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French spy admitted: 'We could have saved Diana' Daily
Mail The French police could have saved Diana, Princess of Wales before her crash, the inquest heard today. The claim was made within hours of her death by a mystery security officer believed to be the head of the French equivalent of Britain's diplomatic protection group. He blamed the British Embassy in Paris for failing to tip off the French authorities that the Princess was in the French capital so they could then mount a surveillance and security operation.
Keith Moss, the then British Consul General at the Paris Embassy, told the High Court that he was approached by the unnamed officer at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital on the night Diana died in August 1997. Mr Moss did not know who the officer was and did not include the meeting in his official report of the night's events. "He asked me whether we knew that the Princess had been in France and if we had, why had his service not been called in as they would have conducted discreet surveillance or security coverage during her visit," Mr Moss told the inquest. "I replied that as far as I was concerned everybody in the embassy were totally unaware of her visit to France and the fact she was visiting Paris." Cross-examined by Michael Mansfield QC, representing Mohamed Al-Fayed, whose son Dodi also died in the crash, Mr Moss said the officer was not making a complaint but was "passing an observation". Mr Mansfield asked if the French police "had known and if they had managed to mount surveillance, however discreet, this incident would possibly not have happened. Did he say that?" Mr Moss replied: "That was the inference to what he was saying." Mr Mansfield added that it may have "been significant to discover who that man was".
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