Bruce Toussaint: the night he found himself at the scene of Lady Di’s death while leaving a nightclub

Bruce Toussaint is a journalist who began his career on Canal+ in 1994. Since 2018, it is on the antenna of BFMTV that we can find him. He was a guest on the show C to you this Tuesday, April 4. The opportunity for him to remember the day he found himself at the scene of Lady Diana’s death. “It was August 21, 1997 and I was leaving Villa Barclay, a hotspot for Parisian nightlife at the time.“, first remembered Bruce Toussaint. “On the alma bridge, there were a lot of people and bustle“, he continued before evoking a “Mercedes under the tunnel“. Young journalist, the latter immediately “called the editorial staff and I was the first to announce it on television… in complete confidentiality“, continued Bruce Toussaint. Indeed, it was Eric Gilbert who was at the head of the editorial staff. “All night there was a live broadcast with the US Tennis Open so I walked in and, with the sports team, we organized a whole thing“, did he declare.

It was August 1997 but Bruce Toussaint remembers it as if it happened yesterday. As he left the nightclub, the journalist made a very unexpected discovery. Once it gets to the editorial office, it’s a “first flash, around 3 a.m., which was made“, he recalled. This one allowed viewers to discover that Lady Diana had just had a serious car accident. “When the announcement of the death was official, we did a second flash“, recalled Bruce Toussaint. An evening that the journalist has never forgotten, especially since his career had started only a few years earlier. “I believe that Pierre already had in mind to create an information channel because it was lacking“, continued Bruce Toussaint before specifying: “It was already in the idea and this scoop simply accelerated the thing“. A memorable evening for the journalist who, unwittingly, found himself at the scene of an accident still at the heart of the news today.

Bruce Toussaint: has he ever mentioned this accident?

Bruce Toussaint was with his friends when he found himself at the scene of Lady Diana’s terrible accident, without wanting to. Seeing that many police and fire trucks were heading towards the 7th arrondissement, the young journalist decided to go there as well. “I’m running towards the entrance of the tunnel when a policeman stops me. I am less than 30 meters away”he had remembered in the columns of Paris Match in 2019 before continuing: “The tragedy has just happened. There is a macabre silence, the atmosphere is heavy. At this time, Bruce Toussaint has no idea what he will fall on. “I saw the passengers who were being evacuated from the vehicle and it was only a few minutes later that one of the police officers indicated that it was Lady Diana“, he had affirmed.