Thursday September 11 7:37 AM EDT Mother of Diana's Driver Says Son Vilified By Alister Doyle PARIS (Reuter) - The mother of Princess Diana's driver complained on Thursday he was being unfairly vilified for the fatal accident in Paris and denied he was alcoholic or depressive. The investigation focused on driver Henri Paul after tests showed he had taken an anti-depressant, another drug used to calm aggression and was three times over the legal drunken-drive limit -- a dangerous combination according to doctors. "My son was not an alcoholic, he's now paying for the personalities that he was driving," Paul's mother Giselle told Le Figaro daily. Henri Paul died with Diana and her companion Dodi Al Fayed in the Aug. 31 crash by the Seine River. "Can one imagine the Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed would have agreed to get into a car driven by a drunk?" she asked, adding: "Henri had the full confidence of his employer." Paul's family had been avoiding the media since the crash. She said the 41-year-old Paul was "not depressive and was getting along perfectly." "I don't need to defend him. I wish any mother could have a son like him." She said that she had not even received an official death certificate. "Is this the way the people should be treated?" In Washington, a spokesman for the Al Fayed family said on Wednesday that an independent autopsy was needed to confirm once and for all Paul's condition at the time. Three tests so far have shown he was three times over the drink drive limit. Claude Garrec, who played tennis with Paul on Saturday morning hours before the fatal crash, said that they went for a drink after the game at midday in a Paris bar. "He drank only a cola light," he told Reuters. "He didn't have the profile of an alcoholic or a depressive," Garrec said. "He always walked straight. I can't deny that he drank, but not so much that it was a problem." Garrec said he and Paul played tennis every Saturday. "We were both average players," he said, adding he had no knowledge that Paul was taking anti-depressants or other medication. On Wednesday night, a lawyer for the Al Fayed family admitted for the first time that driver Paul should not have been driving. "Obviously Mr Paul should not have been at the wheel," lawyer Bernard Dartevelle told France 3 television. "But he was probably the only one to be aware of his real condition." Al Fayed's lawyers have argued that a posse of photographers pursuing Diana's car on motorcycles share responsibility for the crash even if Paul was unfit to drive. Without them, they argue the high-speed chase would never have happened. Nine photographers and a motorcyclist for a photo agency have been placed under investigation on suspicion of manslaughter and failing to help accident victims. Their lawyers argue that the case against them collapses because Paul had drunk the equivalent of a bottle and a half of wine and had been taking a Prozac-like anti-depressant and a drug to calm aggressiveness and agitation. The daily France-Soir said on Thursday that a driver on the same expressway by the Seine River said his car had been flashed by a speed camera 20 minutes before the accident, contradicting police insistence that there were no speed traps there. Al Fayed's lawyers have suggested a camera flash might have temporarily blinded Paul. The tunnel comes after a long straight stretch, with the road bending left and dipping. "I was flashed 20 minutes before Diana by a radar control at the entrance of the tunnel," the witness told France-Soir. One witness, Francois Levi, has spoken of seeing a motorcycle swerve in front of Diana's Mercedes and seeing a flash go off just before the accident. Photographers have insisted they were far behind the speeding car.