French prosecutors will now begin proceedings for a potential extradition there. He was arrested on the basis of a warrant issued by Turkey in 2019, the police source said. “Excellent news that the French police did not turn a blind eye to the presence on the national territory of Khaled Al-Otaibi,” media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said.
“I welcome the arrest of one of Jamal’s killers today in # France, ” the journalist’s fiancee, Hatice Cengiz said on Twitter. The arrest came just days after French president Emmanuel Macron held talks in Saudi Arabia with de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, becoming the first major Western leader to visit the kingdom since Khashoggi’s murder.
One of the suspected killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was arrested at Roissy airport near Paris on Tuesday as he was about to board a flight to Riyadh.