London, accusations against Dubai Sheikh: “He had his daughters kidnapped”

LONDON – The accusation is very heavy: kidnapping and torture of two of their daughters, an intimidation campaign against their wife. And it is more than an accusation: it is the “legal opinion” of the London family court, drawn up by a high judge, the equivalent of a verdict. The defendant has tried in every way to keep it at least secret. But the judge did not accept. And now his judgment strikes like a boulder Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Sheikh of Dubai, ruler of the very small and rich emirate of the Persian Gulf.

His reputation, comments hotly BBC, is likely to be “destroyed” in the UK and internationally. With the grave embarrassment of Queen Elizabeth, whom Sheikh Mohammed attended very often, receiving a trophy from Her Majesty’s hands also last year in Ascot, after a gallop race. United by their passion for horses, the queen and emir are now separated by slanderous accusations against him. The British media speculate that the case may even result in the breakdown of diplomatic ties with Dubai, one of London’s closest allies in the Middle East.

The report compiled by Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family court of England and Wales, states that the sheikh personally orchestrated the kidnapping of a daughter, Princess Shamsa, from Cambridge in 2000, and that of another daughter, the princess, Latifa, in 2018, when she was captured by an Indian commando in the open sea and then forcibly repatriated to Dubai where she disappeared into thin air.The sheikh’s actions only emerged after his sixth and youngest wife, Princess Haya, fled to London last year, along with their two youngest children. According to what reported on GuardianHaya asked for court protection for one of her daughters, claiming that the sheikh wanted to force her to marry the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. “Mbs”, as the newspapers call him, has meanwhile been accused of involvement in the murder of the Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Kashoggi.

The legal opinion of the high magistrate has only civil value, but the judge concludes that during a twenty-year saga, Sheikh Mohammed may have probably behaved in violation of “British criminal laws, international laws, the maritime code and internationally recognized human rights standards. ” There is also for the Foreign Office, or the British Foreign Ministry, accused of blocking a police investigation into the disappearance of Princess Shamsa from Cambridge. The court was unable to ascertain the responsibility of diplomacy for the refusal of the latter to collaborate in the process.

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