We have already seen Arab princes kill or dethrone their fathers and sovereigns. We have already seen princes killing, including media silence, people of the people or their servants.
And in one case as in the other, it is impunity that has always awarded either for political reasons or for segregationist reasons, the ruling families considering themselves superior to all those who populate their kingdoms.
But what has just happened to Kuwait can be interpreted as a first of its kind. First, the crime in itself is quite unprecedented: the Sheikh Fayçal Abdallah al-Sabah killed by ball in June 2010 his nephew Cheikh Basel Salem al-Sabah following an argument about responsibilities within a sports club, reports AFP. He has just been found guilty by a court and sentenced “consequently” to death. However, this judgment must be the subject of an appeal, then of a cassation before failing at the emir who has power to refute the judgment.
Naturally, we are surprised that such a case is turned up and justice, the Emirates having accustomed us to more “catimini”. But it seems that the popular earthquake in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and elsewhere have given to think about the monarchs and their entourage as to the way of managing their escapades and the misdeeds that result from it.
This is why some people think that if such a judgment has been pronounced and publicized it is because the Arab monarchies cultivate the phobia of “Arab Spring”.
