PARIS — A French judge has issued an arrest warrant for a Saudi princess related to suspicions that she ordered her bodyguard to hit a plumber working in her Paris apartment, a person close to the investigation said on Thursday.

The princess, Hassa bint Salman, is the daughter of King Salman, the Saudi monarch, and the half sister of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The arrest warrant was issued in December but reported in the French media only this week. Like a number of members of the Saudi royal family, the princess owns property in France.

The incident described in the warrant occurred almost 18 months ago in Princess Hassa’s apartment on Avenue Foch in the well-heeled 16th Arrondissement, and caused a minor stir at the time. The plumber said he had taken a photograph or photographs with his cellphone so he could place the furniture back where it had been before he began his work.