Al Fayed, Predator at Harrods: 3. Paris
World Of Secrets
BBC
4.7 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Work trips to “the city of lights” turn dark, as the extent of Mohamed Al Fayed’s power and control becomes clear. Staying in the historic Villa Windsor in Paris should have been a dream come true, but the women are left terrified.
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| 0:00.0 | We're living under more tyranny today than our founding fathers did in 1775. |
| 0:05.6 | A US presidential election is looming, but underneath... |
| 0:09.6 | conspiracy culture rears its head once again and nothing is as it seems. |
| 0:16.0 | All those things that we had feared was coming true. |
| 0:18.0 | Burn the house down and start over. |
| 0:20.0 | It's America through the looking class. |
| 0:23.0 | Join me, Gabriel Gatehouse, as the coming storm continues. |
| 0:27.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.0 | A warning before we get started. This episode of World of Secrets contains descriptions of sexual assault, which some listeners may find distressing. |
| 0:47.0 | I was walking home and I heard the crash. It's the early hours of a Sunday morning in Paris, August 31st, 1997. |
| 0:56.0 | Christina, a young Swedish American living in the French capital to continue an international career, has just crossed the River Seine after a |
| 1:04.7 | late dinner with friends. I didn't know what it was. Christina gives it little |
| 1:09.7 | thought. It's part of the city's soundscape. |
| 1:13.0 | And then I went home and my mother called me in the morning to tell me. |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm like, oh, I heard it. |
| 1:21.0 | That exact moment I was just on the other side of the bridge, literally. |
| 1:27.6 | The details in some ways, while terrible, are not out of the ordinary. A driver with alcohol and prescription drugs in his blood |
| 1:35.0 | has lost control of his Mercedes |
| 1:37.0 | and hit a pillar. |
| 1:38.0 | His passengers sufferic injuries. But that's not why Christina's mom calls. She's called because of one |
| 1:49.6 | passenger in particular. |
| 1:51.2 | Buckingham Palace has announced that in particular. |
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