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http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wn&q=%22Al-Shaalan%22&scoring=d
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "As he had diplomatic status, customs officers did not inspect the baggage."
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070328171135.ggwbnn2d&cat=null
28/03/07 18h12 GMT+1
AFP News brief
"Saudi prince tried in France on cocaine running charges"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Saudi prince went on trial in his absence Wednesday accused of using his diplomatic immunity to smuggle two tonnes of cocaine into France.
Prince Nayef Bin Fawaz Al-Shaalan is one of 10 people facing charges relating to a shipment that allegedly arrived on his private Boeing 727 at a Paris airport eight years ago.
None of the accused, who include three Colombian drug-traffickers already convicted in the affair in the United States, were present in the courtroom in the Paris suburb of Bobigny.
Prince Nayef, a grandson of Saudi Arabia's founding monarch Abdulaziz, was represented in court by his twin brother and the lawyer Jacques Verges, who specialises in high-profile briefs.
The prince is alleged to have made contacts with Colombia's Medellin cartel via a woman whom he met while studying at the University of Miami in the 1980s.
According to the prosecution, in May 1999 he arranged for the cocaine to be packed in briefcases and flown with him to Le Bourget airport outside Paris where it was picked up by aides. As he had diplomatic status, customs officers did not inspect the baggage."