Prince Harry slams paparazzi for dying Diana pictures

The Prince says he finds it hard to come to terms with the behaviour of paparazzi who took pictures as his mother lay injured.

PRINCE Harry has criticised the paparazzi for taking pictures of his mother dying in a car instead of trying to help her following the crash in Paris 20 years ago.
To mark the 20th anniversary of her death, Prince Harry and his brother Prince William have spoken more openly than ever before about the events surrounding the car crash.
In a new BBC documentary, called Diana, 7 Days, Harry describes his feelings about the accident scene for the first time.
He says: “I think one of the hardest things to come to terms with is the fact that the people that chased her through into the tunnel were the same people that were taking photographs of her, while she was still dying on the back seat of the car.”
He adds: “William and I know that, we’ve been told that numerous times by people that know that was the case.
“She’d had a… quite a severe head injury, but she was very much still alive on the back seat, and those people that… that caused the accident, instead of helping, were taking photographs of her dying on the back seat. And then those photographs made… made their way back to news desks in this country.”
In the programme due to be shown on BBC1 at 19:30 hours on Sunday, the two Princes also reflect on the support they received while they were in Scotland with Prince Charles and the Queen after their mother’s death.
Prince Harry pays tribute to his father for his support at the time, saying: “One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.
“How you deal with that I don’t know but, you know, he was there for us.
“He was the one, out of two, left and he tried to do his best and to make sure we were protected and looked after. But, you know, he was going through the same grieving process as well.”
The Queen was criticised for not returning from Balmoral to London quickly enough to acknowledge the national outpouring of grief.
But Prince William appears to defend her decision saying: “At the time, you know, my grandmother wanted to protect her two grandsons and my father as well.
“Our grandmother deliberately removed the newspapers and things like that, so there was nothing in the house at all, so we didn’t know what was going on.
“We had the privacy to mourn and kind of collect our thoughts and to try and just have that space away from everybody.”
At the time of Diana’s death, as the world looked for someone to blame, the behaviour of the paparazzi on that night was severely criticised.
Photographers had pursued Diana and Dodi al Fayed as they left the Ritz hotel in Paris.
An inquest held in 2007 and 2008 concluded that they were unlawfully killed due to the “gross negligence” of driver Henri Paul, who had been drinking, and the paparazzi who were following the car.
In a Sky documentary, Jack and Robin Firestone, an American couple who were on holiday in Paris with their 12-year old son, talk about seeing the group of photographers after the taxi they were in ended up in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel.
In the programme Robin recalls seeing the paparazzi surrounding the car.
She says: “Before we got to the point where we were right next to the pillars, we were going so slowly and I noticed several different people with cameras.
“There are red lights, there are blue lights, there are white lights from these photographers. The best way to explain it was a splash of light; blinding, blinding lights, and you hear the clicks.”
She also describes her shock that no one was helping, saying: “I see a woman’s face. Her head was turned. She had blonde hair.
“And I said: ‘Oh my god there’s a woman in the car and it looks like she’s got to be dead. What are they doing? Why aren’t they helping? Why are they taking pictures?”
― skynews.com