(8 Oct 2007)
1. Wide of Ritz hotel with bus outside
2. Wide of entrance to Ritz
3. Police and security in front of Ritz
4. Various of journalists waiting in front of Ritz on Place Vendome
5. Wide of bus in front of Ritz
6. Various of repairs being made to flat tire of bus
7. Tilt-down to wide of Ritz entrance
8. Zoom out to wide of buses, one of which is thought to contain jury, and police convoy coming through Pont de l'Alma
STORYLINE:
Jurors in a British inquest on Monday began tracing Princess Diana's last moments before the Paris car crash that killed her and Dodi Fayed 10 years ago.
Lengthy investigations on both sides of the Channel have left many questions unanswered about the deaths of Diana, Fayed and driver Henri Paul on 31 August, 1997.
The 11 jurors, assigned to try to find answers to those questions, gathered at Paris' Place Vendome on Monday afternoon 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.
Later, the jurors were heading to the Place de la Concorde, the landmark plaza on Paris' central east-west axis, said a spokesman for the inquest, who asked not to be named in keeping with British procedure.
The next stop is the most sensitive: the Pont de l'Alma.
AP Television shot footage of a bus thought to be holding the jury passing through the tunnel with a police convoy.
It was beneath this traffic bridge across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower that the Mercedes, pursued by paparazzi photographers, sped into an underpass and slammed into a concrete pillar.
The jurors were first to observe traffic patterns from outside the tunnel, the spokesman said.
Then, traffic police were to shut down the tunnel to allow jurors to enter on foot and examine the concrete.
During its two-day visit to Paris, the jury will also see 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.
Even a decade later, mystery and global curiosity are accompanying this inquiry, with court officials keeping details of the visit under wraps until the last moment amid fears of swarming paparazzi similar to those who pursued the couple in their final moments.
The inquest, headed by Lord Justice Scott Baker, is to determine when, where and how Diana and Fayed were killed.
It opened last Tuesday and was expected to last no more than six months.
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.
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