Latifa’s father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is one of the richest heads of state in the world, regent of Dubai and vice president of the United Arab Emirates.
The desperate appeal “I am in a villa and this house has been transformed into a prison, all the windows are barred, I cannot open them, there are five police officers outside the house and two inside”, are the words of the 35-year-old. who says she locked herself in the bathroom to record her help messages.
Attempts to escape Latifa had already tried to escape on two occasions: the first time at the age of 16, but it was only after making contact with the French entrepreneur Herve Jaubert in 2011 that a long escape planning began, with help of the woman’s capoeira instructor, Mr. Jauhiainen. On February 24, 2018, Latifa and Jauhiainen with a rubber dinghy headed to international waters, where Jaubert was waiting for them on a yacht flying the US flag.
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The return to Dubai Eight days later, however, a commando broke into the boat off the coast of India, Princess Latifa was brought back to Dubai and there has been no news from her since. Jauhiainen and the ship’s crew were released after two weeks of detention in Dubai. Now, in another recording published online on the BBC website, the Emir’s first bed daughter charges that she was even “drugged” on that occasion, before being taken back to her gilded prison.
Fear of friends In the latest video published she appears even more distressed: “I don’t know what they want to do with me, the situation gets worse every day, I’m really tired of all this”. The sending of secret messages for help was then interrupted and some friends of the princess delivered the videos to the broadcaster and asked for the intervention of the United Nations. For some time, the Emirati authorities have said that Latifa is safe with her family. A rumor of his bipolar disorder had also been spread, which turned out to be false.
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