Khalid Aedh Alotaibi, 33, was detained at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.
One of the Saudi men suspected of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi was arrested Tuesday in France. Khalid Aedh Alotaibi,33, was detained at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, police told France24. Despite an Interpol arrest warrant from Turkey, Alotaibi was traveling under his real name, cops said. He’s the first suspect in the case to be arrested outside of Saudi Arabia. Alotaibi was one of more than a dozen Saudi men who conspired to murder Khashoggi on Oct.2,2018, inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey, according to investigations by the United Nations, the United States and Turkey.
