London, England.
Princess Latifa Al Maktoum, one of the daughters of Emir of Dubai, denounced in a series of videos released on Tuesday by the British chain BBC which remains held as “Hostage” in a villa after I had he tried to run of the country from 2018 and fear for his life.
“I am recording this video from a bathroom, because it’s the only room with a door I can to block. (…) Soy a hostage and this villa has become a prison. All the windows are closed with bars“I can’t open any of them,” Al Maktoum, 35, said in one of the videos.
“Every day I am Fr.reoccupied for my safety Yes for my life. I don’t know if I’m going survive to this situation “, he maintains Princess, which ensures that five police officers monitor Mansion from the outside, while two others are kept inside.
His daughter Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dub orderas well as the vice president and prime minister of United Arab Emirates, recorded those messages “for a few months” in secret, but the communications “they stopped“, warns the BBC.
Some of his friends “urge United Nations to act “, the chain emphasizes.
TRYING TO ESCAPE
Latifa tried escapes from Dubai for the first time when he was 16, but he began to plan his most serious attempt fled in 2011, after maintaining contact with French businessman Herve Jaubert, according to the British public channel.
On February 24, 2018, Princess boarded an inflatable boat next door Tiina Jauhiainen, who had been his instructor dand martial arts, and sailed to international waters, where a I already with American flag.
Eight days later, off the coast India, the ship was assaulted by “commands” who used targeted grenades of smoke both women and returned to Dubai to Latifa, about which nothing had been heard before, according to the report published by the BBC.
THE CHESS IN THE COURTS
In 2019, tensions between lthe emir’s family they reached British courts, When Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordania, the sixth wife of the millionaire president, traveled to UK and asked protection for her and two of their children.
In that case, the High Court of England found that, among other things, it was provedThe Sheikh “ordered and orchestratedor the forced return of his sonand Latifa at the family home in Dubai “ twice, June 2002 and February 2018.
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“In 2002 the return took place from Dubai’s border with Oman, while in 2018 he confiscated an armed commando at sea off the coast India”, describe the sentence.
The judge also points out that in August 2000 the emir organized the “kidnapping” of his It is Shamsa to take it from United Kingdom in Dubai.
According to the British press, the 71-year-old president was married to six womenand they had at least 30 strains. EFE