One of the cases that most undoubtedly gave rise to conspiracy theories was the accident that caused the death of Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, in August 1997. ListVerse's Marcus Lowth brought together some of them in an intriguing list, and we at Mega Curioso have selected 5 of the most suspicious things to check out:

1 - Strange car exchange

Throughout the day, Diana and Dodi drove around Paris in a Mercedes, which was later to leave to pick up the couple at the Ritz Hotel. However, the vehicle mysteriously crashed and did not start - forcing the driver to drive another Mercedes.

Sudden crash

To conspiracy theorists, as if the sudden crash was not strange enough, the second car eventually drove off to pick up Diana and Dodi without a spare car, something quite unusual, as the couple used to drive with a car with security guards - and had been walking all day with a team nearby.

In addition, information also circulated that Diana was not wearing her seat belt, which, according to several of her closest friends, she always did. On the other hand, the security guard in the car at the time of the accident, Trevor Rees-Jones, was wearing a seat belt - which is not a common practice for these professionals as the accessory limits movement in the event of an emergency.

2 - Choice of weird route

In fact, in the fateful dawn of the crash, for some unknown reason, Henry Paul, the driver at the wheel of the Mercedes, instead of taking the shortest route to take the Ritz couple to Dodi's apartment in central Paris, he He opted for a farther path along the Seine River - and through the Pont d'Alma tunnel.

Driver chose different way than usual

According to the official version, the driver would have changed course to escape the paparazzi - who spent the day following Dodi and Diana - which is even understandable. The odd thing, however, was that the route change would have been sudden and, curiously, none of the 17 security cameras along the way taken by Henry Paul was working when Mercedes passed by.

This means that, according to conspiracy theorists on duty, vital images that could answer endless questions involving what happened on the night of the accident were never recorded.

3 - The controversy involving the driver

Investigations conducted at the time of the crash revealed that Henry Paul, the driver behind the wheel of the Mercedes carrying Dodi and Princess Diana, had drunk on the night of the crash. However, a number of specialists reportedly criticized the results of the blood tests and even the way Paul's autopsy was conducted, pointing to more than 50 basic errors that would have been made in medical procedures.

According to several experts, Henry Paul was not drunk

To make matters worse, suspicions also arose that Henry Paul would have connections with the British and French intelligence services. In addition, another fact that caught the attention of conspiracy theorists is that there is evidence that the driver had received several large deposits of money in his account in the months preceding the accident, which was never investigated.

4 - The Princess's Rescue

Even though Diana's side of the car had not suffered major apparent damage in the accident, the rescue teams took a long time to remove her from the vehicle. The car crashed into the tunnel's 13th pillar at 00:25, and authorities received the first notification of the disaster at 00:26.

The ambulance took almost an hour to leave for the hospital.

The first police arrived at the scene of the crash between 00:28 and 00:30, and had a hard time isolating the area and limiting paparazzi access. The fire department and ambulance arrived at 12:32, but the princess was only taken from the tunnel to the hospital at 1:25. Dodi was pronounced dead at the scene at 01:30.

As if little, when the ambulance finally left for the hospital, the vehicle was no more than 50 kilometers per hour, went straight through a hospital on the way and even took a five-minute stop on the way to apply an adrenaline injection in Diana.

According to the ambulance driver, the doctor on board would have asked him to drive at very low speeds (even in the case of a serious emergency) in order to save the Princess's life. As for the team going through one hospital and moving on to another, the reason was that there was a team prepared to receive the emergency at the second location.

In addition, because the ambulance took so long to get out of the tunnel bound for the hospital, the rescue team explained that doctors had to stabilize Diana's condition before leaving. But conspiracy theorists are convinced that if the Princess had been taken immediately, her chances of survival would be much higher - and that everything was orchestrated to make her die.

5 - Threats

During investigations into Diana's death, a letter came to light that the Princess would have written to Paul Burrell, her butler and personal friend. In the note, she clearly says that she suspected that the Royal Family and the Prince of Wales, her then husband, were planning to end her life.

That would be a copy of this note sent by Diana to Burrell.

The letter was sent to Burrell in October 1993, ten months after her separation was announced, and most intriguing is that, in the note, Diana reveals that her ex-husband intended to kill her and that she would die in an accident. car. The letter was made public, and at the time several people close to the Princess cast suspicion that the butler might have forged Lady Di's handwriting - but of course the conspiracy theorists did not get carried away.

* Originally published on 10/28/2016.