London, Jul
22 (PTI) A French court is said to have reopened Princess Diana''s death probe
by seeking to question two former top British police officials over allegations
that they withheld "crucial evidence" about the Paris car crash which
killed her in 1997, a media report said.
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Princess
Diana predicted that she would be killed
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French
Judge Gerard Caddeo wants to interrogate former Scotland Yard chief Lord Condon
and ex-Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Police Sir David Veness why they
had failed to disclose the existence of a note in which the late Princess of
Wales predicted her assassination, the ''Daily Express'' said.
Under
French law, "removing or concealing" evidence, which could
"facilitate the discovery of a crime", is punishable by three to five
years in jail, it said.
In fact,
the note, taken by Diana''s lawyer Lord Mishcon, was handed to the officers a
few months after the 1997 Paris tunnel crash which also claimed the lives of
her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed.
The
lawyer''s document records the line: "Efforts would be made if not to get
rid of her (be it by some accident in her car, such as a pre-prepared brake
failure or whatever)... at least to see that she was so injured or damaged as
to be declared unbalanced."
But it was
more than three years later before it emerged that UK officers had locked the
note in Lord Condon''s safe at Scotland Yard. When Lord Condon stood down as
the Met Police chief, his successor too kept its existence a secret.
A source
close to Paris probe said: "Everyone assumed that with the end of the
British inquest, the investigation into Diana and Dodi''s deaths was closed.
But this has blown it wide open again. Judge Caddeo is determined to get to
bottom of what happened with the Mishcon note."
A Scotland
Yard spokesman said: "We are not prepared to comment." PTI MOT
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