The man, suspected of being involved in the assassination of the journalist, in 2018, was arrested when he was about to take a flight for Saudi Arabia.
An alleged commando involved in the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in 2018, in Istanbul, Tuesday, December 7, at Roissy – Charles-de-Gaulle airport and placed in judicial retention, learned the France-Presse Agency of Judicial and Airport Sources.
Khalid Alotaibi, 33, was arrested at 9:20 while he was about to board a flight to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. According to the information of the world, the police at the borders has passed it to the file of the persons sought. The query matched with an interpol red instructor. The man was sought in France with a view to extradition at the request of the Turkish authorities. He was placed in judicial retention.
Opaque trial in Saudi Arabia
Collaborator of the Washington Post and criticism of the Saudi regime after being close, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered at the premises of the Consulate of his country in Istanbul, on October 2, 2018, by a commando of agents from Saudi Arabia . He was 59 years old at the time of his death and his body, dismembered on the spot, was never found.
This assassination plunged Saudi Arabia into one of his worst diplomatic crises and tarnished the image of the Crown Prince, Mohammed Ben Salman, called “MBS”, appointed by Turkish and American officials as the sponsor of the ‘Assassination.
After denied the assassination, Riyadh had ended up saying that he had been committed by Saudi agents who acted alone. At the end of an opaque trial in Saudi Arabia, five Saudis were sentenced to death and three sentences of prison – the capitals have since been canceled and commuted into sentences of up to twenty years in prison.