Saudi Arabia intends to file a compensation case for the Saudi citizen who was detained by France on charges of “involvement in the murder of Khashoggi”

The Saudi embassy in France revealed that it is working to file a compensation case for the Saudi citizen, Khaled Al-Otaibi, after the French authorities arrested him on suspicion of being named and accused of involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
In statements to the “Al-Ikhbariya” channel, the Saudi ambassador to Paris, Fahd Al-Ruwaili, said: “The embassy’s lawyer was assigned to file a claim for compensation for what happened to citizen Khaled Al-Otaibi in terms of material and moral damage,” explaining that the measures that will be taken come under “direction from the leadership and in coordination with The Kingdom’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Last Wednesday, the French prosecutor released the Saudi citizen, Khaled Al-Otaibi, who had been arrested in Paris earlier in connection with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The French prosecutor later announced that the process of verifying the identity of the arrested concluded that the arrest warrant did not apply to him, as a French police source explained that the man was arrested at the airport last Tuesday morning when his passport sounded an alarm when examined with a scanner, indicating that the warning He showed that he is wanted in connection with a murder investigation, based on a Turkish arrest warrant.

The Saudi embassy in Paris said late on Tuesday that the person arrested “has nothing to do with the case at hand” and should be released immediately.