British High Court judge Scott Baker boards a bus carrying jurors, advisers and investigators Oct. 8, 2007, in Paris. The jurors are on an unprecedented two-day trip to the French capital to tour the places Diana visited on the night she died.
The 11 jurors gathered at Paris' Place Vendome on Monday, Oct. 8, 2007, to view the front of the Ritz Hotel. They then viewed the hotel's back entrance, from where Diana and Fayed slipped out and into a Mercedes on their fatal journey, Aug. 31, 2007.
Jurors and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed enter the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris Monday Oct. 8, 2007. Under British law, inquests are held when someone dies unexpectedly, violently or of unknown causes. After exhaustive investigations by French and British authorities, both dismissed conspiracy theories and concluded the driver was drunk and speeding.
As police blocked off traffic, jurors and inquiry members visited the Pont de l'Alma and the traffic tunnel, where the Mercedes carrying Princess Diana, pursued by paparazzi, sped into the underpass and slammed into a concrete pillar. The jury also visited the crash site in the evening, to more closely replicate the conditions of the midnight crash, and visit the Pitie Salpetiere Hospital where Diana died.
Members of jury and court officials from the Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi al Fayed watch the traffic at the entrance to the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, Oct. 8 2007, where the Mercedes the couple were travelling in crashed in 1997.
Police escort jurors and court officials from the British Coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi al Fayed to the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, Oct. 8, 2007. Jurors are in Paris to retrace Diana's final journey, including a visit on foot to the scene of her fatal crash in a central Paris underpass.
A bus carrying members of the jury and court officials from the British coroner's inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed enters the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, Oct. 8, 2007, where the Mercedes the couple were travelling in crashed in 1997.
British investigators and British jurors hearing the inquest into Princess Diana's death, arrive at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, Monday, Oct. 9, 2007. The court, "sitting" in extraordinary session for two days in France, retraced the last movements of the ill-fated couple from the Ritz Hotel where they spent their final evening together to the crash scene in the Alma underpass.
British investigators and British jurors hearing the inquest into Princess Diana's death, stand in Cambon street, in front of the back door of the Ritz Hotel in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007. The court, "sitting" in extraordinary session for two days in France, retraced the last movements of the ill-fated couple from the Ritz Hotel where they spent their final evening together to the crash scene in the Alma underpass.
One of the stops on Oct. 9, 2007, was to the building containing Dodi al Fayed's apartment on Rue Arsene Houssaye in Paris, with a Cartier store located on the ground floor. Princess Diana, 36, and Fayed, 42, were heading from the Ritz Hotel to Fayed's private Paris home near the Arc de Triomphe when they were killed.