World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-09-02

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[0:18] On World News Tonight this Tuesday, now

[0:21] a French judge decides that the

[0:23] photographers who followed Princess

[0:25] Diana may have contributed to the crash

[0:27] that killed her. In London, the endless

[0:30] line of those who miss her. Fireworks on

[0:34] Wall Street. A record gain for the Dow

[0:37] Jones

[0:37] Industrials and the bounty hunters in

[0:40] Arizona who killed an innocent

[0:46] couple from ABC. This is World News

[0:50] Tonight with Peter Jennings. Good

[0:52] evening. We're going to begin in Paris

[0:54] tonight where there is a fierce legal

[0:55] debate about whether the photographer is

[0:57] following the Princess of Wales last

[0:59] Saturday night did in a legal and

[1:01] criminal sense contribute to Diana's

[1:03] death as well as her friend and their

[1:06] driver who died as well. They've been in

[1:08] a Paris jail ever since the accident.

[1:09] The photographers and today they

[1:12] appeared in court in Paris. Here's ABC's

[1:14] Sheila McVicker.

[1:18] All day, a crowd waited outside the

[1:20] courthouse in Paris while the French

[1:21] judge interviewed each of the seven

[1:23] photographers. The charges they now face

[1:25] are serious and carried jail terms of up

[1:28] to 5 years. The first charge,

[1:30] involuntary manslaughter, relates to

[1:32] what they allegedly did before the

[1:34] crash. It means the judge found evidence

[1:36] the actions of the photographers

[1:37] following Princess Diana may have

[1:39] contributed to the crash. The second

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