Mohammed Al Fayed Dies Age 94

[naomi24]

..... 26 years almost to the day after his son, Dodi, was killed alongside Princess Diana.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66690623

Rest in peace, Mr Fayed.

[youngmafbog]

He did have a long and fruitful life. RIP.

[ladybirder]

A very generous man. R.I.P.

[Peter Pedant]

Imagine him having Di as a daughter in law !
Better men have buckled under such a challenge.

He believed that Di and Dodi were killed to prevent a marriage ( er between them) by MI5 in cahoots with The Duke of Edinburgh

there are a billion people on this earth who agree with him ( all Muslims)

The fact that there is no evidence for this PROVES the proposition - if there were any evidence then it cdnt have been MI5 ( and the Dook)

[lankeela]

Not just Muslims! Tell me the thought hasn't crossed your minds.

[Peter Pedant]

no I am persuaded by the 'there is no evidence ' bit

[JimF]

"Whenever he turned up at Craven Cottage, the away fans would inevitably sing; ♫ You'll never get a passport! ♫

[jno]

there's no evidence that anyone tapped Charles's phone calls to Camilla, either, and publicised the one about tampons. And yet someone did. So I can understand people's suspicions about MI5.

[Peter Pedant]

At that time, the geeks told me
The speak and hear lines wree carried on two difft frequencies, so even if a punter was lucky and came across one channel

he would have to have a second ( complete) set to get the other ( together)

v technica and v expensive

[Peter Pedant]

hold it
the evidence that the phones were hacked is.....
the leaked phone calls

whereas someone dead in a car does NOT show MI5 had a hand in it

[Barsel]

I didn't know these conspiracy theories were still around.
Diana and Dodi died because they got into a car with a drunk/drugged driver and they weren't wearing seat belts.

[JimF]

You wouldn't say that Henri Paul, by the corroboration of many of his circle of friends, was clean at the time of the accident?

The point about not wearing seatbelts is, of course, beyond doubt.

[Barsel]

Jim, as with a lot of things, I only know what I read.
I thought I remembered the toxicity report was favourable although I think they did find something strange, can't remember now what it was, but as we know the bodyguard was wearing a seat belt and he survived, There's is also the possibility that D & D might have survived too.

[JimF]

"There's is also the possibility that D & D might have survived too."

Especially if the paparazzi who drove them off the road had actually tried to help them instead of just taking pictures.

[Spungle]

Well at least no-one can blame Prince Philip for this.

[1ozzy]

So Mohammed Al Fayed died?

Millions of people die every day.

So what is so special about him Naomi?

[DTCwordfan]

Fayed paid a visit to the Knightsbridge shops,
On the arrival his wits died;
Money was exercised and he was made,
His 'Arrods business stayed in the eyes,
The money made him rich and even richer.
No game was in the air, the corner shop,
The Royal Warrants duly removed
'The Shop', and even more shops in Duty Free.
This was the Grocer of Knightsbridge bustling with goods,
Food and Perfume employed him to encounter it,
The wit of the Grocer - it all came to ruins,
The cause of dying was no living,
Accusations about him grooming,
Corruption and sorcery abounding
And this was the Grocer of Knightsbridge.

[Zacs-Master]

Have you done any sketching lately, DT? Much better than your poetry ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

Especially if the paparazzi who drove them off the road had actually tried to help them instead of just taking pictures.

noop - ou non ! ( haw haw haw)

this was tried at the time ( quoi?)

La non-assistance à personne en danger est un délit sanctionné par le code pénal (article 223-6 alinéa 2). Lorsqu'une personne peut secourir quelqu'un qui court un risque pour sa vie et qu'elle n'intervient pas, elle peut être poursuivie devant un tribunal.

my translation: sozza Naomi: Failure to provide help to a person needing it is made a crimminal offence by Penal Code 223-6. When a person who can help and doesnt, they can be prosecuted in the relevant tribunal

AND SO

the hacks were arrested ( roland rat wrote extensively on the oblig rectal search ( oop-la!) at the time) and charged

I gorra copy of the case hearing Le Monde ( that is French for 'The World', non francophones) - and they were all acquitted ( non-coupable - means acquitted as well as not-charged AND non-indicted) on the grounds that as soon as SAMU ( Service da-da medicale d'urgence, c'est a dire) arrived they were relieved of any duty

Photos were of SAMU attending innit?

God sozza readers to put so much French in an accident that occurred and was reported in er French but comme il disent la: c;est la vie !

oops short answer to FredF - the hacks were prosecuted for non assistance but were acquitted on the grounds SAMU was there anyway