The King of Saudi Arabia, King Salman, has arrived in France with as many as 1000 friends for a three week beach holiday in the French Riviera. While his holiday is a major boon for the local economy, residents and other tourists are furious with the closure of the public beach to necessitate security and privacy for the King and his friends.
While the King’s close friends will be lodged at the family’s villa by the Riviera coastline between Marseille and Antibes, 700 other members of the contingent will be housed in top class hotels in Cannes. This expensive holiday is seen as a boon to the hotel, tourism and retail industry. And the entire Riviera has been cordoned off by the coastguards for safety.
However, this ‘privatization’ and intrusion of the public beach has angered the locals, who have collected more than 45,000 signatures and appealed to the local authorities to protect their fundamental principle of equality of all citizens over the natural space and an intrinsic public property which should be available to everyone and not just the privileged.
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