STORY – The obscure activities of the prince and his close guard, visibly ready to do anything to silence his enemies, are again in the spotlight.
Mohammed Ben Salman loves new technologies. But the passion of the young Saudi crown prince, nicknamed MBS, risks increasing the hostility that his impulsiveness was already fueling in the United States.
Under his leadership, the Saudi kingdom allegedly hacked the phone of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos in March 2018 after the publication of articles questioning a WhatsApp message sent from the MBS account in person. This intrusion led to the publication of intimate images of Mr. Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, who employed the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a columnist, murdered in horrible conditions in October 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. An assassination sponsored, according to the CIA, by MBS, which tarnished the image of Saudi Arabia in its American ally, even if Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, the prince’s great friend, continue to support him.
But blow after blow, while MBS desperately tries to turn the page of this calamitous
