FILE - Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a property league successful Manama, Bahrain connected Dec. 15, 2014. A fishy successful the 2018 sidesplitting of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was arrested Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021 successful France, according to a French judicial official. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File) (Hasan Jamali, Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

PARIS – French authorities announced Wednesday that a antheral arrested astatine Paris-Charles De Gaulle Airport for allegedly being linked to the 2018 sidesplitting of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was misidentified.

The Paris General Prosecutor's bureau issued a abbreviated connection Wednesday aft implicit 24 hours of checks, saying that the antheral arrested Tuesday was not the Khalid Aedh al-Otaibi, who is wanted nether a 2019 Turkish apprehension warrant.

“The (arrest) warrant does not use to him,” the connection said, without elaborating.

French media reported that the mix-up was related to the information that the detained antheral had an identical sanction to al-Otaibi.

A judicial authoritative told The Associated Press that the fishy tin beryllium held until Thursday greeting astatine the latest, but helium volition apt beryllium released before.

The Saudi Embassy successful Paris ever maintained that it was a lawsuit of mistaken identity, and the arrested antheral “had thing to bash with the lawsuit successful question.”

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