Fayed takes legal fight over Diana death to France

LONDON: Harrods-owner Mohamed Al-Fayed has taken his legal fight to ascertain the "truth" about the death of Princess Diana and his son, Dodi, to France, reports in London said on Monday.
 
Al-Fayed is taking legal action against Paul Condon, a former chief of London's Metropolitan Police, who he claims "deliberately withheld evidence" from the French inquiry into the 1997 deaths.
 
Inquiries into the deaths in Britain and France have concluded that the princess and Dodi, her then boyfriend and Harrods heir, died in a "tragic car crash" in Paris on Aug 31, 1997.
 
But al-Fayed believes that Diana's claims of a "conspiracy to kill her," made two years before her death, should have formed part of the evidence given by Condon to French investigators.
 
In 1995, Diana is alleged to have told her lawyers that she believed there was a conspiracy to "put aside" her and Camilla Parker Bowles, now the wife of Prince Charles, "either in an accident or by other means."
 
Al-Fayed alleges Condon should never have "concealed potentially relevant information from the French," reports said. No details of the timing or venue of the legal action were available.