France has issued an arrest warrant for the only daughter of King Salman of Saudi Arabia.
Princess Hassa bint Salman, older sister of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is alleged to have ordering her bodyguard to beat up a worker at her Paris apartment in 2016.
The arrest warrant names the 44-year-old Saudi royal using a French spelling of her name, Hussat ben Salmane, and was issued in late December, a source told AFP.
Out of King Salman's 11 surviving children, Princess Hassa is his only daughter.
She is a reportedly regular visitor to the French capital and her flat, located on the prestigious Avenue Foch, close to the Arc de Triomphe in western Paris.
The alleged victim says he hired to carry out some refurbishment work at the princess's apartment in September 2016.
Out of King Salman's 11 surviving children, Princess Hassa is his only daughter.
She is a reportedly regular visitor to the French capital and her flat, located on the prestigious Avenue Foch, close to the Arc de Triomphe in western Paris.
The alleged victim says he hired to carry out some refurbishment work at the princess's apartment in September 2016.
He maintains that he took a photograph of the room that he was set to work on and was accused of taking pictures to sell them to the media.
The worker alleges that after Princess Hassa caught him taking photos, she ordered her bodyguard to beat him up.
He says he was punched in the face, his hands were tied and he was then forced to kiss the princess's feet.
He was able to leave the apartment several hours later, according to his account - without his tools, which he says were confiscated.
The bodyguard was charged on October 1, 2016 with armed violence, theft, issuing death threats and holding someone against their will.
Speaking during a hearing at the time, the bodyguard said he done the ‘minimum necessary’ to ‘restrain’ the workman after the Princess caught him taking pictures.
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