Hassa bint Salman, sister of Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is accused of having ordered her bodyguard to hit a craftsman, working in her Paris apartment in 2016. She will be put on trial in Paris on July 9, according to a judicial source.

Saudi Princess Hassa did not attend the previous trial as she has not been taken under an international arrest warrant that was issued in 2017.

In September 2016, a plumber had come to work in the Princess’ plush Avenue Foch apartment. According to his narrative, he was taking a picture of the room that he was supposed to be working on, when he was accused of secretly acquiring snapshots to sell to the media.

Disappointed, Hassa bint Salman had then, according to the worker, ordered his bodyguard to hit him. The craftsman claims to be beaten, particularly in the face, and humiliated. The bodyguard allegedly ordered him to kneel with his hands tied to kiss the princess’ feet.

“You have to kill him, this dog, he does not deserve to live,” princess Hassa yelled.

In August 2018, the investigating judge decided to send the princess to the criminal court for “complicity in willful violence with use or threat of a weapon”, “complicity in sequestration” and “theft” of a mobile phone, said the judicial source. His bodyguard, indicted on October 1, 2016, be tried for his part of the leaders of “theft”, “willful violence with use or threat of a weapon” and “sequestration”.

This is not the first time that the Saudi royal family has run afoul of the French judicial system. In March 2013, the French court ordered the provisional seizure of property acquired in France by Maha al-Sudairi, the divorced wife of former Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, due to unpaid bills.

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