Claims of Dangerous Paparazzi Chase of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in New York: A Closer Look

Were Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle really dangerously chased by paparazzi in New York on Tuesday night? The couple said they were caught in a “chase” with photographers, the outcome of which could have been “catastrophic”. This “chase” involved “very aggressive paparazzi”, and the outcome could have been dramatic, said the couple’s spokesperson. A scene that inevitably revives the specter of the death of Diana, victim of a dramatic accident in 1997 in Paris, while she was being chased by photographers. But several witnesses and the New York police seem to largely relativize the scene which took place Tuesday evening in New York

A “relentless chase, which lasted almost two hours” according to the couple

According to the couple’s spokesperson, on Tuesday evening, the chase “relentless, which lasted nearly two hours, nearly caused collisions with other drivers, pedestrians and two officers of the New York police”. The couple had just left a party in New York, where the Duchess of Sussex had been rewarded by a philanthropic and feminist organization.

Harry and Meghan on Tuesday night in New York. © AFP – Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency

The New York police, who helped the couple, relativize the danger

Questioned, NYPD responded that she had “provided assistance to the private security team protecting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex”. Certainly, acknowledged a police spokesman, “there were many photographers” Tuesday evening, “making their transport (in New York) difficult”. But Harry and Meghan “Arrived at their destination and there was no collision, no injured person, no arrest or summons” by law enforcement, he said.

Images presented as showing part of the scene, and not the entire journey of the couple, were broadcast on the social network Twitter.

“I never felt in danger, it wasn’t like a chase in a movie”

A taxi driver, Sukhcharn Singh, was found by the Washington Post. He transported the couple and a security guard for ten minutes and disputed the term of “pursuit”. “I never felt unsafe, it wasn’t like a chase in a movie. They were quiet and looked scared but it’s New York, a safe city,” he assured.

A two-hour chase at full speed, impossible for the mayor of New York

But according to a source close to the couple, on the contrary, the “chase” involved half a dozen vehicles*”driven by individuals in a reckless and dangerous manner for the procession and everyone around”.* New York Mayor Eric Adams took care to cite the disappearance of Diana before relativizing the scene in turn. “I don’t think many of us don’t remember how her mom died,” he said.

While denouncing in front of the press a behavior of paparazzi “a bit reckless and irresponsible”, the mayor, a former police captain, questioned the probability of a “two-hour chase at full speed” “But even a ten-minute chase is extremely dangerous in New York”, he observed.

2023-05-18 07:00:00
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