While the atmosphere of a heavy atmosphere on the forum "Davos Sahara" in Riyadh against the background of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a terrible way, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to spread some fun, chose to mock Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri.
"Hariri is in the Kingdom for two days, I hope there are no rumors of his abduction," the crown prince told attendees at a forum session at the Future Investment Initiative, which began on Tuesday and continues through Thursday.
The joke brought laughter into the room, and Hariri commented, "with all my freedom," and the interaction was clapping and laughing again.
The content of the joke itself is reminiscent of the arrest of the Lebanese prime minister last November in Saudi Arabia and forced to announce his resignation before he was allowed to leave the kingdom to Paris after the intervention of French President Emmanuel Macaron.
Although the Saudi authorities denied Hariri's arrest or forced him to resign, McCron and other Western officials - in addition to Lebanese President Michel Aoun - confirmed he had been detained.
In the midst of the case of the liquidation of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Reuters quoted sources as saying that the adviser from the Royal Court Saud al-Qahtani supervised the detention of Saad Hariri and forced him to announce his resignation.