But that’s the same girl I saw every day at the drop zone.”
“If I hadn’t worked with her and known her and seen her every day I’d probably feel the same way. “I think a lot of people think it’s fake just because it sounds so crazy,” said Cotten, who was an instructor in Dubai between 20 and now lives in Minnesota. Jauhiainen said she was with Sheikha Latifa, a daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, DubaiÂs ruler, when she fled the United Arab Emirates in a cloak-and-dagger escape by sea in March 2018, but they were thwarted when commandos intercepted their sailboat in the Arabian Sea. This Thursday, Apimage from video, shows Tiina Jauhiainen, a friend of Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, speaking in a press conference at the Conrad Hotel in London, England. Kristen Cotten, a 33-year-old skydive instructor and friend of Sheikha Latifa, told the AP the woman in the video and the identification documents is indeed her friend. In the video, Sheikha Latifa talks of her skydiving hobby. Detained in Dubai later received the video to release if the escape went wrong. She gave Jaubert and lawyers the video, as well as pictures of an Emirati passport and an Emirati ID card identifying her as a member of the Dubai ruling family.
She says that she was later released but kept under heavy restrictions on her movement. In it, she says that on orders of her father she was imprisoned off and on for several years and abused after trying to leave the Emirates. Sheikha Latifa, who is in her early 30s, appears in a 40-minute video in which she says she’s making the testimony just before the escape attempt to be released in case it fails. Another Florida lawyer, Linda Braswell, also said she was aware of Jaubert’s efforts on the sheikha’s behalf. It was one of a number of luxury projects during a period of feverish development in Dubai.īoth Jaubert and the sheikha made calls and sent emails at the start of March, seeking political asylum for her in the U.S., said Heathcock, an immigration lawyer. Jaubert, a former agent of the French DGSE spy agency, first came to the UAE in 2004 as part of a plan to build submarines for the wealthy in a project by Dubai World, a government-owned conglomerate. “That’s your training when you’re an agent. He tells you what he wants to tell you to get you to do what he wants you to do,” said Kathryn Heathcock, a lawyer based in Stuart, Florida, who had Jaubert as a client. Jaubert then escaped the country by disguising himself under an abaya and fled to India, from which he returned home to Florida in 2008. Herve Jaubert operated a recreational submarine business Exomos, which went bust during 2008. Jaubert himself fled the UAE years earlier because of a financial dispute in a cloak-and-dagger escape that he said involved disguising himself as a woman and scuba diving to escape to international waters. That, coupled with Jaubert’s own flair for the dramatic, makes discerning what happened that much more complicated. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Each side has spread critical - or false - reports about the other millions of dollars have been spent by all involved on public relations campaigns and lobbyists. The UAE and its allies Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt have boycotted Qatar since June.
A London-based for-hire advocacy group long critical of the UAE, called Detained in Dubai, has been promoting the case and says it has targeted by threats.Īll this takes place against the backdrop of a Gulf-wide misinformation war linked to a diplomatic dispute between typically clubby Arab nations and Qatar. The appearances could be an attempt to muddy the picture as local media now make no mention of the Latifa who allegedly tried to leave. In recent weeks, one of those Latifas has suddenly appeared frequently in media. Sheikh Mohammed has multiple daughters named Latifa. Jaubert said he tried to help Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, a daughter of Dubaiâs ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, flee the country in a cloak-and-dagger escape by sea in March 2018, but was thwarted when commandos intercepted her on a sailboat in the Arabian Sea. Article content This Thursday, Apimage from video, shows Herve Jaubert, right, a former agent of the French DGSE spy agency, speaking during a press conference with Radha Stirling, the founder and CEO of Detained in Dubai and others, at the Conrad Hotel in London, England.
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