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Saudi king departs French Riviera resort after beach controversy
http://www.dw.com/en/saudi-king-departs-french-riviera-resort-after-beach-controversy/a-18623120King Salman of Saudi Arabia has left his luxury French Riviera holiday home. Local officials said a beach that was controversially closed for the visit is due to reopen to the public.
Saudi king departs French Riviera resort after beach controversy
02.08.2015
Just over a week after arriving in France for what was expected to be a three-week vacation, local officials said the Saudi king boarded a flight from Nice airport to Morocco on Sunday.
"We can assume that the king has ended his stay at Golfe-Juan," Alpes-Maritimes region official Philippe Castanet told news agency AFP, referring to the town of Vallauris Golfe-Juan where the monarch's holiday home is. Castanet said about half of the 79-year-old king's 1,000-person entourage had also left.
Members of his inner circle were understood to be staying in the king's villa, with the rest in top hotels in nearby Cannes.
Castanet told AFP that security measures which had been in place around the luxury holiday home would be "progressively lifted." He also said the stretch of Mirandole beach in front of it, which had been controversially closed to swimmers and sunbathers, would reopen on Monday.
