- "By the beard of the Prophet!"
- —Omar Ben Salaad
Omar Ben Salaad is an Arab merchant who appears in The Crab with the Golden Claws. He is a wealthy sheikh based in the port city of Bagghar in Morocco, then a French colony. Sheikh Omar Ben Salaad is voiced by Gad Elmaleh in the motion-capture film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. He is portrayed as a collector and lover of classical music. He possesses one of the three replicas of The Unicorn. Bianca Castafiore unknowingly breaks the crystal case with her voice, thus permitting Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine to steal a capsule with the poem of the scroll.
Ben Salaad as seen in the animated series.
Ben Salaad as seen in the book series.
History
Omar Ben Salaad is one of the most respected men in the city of Bagghar and owns a palace with servants, horses, cars, huge amounts of land and a private plane. Ben Salaad was the one who wired the initial order to have Tintin thrown overboard, but Tintin's escape prevented it.