What happened to the driver, the Ritz security chief Henri Paul, with $35,000 a year and $420,000 banking account? Looks like a perfect CIA insider, and a very important thing about the professional driver is its not a problem to hit his own car and kill his passengers. Henri Paul was assigned at the last minute to drive the couple on august 31st from the Ritz back door to elude the paparazzi. He tried to outrun the paps by speeding down a riverfront expressway, but somehow lost control of the Mercedes S280 near the entrance of the Alma Tunnel and crashed into a concrete pillar at an estimated speed of 100 km/h. He died on impact of a severed spine and a ruptured aorta. He wasn't drunk and he didn't smell like alcohol. Blood samples showed he had alcohol level equal to 3 bottles of wine. The tests showed also extraordinarily high levels of carbon monoxide in his blood (20.7), which should have caused a severe headache, dizziness, confusion and absolute aversion to alcohol. Very heavy smokers can have a level of up to 9%, and Henri Paul wasn't a heavy smoker. There were no ventilation problems in his apartment, office or car. The fumes from the gas didn't go into the car because no other passenger was affected.
