France to compensate Al Fayed for Diana investigation delays

French authorities were criticised for “unnecessary delays” in the investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Judges at one of France’s highest civil courts ordered the French state to pay Harrods owner Mohamed al Fayed, whose son Dodi died alongside the Princess in a Paris car crash in August 1997, almost £5,000 in compensation for the delays, French reports said today.