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表題は「諜報機関の報告に疑問を持っている」とか「諜報機関に問い合わせている」の方が正しいかも。ジョン・スティーブンス ロンドン警察署長がタイムズ紙のインタビューに応じての話。
警察はMI5やMI6と協力して捜査をしており、諜報機関の集めた情報を調査しているところである。いずれチャールズ、女王からも事情聴取を行うつもりでいる。7月には報告書を出し、今年遅くか来年始めに審問を行うつもりである。
記事の後半はナイフ犯罪の増加で学校で刃物を持っていないか生徒の走査をするとかテロとの戦いとかブランケット前内相の話とか。
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1455513,00.html
Police questioning spy services over the death of Diana
By Stewart Tendler, Crime Correspondent
BRITISH secret agents are being questioned by detectives investigating the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Sir John Stevens, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police disclosed yesterday.
Sir John, who will continue to head the inquiry after he retires at the end of this week, told The Times that his officers were also examining records and intelligence collected by MI5 and MI6 on the Princess.
Sir John said that his team of seven detectives had received total co-operation from MI5 and MI6, but refused to reveal exactly what the services had collected.
“We are looking at everything we need to look at in relation to what they have got. We are talking to people in both places as well,” he said.
Sir John was asked last year by Michael Burgess, Coroner to the Queen’s Household, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Princess’s death with Dodi Fayed in August 1997, when their Mercedes crashed in a tunnel in Paris.
Before she died the Princess claimed in a letter that her husband planned to kill her, possibly in a car crash. There have also been allegations that Henri Paul, the chauffeur who was also killed, was in the pay of British Intelligence.
Sir John said that he would eventually talk to the Prince of Wales and may also interview the Queen, who has made it clear that she is prepared to see him. But he added that at the moment there was no necessity for it. “The Royal Family obviously want this job done in a proper way and no one will get in the way and that is the message I have got from them,” he said.
“They want the inquiry to draw a line under this, one way or the other.”
Sir John said that after 41 years as a policeman he had learnt “to go where the evidence takes you. Don’t be turned by false indications”.
At the moment he has no feeling about what his report will show, but it will be with the coroner in July. The inquest, at which Sir John will give evidence, will take place late this year or early in 2006.
Looking at the policing world he leaves, Sir John spoke of the growing menace of knife attacks. The Commissioner said that schoolchildren could soon be scanned for weapons when they enter school.
Scotland Yard and scientists are currently working on a hand-held version of a high-tech scanner already being used outside nightclubs and bars during raids. When the new scanners are ready head teachers worried about weapons in their schools could draw up a contract with police to use the machines.
But the major task for Sir Ian Blair, the new commissioner, will centre on keeping London safe from terrorism. Sir John said that eight attacks or plots had been thwarted but “I certainly think in my lifetime it will still remain. Make no mistake about it”. Sir John is in his early sixties.
In his last few months Sir John has criticised the Government’s plans for 24-hour drinking and urged clearer laws on the rights of householders to defend themselves against burglars.
Now, Sir John said, he is leaving office with a pledge that the Government will clarify the law, probably through guidelines from the Attorney-General, on bringing prosecutions.
On the licensing changes Sir John said that he welcomed there is now a new spotlight on drinking problems but said that there “needs to be a good detailed assessment of what is going on”.
In his time Sir John has also locked horns with David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary. The policeman said that he sympathised with Mr Blunkett’s fall from office, but although he knew of the affair with Kimberly Quinn he had never offered advice or any warning.
Protection officers and their bosses could not go beyond their duties and intrude into the private life of their wards unless national security or their safety was involved. Nor could his officers have warned Prince Harry about the infamous Nazi uniform.
In interviews for a book Mr Blunkett denigrated the Commissioner and Sir John admitted that he had read the comments. But he laughed, shrugged and said: “I thought I was in pretty good company in terms of criticism.”