NEW WITNESS EVIDENCE PROVES THAT PAPARAZZO JAMES ANDANSON WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD!
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DIANA INQUEST
NEW WITNESS EVIDENCE PROVES THAT PAPARAZZO
JAMES ANDANSON WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD!
French Fireman Christophe Pelat ..... James Andanson, alleged to have burned
himself to death
In the final few days of Diana and Dodi's lives, one of the most aggressive
photographers hunting them was James Andanson. Unlike the other snappers he
was not content simply to follow them around, he wanted the best shots money
could buy. He hired a helicopter and hovered above the yacht Jonikal to get
a better view. Diana was particularly distressed by this latest technique of
press intrusion into her soon to be ended life.
In the aftermath of the crash, Mohamed Al Fayed brought in his security
chief John McNamara to head a private investigation, at the behest of the
Harrod's chief. Using unique sources and excellent contacts, it did not take
McNamara long to discover that Andanson owned a white Fiat Uno and that he
usually kept it on his farm in Lignières in Central France.
McNamara states that when he found this shabby white Fiat Uno, his
sharp-witted investigators noted the fact that the car had been fitted with
a new rear tail, which would be entirely logical if the taillight had been
seriously damaged in an accident. Andanson sold the white Fiat Uno a month
after the crash. McNamara's agent found the car in a garage but was
immediately arrested for interfering with the police 'investigation'. The
police limited the hunt for the Fiat Uno to the outskirts of Paris and ruled
out that it could be found anywhere else in France.
French police were alerted by McNamara and his team of the existence of the
white Fiat Uno and that it was owned by a man who had been following Diana.
Rees-Jones, with what remaining memory he claims to have, recalls seeing a
white Fiat Uno on the rue Cambon as they pulled off on the fateful journey.
Andanson's recently sold white Fiat Uno had been re-sprayed and there was no
documentation to confirm the date of the re-spray.
One might have thought the Paris police would be grateful for the
information gleaned from McNamara's team of investigators. On the contrary,
the former Scotland Yard detective was assured that if he 'interfered' with
the 'investigation' again, he would be charged with a criminal offence.
Quite apart from the fact that the French were not having a British
detective to be seen upstaging them, it was clear that Andanson was a
non-issue, in much the same way that it was decided by senior officials in
the Alma Tunnel to stick to the 'accident' theory within an hour of the
crash.
James Andanson, who Richard Tomlinson states was on the books of MI6 as a
paid freelancer, was also something of a mystery in the same genre as Henri
Paul. Andanson's real name was Jean Paul Gonin but he took the name of
Andanson when he married his wife Elizabeth. He flew a Union Jack on his
farmhouse, saying he "loved" Britain and the British national flag. This is
an odd aberration for a Frenchman, given the traditional 'rivalry', to put
it mildly, between France and Britain.
Andanson was one of the richest photographers in the world. But he was hated
by many people, who disliked his bullying attitude and aggressive manner.
Some of his 'targets' have described him as a 'thug with a camera', which
indeed he used as a weapon to carve out a very comfortable living. Filmed as
part of a documentary, Andanson was seen to cherish his white Fiat Uno,
which was old and shabby, just as witnesses at the Alma Tunnel confirmed and
were ignored by both French and British authorities, who had for once
forgotten their ancient 'rivalry'. In the documentary Andanson explains that
his faithful car had taken him over a colossal distance of 325,000
kilometres.
In the Riviera resort of St jean Cap Ferrat, he 'casually' bumped into the
owner of Fiat, the industrialist Giovanni Agnelli. The following day,
Agnelli recognised Andanson in the town and struck up a short conversation.
Andanson, desperate to impress, as usual, explained how he loved his Fiat
and how it had been such a reliable vehicle. Agnelli, eager to play the
magnanimous billionaire, promised he would give Andanson a brand new Fiat
Uno when his shabby old car had done 500,000 kilometres.
Andanson, could not resist the temptation to brag about Agnelli's generous
offer. And yet, so proud of the reliable white Fiat Uno, for which he was
promised a brand new replacement on completing the requisite 500,000
kilometres, just a month after the crash at the Alma Tunnel, he sold his
'pride and joy'. As already explained, the car was refurbished with new rear
tail light and re-sprayed. All the common signs of covering up 'accidental'
damage. But the French police, incorrigibly bent on the accident theory,
were not interested in Andanson and his white Fiat Uno..
One of Andanson's colleagues at the SIPA photo agency in Paris, confirmed
that Andanson had often boasted of working for French and British
Intelligence services. This would fit in with Andanson's boastful, arrogant
nature, a man who believed he was untouchable. He would also boast to
friends and neighbours that he was at the Alma Tunnel on the night of the
crash and that police were not "clever enough to catch me."
The arrogant braggart boasted to friends and neighbours that he even
photographed and taped the last moments of Diana in the tunnel. The French
Special Branch believe that Andanson's role for the intelligence services
was to harass, intimidate, watch and sometimes eliminate a personality. The
French Special Branch were investigating Andanson at the time of his death
on the grounds that he was suspected to have played a leading role in the
'suicide' of former French Prime Minister, Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy in 1993.
French Special Branch believe Bérégovoy did not kill himself and was instead
murdered.
Bérégovoy, apparently, had committed suicide by shooting himself 'twice' in
the head; the second bullet was attributed to a nervous reflex, said French
police, again playing the guessing game, and his death was ruled a 'suicide'.
Yet again, the Bérégovoy case is one of an 'extraordinary' personality
defying the mechanics of human physiology by shooting himself twice in the
head, the first bullet not being enough to kill him. The exit wound in his
head was too small for that associated with a .357 Magnum, the alleged
'suicide' weapon. He left no note or letter explaining why he was going to
kill himself.
French Special Branch state that there are witness statements to put
Andanson in Nevers, central France, on the day Bérégovoy killed himself a
couple of miles away. Andanson's widow Elisabeth also confirms that he was
in Nevers on the day Bérégovoy was found dead. Forensic evidence shows that
Bérégovoy was shot from long distance and which contradicts the police
report that he shot himself twice in the head. French Special Branch also
reveal that Andanson was present on the day that Diana and Dodi died and he
was present on the days of the deaths of Lolo Ferrari, porn star, Dalida,
singer, Bernard Buffet, the painter and the pop star Claude François, who
sang the French version of 'if I had a hammer'.
Andanson certainly had an uncanny habit of approaching people who died
suddenly thereafter and he was always in the immediate vicinity on the same
day. The French Special Branch say that he had an 'intuition' that certain
people were going to die and he just happened to be nearby. Of course, no
one is suggesting that Andanson was clairvoyant but rather that he had
inside-knowledge that someone was about to die and was probably more
accurate than a clairvoyant.
And rumours abound that Andanson took the last picture of the Mercedes S280
from his white Fiat Uno and that final burst from his powerful flashbulb
blinded Henri Paul, causing him to crash. A multiple burst from a flashbulb
of the type used by professional photographers can cause epileptic fit and
is just as strong as an Anti-Personnel Device flashgun. The crash could
indeed have been accident, caused by the multiple burst from Andanson's
flashbulb but if Andanson did not intend to off-road the Mercedes, why
swerve into its path?
And there is also the issue of who was driving the white Fiat Uno?
Certainly, Andanson could not have driven the car and fired his camera at
the same time. Witnesses say that two people were in the white Fiat Uno and
one looked like he was hiding his head under a tartan blanket as the car
left the Alma Tunnel.
Former senior detective John McNamara explains the subject in this way: "You
have a Mercedes that's done a 180 degree turn, having crashed into the
thirteenth pillar and yet the Fiat Uno survives everything, which suggests
to me that that was a very professional driver. I can well believe, as a
detective with 24 years experience, why Mr Al Fayed believes that his son
Dodi and Princess Diana were murdered."
French Special Branch also discovered from Andanson's diary, that he spent
part of the day of 23 August on the yacht Jonikal at the same time as Diana
and Dodi. Commentators have spoken of the abnormality of him being on the
yacht but Commander Mules suggests that Andanson had made a deal with Diana
to photograph her in a high-cut swimsuit. It should be noted that Andanson
once made £100,000 for a single photograph of Prince Charles with a
suspected 'mistress', presumed to be his nanny Tiggy.
And two weeks after the crash, the Criminal Brigade finally admitted that
red-and-white optical debris found in the tunnel entrance in the right-hand
lane came from the rear light of a Fiat Uno built in Italy between May 1983
and September 1989. This matched the paint deposits on the front right wing
mirror and body panels of a white Fiat Uno made in Italy between 1983 and
1989. Andanson's white fiat Uno was made during the same period.
But the Criminal Brigade limited the search for the white Fiat Uno to two
departments (districts) of Paris, near to the Alma Tunnel and the remainder
of France was ruled out of the investigation. When John McNamara's team of
detectives found Andanson's white Fiat Uno, they were arrested and McNamara
was warned that he would be charged with a criminal offence if he interfered
again with the 'investigation'. McNamara's team clearly had done a
professional job and were not interested in limiting their search area to a
couple of Paris suburbs. But French police did not want to take the matter
any further and Andanson knew only too well that the police would not be
able to touch him.
In effect, McNamara and his team of professional investigators were warned
off because they were doing a better job than the French Criminal Brigade or
more likely that they had got too close to the truth by finding Andanson's
white Fiat Uno. But the ever so mercurial Andanson was living on borrowed
time. He bragged often to friends and neighbours, who were used to his
boasts, that he was at the Alma Tunnel on the night of the crash. He also
bragged to work colleagues that he was in the employ of French and British
Intelligence - he was a "loose cannon". But before he was put out of action
permanently, he had much wriggling to do.
Andanson may have denied to the police that he was in Paris on 30/31 August,
chasing Diana but he boasted to a neighbour of having not only been in
Paris, but that he was present when Diana was killed and that he filmed and
taped the incident and that could only have been from inside his white Fiat
Uno, which was not driven by him. Confidential police forensic reports
hidden in Judge Stephan's report, put Andanson at the Alma Tunnel but the
matter went no further and Lord Stevens has also ignored this fact.
Even though his son, James said he thought his father was grape harvesting
that particular morning in Bordeaux. Apparently, he had left home at
04.00hrs to travel to Bordeaux, over three hours after the crash and more
than enough time to get back home from Paris, a couple of hours' drive away,
before setting off to pick grapes and cement a cover story for future
reference.
In the Paget Report, John Stevens wrote: 'The initial contact between the
French police and James Andanson was by telephone on 11 February 1998.
Lieutenant Eric Gigou of the Brigade Criminelle tried to arrange an
appointment to interview him. This was as a result of the police becoming
aware of his ownership of a white Fiat Uno. The exchange was somewhat terse.
Lieutenant Gigou reported that James Andanson said 'He does not have the
time to waste with the police' and that he 'Refuses to receive policemen in
his manor and that he has no time to give.' During this telephone call
Lieutenant Gigou recorded '.on the day of the accident he was in
Saint-Tropez and that he therefore had nothing to do with the case' (French
Dossier D4546-D4547).'
A very simple text book case for the French police. Andanson says he was not
there [Alma Tunnel] and that is it, no further investigation into his
implausible claim. Criminals across the world must be hoping for the same
treatment. 'I was not there, I was somewhere else, sir, when that person was
killed,' would seem to be the ideal alibi to prevent a thorough
investigation. In reality the reverse is always true.
Of course, everyone knows that in criminal cases, alibis are thoroughly
tested and investigated. But the French and British authorities decided from
the outset that the fatal crash was an accident and there would be no
criminal investigation. In the Paget Report, Stevens adopts the same
dismissive stance and has only skimmed the surface of available witness
testimony, which was his purpose from the outset. The faithful Establishment
plod, had not intention of upsetting the apple cart from which he draws his
own succour.
In essence, the paint scratches found on the Mercedes came from a white Fiat
Uno but Judge Stephan ruled that the Uno played only a "passive" part in the
crash. The reality is that the Mercedes was thrown off course by the Uno
swerving into its path and with the combination of a series of near-blinding
flashes of white light, Henri Paul slammed into the thirteenth pillar. But
it all became academic in 2000, when Andanson was found dead in his BMW, 400
miles away from his home in Nant, central France, on the site of a French
army training area. Andanson's skeleton was, in fact, found by French
soldiers, who had seen smoke rising on the horizon and gone to investigate
the burned out wreck in the woodland. Andanson was so badly burned that he
could only be identified by DNA tests. And the location in itself was
something of a mystery.
Research shows that when people know they are dying, they find a primitive
urge to return to the place of their birth or their favourite home. But
Andanson, supposedly, threw human nature aside, drove 400 miles away from
home, drove a further two miles along a potholed lane, scraped another mile
along cow pastures, into dense forest, found a clearing few local people
knew existed, which begs the question how he knew it existed, and set in
motion the process of killing himself.
Andanson, supposedly, doused himself with over 20 litres of petrol, enough
to drown him, fixed his seatbelt, locked the doors of his BMW from the
outside, crossed his arms, and torched the car from the inside. When his
skeleton was found, his arms, what remained of them, were still crossed. One
has to imagine the sheer agony and terror of burning to death. He would have
thrashed around like a madman in the final minute or so of his life but he
was found, as if sitting comfortably, which is completely unbelievable.
Police believed he had killed himself, but a French fireman, Christophe
Pelat, who attended the burning wreck of the car, says he appeared to have a
bullet hole in his skull. Pelat has since declined to comment on whether he
has been interviewed by Stevens' detectives but has agreed to testify the
Inquest in October 2007. Along with everything else, the police immediately
decided that Andanson had committed suicide in the most implausibly horrific
circumstances. We have never come across a case of anyone committing suicide
by burning to death in car. Why not just use pills or a gun?
Conveniently, of course, the inferno destroyed all valuable forensic
evidence in the car and there was little left of Andanson's skeleton and he
left no suicide note. Almost reminds one of the 'suicide' of Dr David Kelly
during the prelude to the illegal Iraq war. But, right on cue, came Sir John
Stevens, during the press release of the Paget Report, to tell us that he
had once attended an almost identical 'suicide' and that we should not think
it strange that Andanson killed himself in this manner. It should also be
noted that Stevens did not mention the name of the victim or the incident,
time, date etc. so the press could investigate the matter and we must
therefore assume his tiresome little tale was produced simply for effect. "A
lie becomes a truth and then becomes a lie again," George Orwell
Andanson's family and particularly his widow did not accept the 'suicide'
fantasy proposed by French Police and insisted a criminal investigation
should be conducted but the police, true to form, said that the possibility
that Andanson was murdered was "fantasy". And part of the "fantasy" is that
no one has ever found the keys to his locked car. In fact, the car doors
were locked from the outside. Was Houdini present?
Did Andanson lock the doors from the outside and by act of magic, disappear
the keys into thin air? More likely that his killers in the DST made the
mistake of taking the keys with them. Nominalization dictates that there
will always be one mistake. The biggest mistake of the French police is
deluding themselves that anyone with a rational brain could possibly believe
their tales which defy the laws of logic.
The view in the intelligence community is that Andanson had been talking too
much and someone decided to silence him ad infinitum before he revealed
seriously damaging information in the murders of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed
and Henri Paul. There is also clear evidence, from his colleagues that he
threatened to come clean about what happened that night and was prepared to
release the photographs and that was quite simply a 'bridge too far' for his
handlers.
Andanson's friend François Dard said, "He told us that he was there. He was
behind them. He was following behind. He saw the accident and all but he
wasn't stopped by the police. He left. It is impossible that he committed
suicide. We are convinced of it. To be burned alive in a car - we don't
believe it at all." In fact, no one with half brain cell believes that
Andanson committed suicide in the circumstances ascribed. And a week after
his death, the SIPA photo agency in Paris, which he co-founded, was raided
by three armed men, wearing balaclavas. They shot a security guard in the
foot and held dozens of employees hostage for several hours. Staff phoned
the police but they did not turn up. A member of staff said: "They seemed to
know exactly what they were looking for and were confident enough to remain
in a busy building for several hours, though they stole nothing of real
value."
Indeed, the 'raiders' disabled the CCTV cameras in the offices and did not
seem stressed about the police turning up. For armed 'robbers' they were
incredibly relaxed about the whole thing. And yet again, they took computer
hard drives, laptops, cameras and the storage media for photographs. They
knew exactly what they were looking for. SIPA staff are convinced that the
'raid' had something to do with Andanson and believe French spooks carried
out the seizure of property at gunpoint.
There is also talk that the 'raiders' many have been British SAS troopers,
from the MI6's disposal team The Increment, who are alleged to have been
involved in the crash at the tunnel. Contacts we have spoken to in Paris,
however, are adamant that the French DST were behind the armed 'robbery' and
they were intent on removing the last damaging traces linking the DST and
MI6 to the murders of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul.
As journalists we have an obligation to protect sources of information. The
raid on the SIPA office was almost identical to the raids on the Big
Pictures office in London and the home of Lionel Cherruault on the night
after the crash. What exactly the French DST were looking for at the SIPA
office is not known. It is believed, though, that there was evidence in the
office, put there by Andanson, of his involvement in the crash and that he
was at the tunnel. If Diana's death was an 'accident', according to the
theories of the British and French authorities, why were any of these raids
necessary? By definition, 'accidents' do not need to be covered up because
they are caused by chance events.
And suicidal people, usually acting impulsively, do not make intricate plans
to burn themselves to death, locking the doors from the outside and losing
the keys to the car. James Andanson, was murdered by the French DST to
prevent him from destroying the 'great accident theory' and the DST were
also behind the raid on the SIPA office to eliminate the last traces of
evidence.
They must have thought it was the end of the story, how very wrong they
were! Mohamed Al Fayed and John McNamara are still on the case and will not
give up the fight for the truth. It will be interesting to see what happens
at the Inquest chaired by Lord Justice Scott-Baker at London's High
Court....
http://www.news-alliance.com/_another_suicide.html
Baldoni
> http://www.news-alliance.com/_another_suicide.html
Regarding the white Fiat. Only a complete and utter idiot would not
destroy that vehicle if it was involved in the crash in the tunnel.
It is not difficult to make a car vanish forever !
--
Count Baldoni