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French officials have freed a Saudi man a day after he was arrested on suspicion of links to the murder of the dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, saying Wednesday that it was a case of mistaken identity.
French police concluded that the Alotaibi that had been arrested shared his name with, but was not the same person as, the Alotaibi that has been accused by the Turkish government of participating in the murder.
The Saudi Embassy in Paris issued a statement saying the man arrested "has nothing to do with the case in question" and demanded his immediate release.