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Princess Latifa’s escape yacht is sunk

Nostromo, the vessel that was to take Dubai’s Princess Latifa to safety and freedom, has sunk in Sri Lanka

Princess Latifa’s escape yacht is sunk

Nostromo, the vessel that was to take Dubai’s Princess Latifa to safety and freedom, has sunk in Sri Lanka under what the Captain describes as suspicious circumstances.


In 2018, a hopeful Sheikha Latifa Al Maktoum crossed Dubai’s border to Oman and jet-skied out to international waters where she boarded the 100ft yacht, Nostromo, captained by French navy veteran, Hervé Jaubert. “She recorded videos and voice recordings which she WhatsApp’d to me”, reports Crisis Manager Radha Stirling, the CEO of Detained in Dubai who was helping Princess Latifa and Hervé Jaubert when they were aboard the yacht fleeing Dubai. “She told me she had made the daring decision to flee her father, the ruler of Dubai, after years of torture and egregious human rights abuses. She was so relieved to be free, under the stars and the protection of Hervé’s US flagged yacht”


Although Latifa had escaped the jurisdiction of the UAE and should have been safe, her father orchestrated an illegal raid on Nostromo, with the secretly provided support of US personnel and the Indian Coast Guard. “Latifa was texting me during a militarised hostile boarding of Nostromo, telling me she heard gunshots”. Jaubert and his crew were violently beaten by Indian and Emirati special forces operatives, while Latifa was abducted and taken by chopper and plane back to Dubai.

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