After “thorough checks” of his identity, the man was revealed to be a namesake of the wanted suspect. He was eventually released, said Remy Heitz.
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The Saudi arrested Tuesday, December 7 at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, who was suspected of being a member of the commando team involved in the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, is not the suspect sought by the Turkey, announced Wednesday, December 8 the Attorney General of Paris. The man was ultimately revealed to be a namesake of the wanted suspect. He was released, said Rémy Heitz.
He had been arrested “on the basis of an international arrest warrant issued by the Turkish judicial authorities on November 5, 2018 in connection with the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi”, Rémy Heitz said in a press release. “Thorough checks on the identity of this person established that the warrant did not apply to him” and “he was released”, he added.
Critic of Saudi power after being close to it, Jamal Khashoggi, resident in the United States and columnist for the daily Washington Post, was assassinated on October 2, 2018 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in Turkey by a team of agents who came from Saudi Arabia.
Ryad had claimed that Khashoggi’s assassination had been committed by Saudi agents who acted alone, but a US intelligence report accuses Crown Prince Mohammed ben Salman of having “validated” it, an accusation forcefully rejected by the Saudi Arabia.