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A protester holds a photo of the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi
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According to the police, a man was arrested at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport who is alleged to be involved in the murder of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The police in Paris confirmed the arrest of the wanted person to SPIEGEL.
The man was arrested in the morning shortly before boarding on his flight and is now in custody of the border police at the airport.
According to the French broadcaster RTL, 33-year-old Khaled Aedh A., a former member of the Royal Guard in Saudi Arabia, was arrested.
Apparently he wanted to fly to Riyadh.
Interpol had been looking for him with an international arrest warrant.
A. is considered a member of the command that killed Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
The attorney general of Paris applied for his extradition to Turkey.
If the arrested person accepts the extradition, he would be put on a plane to Turkey, according to judicial sources.
Otherwise, following a judicial decision, he would remain detained in France until he can be extradited to Turkey.
Khashoggi disappeared from the Saudi Arabian consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul in October 2018.
It later emerged that he had been murdered by a special squad.
His body has disappeared to this day.
The US government published an intelligence report in February that said the Saudi crown prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman was implicated in the murder of Khashoggi.
The Crown Prince denies this.
From the United States, Khashoggi had published opinion pieces in the Washington Post that criticized the Crown Prince.
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