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NINETY-THREE PER cent of Mirror poll respondents believed the "flash before the crash" nonsense, thus creating another Diana death myth. French investigators were unsure whether to laugh or to cry when they watched a tape of the ITV film which until recently was on sale on the Fulcrum TV web site for £25. The site (www.fulcrumtv.com) also featured a graphic of Levi's "flash before the crash" tale.
Anderson accuses me of "trying to make money out of ITV's successful documentary" without explaining how I am supposed to be achieving this improbable feat. I wrote to ask Anderson and Belfield how much money ITV and Fulcrum had made out of selling their film around the world. They refused to respond, citing "commercial confidentiality". Attempting to defend profits made from the indefensible has rarely served ITV well in the past, as Carlton found out in unsuccessfully attempting to defend The Connection, for which it was fined more than £2m by the ITC.
Anderson must dread the thought of the ITC taking up the calls to investigate his film. No wonder he attacks my book so vehemently and orders lawyers to contact newspapers proposing to publish my criticisms of ITV.
Fayed's decision to grant his first, post-crash network TV interview was richly rewarded as he was not asked a single critical question. Why did ITV permit this to happen? The failure of Fayed's security machine to protect Diana was not mentioned, the decision by the Fayeds to entrust Diana's safety to a driver with no permit to drive a car registered as a limousine was not mentioned and the misinformation his PR operation has been churning out about Diana and Dodi's relationship since the crash was not questioned.
Nothing raised by the film was of any interest to the French investigation, but my book sheds new light on what really happened in Paris and exposes Fayed's subsequent blame-deflection exercise. I believe that this provides enough fresh evidence to warrant an ITC investigation into the film.
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