Could French agents have saved Diana?

LONDON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A retired British diplomat said that a French security officer scolded him for failing to tell French intelligence that Princess Diana was in Paris.

Keith Moss, who was consul general in Paris when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in 1997, testified Thursday at a London inquest that the Frenchman approached him outside her hospital room, The Daily Mail reported.

"He described himself as being from the French equivalent of the Diplomatic Protection Group in the U.K. and he came over to me, introduced himself, and at some point in the conversation he asked me whether we had known the princess had been in France and if we did know, why his service hadn't been informed," Moss said.

Moss was cross-examined by a lawyer representing Mohammed al-Fayed. His son, Dodi Fayed, died in the crash with the princess. He said the Frenchman suggested that his service might have protected Diana.

Moss said that the British Embassy hadn't been told of her trip to France.

Fayed has suggested that the crash was arranged by British agents to keep his son and Diana from getting married.