Another Grand Misuse of Diplomatic Immunity, by a Saudi Prince Nonetheless! (Florida might be involved)

Oh, the travesty! ...

In 2007, A Saudi Arabian prince used his private Boeing 727 to smuggle $15 million (for all you Euro-kids, approx. £7.6 million) of Colombian cocaine into France under the cover of diplomatic immunity, a court was told yesterday.
Prince Nayef Bin Fawaz al-Shaalan, a member of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family was caught in a vast drug-trafficking operation in March of 2007. He faces ten years’ imprisonment and a ban from setting foot on French soil after serving his sentence, after the alleged 2 tons of coke was found in a random check after an anonymous source tipped off french police.
The Prince did not attend his "court date" and is reported to be in Saudi Arabia. But his french lawyer denied all charges against him. Hélène Langlois (the State Prosecutor at the time) asked the court in Bobigny (a city north of Paris) for an international warrant for his arrest. None of the other defendants was present in court either.
The case has strained relations between France and Saudi Arabia, according to media reports.
Informants told detectives that the cocaine had been flown from Colombia on board the Prince’s Boeing 727 and arrived at Le Bourget airport, north of Paris. French Customs officers did not inspect the baggage because the Prince, who was on board the flight, had diplomatic immunity, the court was told.
Prince Nayef is alleged to have made contact with the Medellin drug cartel through a Colombian woman whom he met while he was studying at the University of Miami during the 1970s and 1980s.
In an interview last year, he said that he was the victim of a plot to discredit him, hatched by the American authorities.
His lawyer said yesterday: “The court is being asked to convict a man who has never been seen or interviewed here, and who is accused on the basis of statements by men who the French justice system has not seen or interviewed either.”
The court in Bobigny was expected to suspend its sentence last night.
This is an ironic twist on the seedy underbelly. This doesn't concern underworld brothels or drunk "devout Muslim" vagrants caught and sent for capital lashings. But instead involved a member of the vast Saudi Prince network. As I was looking into further claims against other royalty, drug smuggling was an obvious, though impressivly large, activity of the average affluent prince.
In such a conservative, misogynistic, and Islam-charged nation, how is this grand misuse of power so frequently associated with the royal family that the nation is so founded upon? This seems quite obvious, drugs and the powers of government are naturally enemies and associates... But when this is affecting other nations (France, for example) why is the outcry not larger? Are Saudi's offended by these charges, and is there any way in a police state to hold governmental officals to the codes they are supposed to embody?