scream nothing but!

Blaming The Usual Suspects

In the this vein one can see why such an "accident" could not have been pulled off in England; The ambulance evacuation policy in the United Kingdom (Britain) like most other countries is radically different from that in France; namely that it requires a seriously injured victim to be rushed to hospital as expeditiously as possible where far better care may be administered. Besides, staging the crash in France gave the plot originators another very convenient patsy; albeit a complicit one!

Giving a distraught and hysterical British public someone to blame (who better than those dastardly French) not only took care of a very necessary emotional outlet, it also minimized the possibility of an immediate under-the-microscope investigation that would certainly have ensued had Princess Diana been killed in England. Having the French handle the investigation on French soil conveniently allowed any accusations of ineptness and bungling to rest squarely on the shoulders of the French.

Such a course of action could only work however as long as the necessary French security agencies were privy to the plot. It is unimaginable to believe that the French authorities would ever agree to shoulder the blame for an event of such magnitude unless various security agencies of theirs were complicit to the plot to some degree or other. If there had been no French involvement you can bet that the French secret service (DGSE) would have been the first to point fingers at the British secret service (MI6). In fact without the French connection it is highly improbably the entire event could have been pulled off at all.

As it was, the manner in which the plot was contrived ensured that the British public at least had the usual (dastardly) suspects to voice their anger against but most importantly it afforded the plotters multiple opportunities to confine their achievement firmly in the realm of reasonable doubt!


Tomorrow: Whatever happened to the mysterious white Fiat Uno that several witnesses claim to have seen speeding away from the accident in the tunnel! Were paparazzi really involved in any way in the plot to kill Princess Diana? What connection did the charred remains of a body found in some woods near Paris have to do with the accident that claimed Henri Paul's, Dodi Fayed's and Princess Diana's lives?