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Al-Fayed loses appeal against photographers

An appeals court in Paris has upheld the acquittals of three photographers accused of invasion of privacy after they took pictures of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed at the scene of their fatal car crash.

The three were first acquitted last November. However, Mr Fayed's father, Mohammed Al-Fayed, filed an appeal.

The three men, whose photos were confiscated and not published, were among the swarm of photographers who pursued the car carrying Diana and her boyfriend across Paris in 1997.

They took photos after the car slammed into the pillar of a traffic tunnel.