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Playboy Saudi prince gets robbed in Paris $335K




The Saudi prince who fell victim to a spectacular armed raid in Paris, losing 250,000 euros in the process, was the youngest son of the former King Fahd with something of a globetrotting playboy reputation, it emerged on Tuesday.
According to sources at Le Bourget airport, where the prince's private jet was waiting, and police sources told the media that the victim was Abdul Aziz Bin Fahd, the multi-millionaire son of King Fahd, who died in 2005.
The prince, who is 41-year-old became the victim of a brazen heist on the Paris ring road on Sunday night when a gang of five to eight heavily armed bandits hijacked the lead car of his 10-car convoy and drove off with three aides.
About 250,000 euros (USD 335,000) and documents were stolen by the gang, but released the aides and later put a match to the prince's Mercedes and one of their own in the village of Saint-Mesmes, northeast of Paris, approximately 40km from the scene of the crime.
The professionalism of the raid pointed to a possible inside job, said the Investigators today. "They must have had accomplices to have been so well informed, that's clear," said one source close to the probe. "They sure weren't amateurs," added this source, stressing: "They didn't choose that location by chance."
The source further said, "There is no light and probably poor video surveillance there".
Investigators were impressed by the speed of the attack and the fact they knew exactly which car to hit.
Within seconds, and without firing a shot, they drove away with the suitcase filled with hard cash and, according to French media reports, official embassy sensitive documents.
"There aren't that many groups capable of such an attack. We know from the way they acted that they were more than small-time bandits -- more so from than the amount of money they stole," said one investigator. The brazen larceny had all the elements of a Hollywood thriller.
According to local daily Le Parisien, the documents taken in the attack were "sensitive" diplomatic documents but a police source told yesterday this was not certain.
"They could be sensitive documents but they could equally well be unimportant," the source said.
But, as one of the detectives now on the investigation pointed out, "the robbers could just have taken the money".
The Saudi embassy in Paris has remained tight-lipped about the affair but put out a statement that was carried on the official news agency in Saudi Arabia, stressing that the stolen car was a Mercedes Viano with German plates and rented by a Saudi citizen, “who was heading for the airport with his luggage.”
The police did not disclose the names of the victims.
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