Three years ago the widow stripped Edmond Safra's security.
His burglar alarm--gone.
His security team--gone.
His Monaco police response--gone.
His 3mm manganese plate doors--not locked.
So, what worked of the extensive renovations completed July 1, 1999?
The separate air handling system saved the widow.
The separate electrically-controlled steel roller blinds allowed Lily to escape; kept Edmond a prisoner, and firemen at bay.
The category three four-layer inch-and-five-sixteenths bulletproof glass kept firemen from entering.
[Three times in the fire report it is stated that the firemen were unable to break the bulletproof glass--yet on DatelineNBC "Who Killed the Billionaire?" November 21, 2000, is video showing a hole in the glass described in the fire report as 20cm/8in in diameter. A hole to ventilate a fire made by no one.]
Police destroyed the clothes Ted was wearing; clothes which would have shown the cuts, and the blood.
The clothing they offered into evidence bore no cuts nor bloodstains, was brand-new, and was sportswear not allowed by the dress code for nursing staff on duty.
The sudden conflagration at 6 a.m. is mentioned three times in the fire report.
Ted had been taken to the hospital an hour before that.
European accounts still discuss initial reports of shots fired, police radio accounts of shots; the maitre d's account of shots.
Police seized--then released--two men of Middle Eastern descent in the underground parking garage beneath La Belle Epoque.
For Edmond, perhaps not such a belle epoque; for Lily, tres belle.
Certainly our CIA is investigating the secret of Ted Maher's psychokinetic powers to cause a sudden conflagration a kilometer away while anesthetized--
The solution to our need to reach Saddam Hussein in his subterranean bunker is at hand in a prison on the cote d'azur--
Or perhaps just another police state committing just another outrage in service to the rich, the powerful, and the thoroughly amoral.