riyad denies that the man in detention has a link with the murder of the journalist in October 2018, in Istanbul.
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Who is the Saudi national, named Khaled Aedh al-Otai, arrested on Tuesday, December 7 at Roissy airport, while it was about to get into a flight to Riyadh? The answer given to this question could have embarrassing diplomatic repercussions for Paris.
The police at the French borders (PAF) states that the person in retention was part of the commando of fifteen agents who murdered the Journalist and Dissident Saudi Jamal Khashoggi, by a lethal injection, on October 2, 2018, in Istanbul. The authorities of the Kingdom affirm on their side that the arrested man has nothing to have with this case and ask for his immediate release. “The true Khaled Al-Otaiibi and all accused in this case are imprisoned in the Kingdom,” said a Saudi security source to AFP.
The imbroglio occurs three days after the meeting of President Emmanuel Macron with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman, “said” MBS “, in Riyadh. A head-to-head very criticized by human rights organizations who accused the French Head of State for “rehabilitating” the one that the CIA considers as the sponsor of the Istanbul operation.
“BIPED” on the computer of the PAF
It was 9:20 Tuesday, when the Khaled Al-Otabi passport has “bleeding” on the computer of Charles de Gaulle’s PAF. Its name is entered in the file of the wanted persons (RPF) and is the subject of an interpol red notice, by virtue of a mandate of arrest and extradition for “assassination” facts issued by the Turkish authorities. As the procedure is desired in these cases, the Saudi traveler has been placed in “judicial retention”, a form of custody that can last up to forty-eight hours.
A name Khaled Al-Otaibi, a member of the Saudi Royal Guard, actually participated in the bloody equipped with Istanbul. On October 2, 2018, according to the report of Agnès Callamard, the UN expert who investigated Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination, this agent was posted in the Saudi Consul in Istanbul. This is where the commando got rid of the journalist’s body, probably by solventing it in acid, after his dismemberment in the consulate, made by a medical examiner, arrived from Riyadh with a bone saw.
By the 21st of October, after three weeks of denial, the Saudi authorities finally recognized the death of Jamal Khashoggi, speaking of an operation that went wrong, led by items out of control, without the downstream of MBS, Which had already, at that time, the high hand on the security services. Khaled Al-Otaiibi has been incarcerated with all other members of the Commando as well as consulate employees and the number two of Saudi intelligence services.
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