25 years after the tragic crash in the L'Alma tunnel in Paris, Frederic Mailliez, the doctor who helped Lady Diana, has spoken to the Italian magazine Oggi. Mailliez recalled the painful minutes after the accident in which Diana Spencer died.
"I realized that a wrecked car had stopped in the opposite lane. How long had this been? According to the police, 30 seconds. I got out and ran to the other side ... I looked through the windows to the right to make a quick assessment. There were four people. The driver had slid forward, I barely saw him. Next to him was a man in pain (Trevor Rees-Jones, bodyguard). Behind was a woman. Upright position, knees on the floor, leaning on the seat in front. He was in profile, facing the interior of the car. He took a breath. A man was lying in the back seat (Dodi). He wasn't breathing. He appeared to have gone into cardiac arrest."
The doctor remembers all the details and reports them to Oggi:
"I called for help. Two in cardiac arrest and two in serious condition, I said. I didn't have a defibrillator. There was nothing I could do about the driver and the man in the back seat. The front passenger was complaining, he was conscious, so he could wait. The woman was breathing hard. I took the breathing mask and helped him. It was difficult. But raising his head allowed him to improve ventilation."
"In one moment I saw the radiance of her untouched, perfect face... I still have the feeling of the delicacy of that soft, shiny and well-maintained hair in my fingers...".
He then confirms what he told investigators:
"When I arrived at the tunnel, there was no paparazzi. And when they came, they never hindered my work."
Frederic Mailliez only discovered the next morning that the woman he had helped was Diana:
"My partner woke me up and told me everything. It was a shock."
Source: Oggi.it
