“New York Mayor Eric Adams Slams Reckless Paparazzi After Prince Harry and Meghan Chase”

The mayor said he had not yet received full information on the situation, but was concerned that on several occasions an accident had nearly occurred during the chase. “It is obvious that the press, the paparazzi, want to take the perfect photo”, he noted. “But public safety must always come first.”

Sad parallel with the death of Diana

Eric Adams also spoke about the death of Princess Diana in 1997 in a car accident in Paris following a chase with paparazzi: “I think everyone remembers the death of their mother and it would be terrible to lose an innocent bystander or something to happen to the couple”.

For the mayor of New York, he is “improbable” that the chase lasted two hours. “I find it hard to believe the two hour high speed chase. But even if it’s 10 minutes, a 10 minute chase is extremely dangerous” in a city as bustling as New York,” said Eric Adams.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle were caught Tuesday night in New York in a “car chase” involving “very aggressive paparazzi” and whose outcome could have been “catastrophic”, said the spokesperson for the couple earlier in the day. This chase “relentless, which lasted nearly two hours, nearly caused collisions with other drivers, pedestrians and two New York police officers”, added this spokesperson in an email. The couple, who were in a car with Meghan’s mother, had just left a party in New York where the Duchess of Sussex received an award from the philanthropic and feminist organization Ms. Foundation for Women.

Harry (38) and Meghan (41) left the British Royal Family in early 2020 to move to California due to conflict and tension and media pressure. Harry has long blamed the press and paparazzi for causing the car crash in Paris in August 1997 that killed his mother, Princess Diana.