Police and judicial sources initially told French media that he was the Khalid al-Otaibi wanted under an international arrest warrant for being part of the hit squad that carried out Mr Khashoggi's murder.
Turkey has issued an Interpol Red Notice, which amounts to an international arrest warrant for 26 people over the grisly assassination of the former Washington Post contributor, while the US has also announced sanctions on the alleged killers.
Millions of Saudi citizens who were born during the last Hijri calendar century were registered with the fictitious birthday of the first of the month of Rajab. For two or more people to have the same name and date of birth is quite common. A demonstrator dressed as Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman protests outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC, on 8 October, 2018.The executive director of the DAWN pro-democracy group founded by Mr Khashoggi, Sarah Leah Whitson, called the mistaken arrest a "remarkable display of incompetence" by French police, but she stressed what she called the "good news."
The group's head Christophe Deloire took note of the mistake, adding: "We remain mobilised so that the killers of Jamal Khashoggi appear before an independent judicial authority."
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