(UPDATE)Saudi Prince Al Walid bin Tallal’s Motorcade Held-Up By Masked Robbers In Paris

[It was indeed, Al Walid’s long motorcade that was hit, leaving Al Walid’s hotel “George V,” but His Highness Prince Al Walid bin Tallal allegedly wasn’t in the entourage.   French press accounts claim that the royal involved in the attack was notorious playboy prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd, son of the late King Fahd.  Abdul Aziz is widely known for his alleged rape of two women and the trial in 2012.  Abdul Aziz is alleged to be close friends to Saad Hariri, even though Lebanese/Saudi Prince Alaweed is considered to be Hariri’s number one political and economic competitor in Lebanon.  This explains to us that Abdul Aziz was probably acting as an intermediary between the wealthy prince entrepreneur and the son of Lebanon’s political hierarchy.

The reported “missing documents” were undoubtedly the objective of the militarily precise raid by masked assailants, bearing AK-47s in downtown Paris]

“Saudi prince Walid bin Talal, Hariri’s opponent both in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia…”—Joseph Rustom: Conceiving Places of Worship in Postwar Beirut

Ben Talal Hariri meeting in Paris

George V owned by Alaweed’s Kingdom Holding Company

“The historically competing interests of two political and economic titans: Saudi Prince, HRH Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the late Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafic Hariri. Both were simultaneously partners in Medgulf – as Aziziah and Saudi Oger respectively – and both, Zein states, “were always at odds.””–Steely Resolve

Saudi Prince pointed to Paris would be close to Saad Hariri

The Prince was about to leave when his convoy of ten cars, party Hotel George V on the Champs-Elysées to get to Le Bourget Airport, was attacked Sunday night at the Gate Chapelle in Paris. Photo AFP

 

In the press Abdel Aziz bin Fahd “is one of those wealthy rentier regime, turned into businessmen pulling dividends apartment complexes in the United States and Europe.”

“Who is the Saudi prince pointed at the gates of Paris?” wonders Le Monde on Tuesday, two days after the armed attack that a Saudi prince has been the victim Porte de la Chapelle.

In the columns of French daily, we learn that this is Fahd Ben Abdel Aziz, a son of the late King Fahd, he is 41 years old, he “is one of those wealthy rentier regime, turned into businessmen pulling dividends apartment complexes in the United States and Europe. “ It is also learned that the prince “is considered a playboy, and is considered by experts as a member of the” second circle “of Saudi Arabia, less close to the government.”

World journalists also claim that when he goes to Paris, Prince “often found Saad Hariri.”

In an article dated February 2012 devoted to charges against a relative of the prince, the New York Times states that “the links between Saudi Oger and Prince are known in Saudi Arabia.” Founded by Rafik Hariri, Saudi Oger is now led by Saad Hariri.

Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd. Joseph Barak / Archives AFP

This is a squad of armed men, “clearly informed” who robbed Sunday night the convoy of Saudi prince, an unprecedented attack on Paris. The convoy consists of ten cars had left the hotel George V on the Champs-Elysees, one of the most luxurious of the capital belonging to the group Kingdom Holding of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal palaces, and went to Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis) airport. It was attacked around 9:00 p.m. at the Porte de la Chapelle, in northern Paris. The “declared prejudice (east) of 250,000 euros,” said a police source, that there are no injuries. According to a source close to the case, diplomatic documents were also stolen. “But for now, we have no details on the nature of these documents. It can equally well be sensitive documents as unimportant papers,” said she told AFP. Targeted by car commando “five to eight robbers,” holders of handguns, according to another police source, was a support vehicle and opened this impressive convoy.

Like many members of the royal family to Paris on a spree, says Le Monde, Prince is housed in palaces overlooking the Eiffel Tower where “upon arrival, their Lebanese and Egyptian intermediaries bring up to them all kinds of canvassers, jewelers, carpet dealers or real estate agents. “ And invoices are often settled in cash.