A little fishy - I mean whaley

So I just read this story about how the Egyptian environment minister is accusing some Belgian diplomats of driving through a UNESCO protected desert in their 4x4s and damaging some 40 million year old whale fossils. The location, called Valley of the Whales (har) is supposedly marked with Do Not Enter signs or something.

What smells:
1) Diplomats are always power-hungry criminals who abuse their immunity for pleasure and personal gain...I mean don’t you ever watch CSI: Miami?
2) Everyone agrees it happened in July and yet the Egyptians are only saying stuff now.
3) In my exhaustive 10 minute Internet search, I couldn’t find anything about restricted access to the area.
4) The Belgians say they stayed “on the road” the whole time. Yar. Road? In the desert? If the couldn’t see the markings saying keep out, I am sure they could have “missed” the markings of the road.
5) I mean really, the Dips were probably struggling with high blood pressure from chocolate withdrawal, so can we really trust anything they say?