by FRANCE 24
French police on Tuesday arrested a suspected member of the hit squad that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul and who is wanted by Turkey to face justice over the killing. Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Paris said it was a case of mistaken identity, and that the arrested person has “nothing to do with the case”.
Khalid Alotaibi, 33, was detained by border police on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Turkey just before taking a flight to Riyadh from Charles de Gaulle Airport on Tuesday morning, judicial and airport sources said. His name appeared in a Washington Post investigation on the alleged hit squad, based on passport copies and travel details.
The Saudi embassy said late Tuesday that a Saudi national arrested in Paris has nothing to do with the Khashoggi case and should be released immediately. The embassy reaffirmed that the Saudi judiciary had already issued verdicts over the case and the people convicted were all serving sentences…
