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Mohamed Ben Salmane has started an 8-day official visit to France. It is the second since the 2018 assassination in Turkey of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whom the crown prince is accused of having ordered. Why do we welcome it with open arms?
A year after his visit to Paris, the Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman will have lunch on June 16 at the Élysée. He is criticized for his serious human rights violations, so why continue to receive him? Emmanuel Macron will welcome him tomorrow at the risk of shocking. Mohamed Ben Salmane is suspected of being involved in the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and of violently repressing opposition.
Pressure Putin
“We are outraged by the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia, first of all the use of the death penalty, 186 executions in 2022 against 87 in 2021“, says Jean-Claude Samouiller, president of Amnesty International France. The Élysée justifies the meeting: Emmanuel Macron would like the prince to put pressure on Putin, to whom he is close, to accelerate the end of the conflict in Ukraine. The president also wants to prepare for the summit for a new global financial pact next week in Paris.