Twenty-five years since Princess Diana died in a high-speed car crash in Paris, the French doctor who treated her at the scene is still marked by what happened. He recounted his memories of that night in an interview with AP.
He ran to his car to call emergency services and grab a respiratory bag.
“I know it’s surprising, but I didn’t recognize Princess Diana,” he said. “I was in the car on the rear seat giving assistance. I realized she was very beautiful, but my attention was so focused on what I had to do to save her life, I didn’t have time to think, who was this woman.” Mailliez said he had “no reproach” toward the photographers’ actions after the crash. “They didn’t hamper me having access to the victims. ... I didn’t ask them for help, but they didn’t interfere with my job.”
The anniversary is stirring up those memories again, but they also come back “each time I drive through the Alma Tunnel,” he said.As Mailliez spoke, standing atop the tunnel, cars rushed in and out past the pillar where she crashed, now bearing a stencil drawing of Diana’s face.
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