PARIS (Reuters). A Saudi national was taken into custody at Paris’ airport after his passport triggered an alert. This was in spite of Saudi Arabia’s claim that it was a mistaken identity.

Sources in France have identified the suspect in Tuesday’s arrest as Khaled Al-Otaibi, a French law enforcement source. This is the same name that was used to identify a member of the Saudi Royal Guard who has been listed as being involved in Khashoggi’s murder in U.S. sanctions documents.

Paris, Saudi Embassy said Tuesday that an arrested man “has nothing to relate with the particular case” and should be immediately freed.

On Tuesday morning, when the scanner detected his passport as suspicious while scanning it, the suspect was taken into custody at the airport. The police source confirmed that the incident occurred on Wednesday.

Sources said that the alert revealed that he was wanted for murder and was also based on an arrest warrant from Turkey.

French law provides that authorities are allowed to check who the suspect is within 48 hours of his arrival at the airport. This means they have until Thursday morning (0900 GMT), to confirm their identity and to either free him or to extend the time he’s held and initiate extradition processes.

The French police hold his passport details, a photo of very poor quality that was based on the Turkish warrant for arrest, and no biometric information. However, they may request additional information from Turkey, the source said.

An investigation by the U.N. in 2019 revealed that Al-Otaibi was part of a group of 15 Saudi men involved in the murder Khashoggi’s journalist husband. He went to the consulate seeking a document that would allow him to marry the woman he loves.

Khashoggi is a Washington Post journalist, and he was critical of Saudi Arabia’s defacto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Khashoggi was last seen at Istanbul’s Saudi Consulate on Oct. 2, 2018. Turkish officials think his body was removed and dismembered. His remains were not found.

A U.S. intelligence report released in March https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Assessment-Saudi-Gov-Role-in-JK-Death-20210226v2.pdf this year said Prince Mohammed had approved the operation to kill or capture Khashoggi. Saudi Arabia’s government denied involvement in the killing or capture of Khashoggi and dismissed the findings.

Last weekend, French President Emmanuel https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/khashoggis-shadow-macron-set-saudi-talks-with-crown-prince-2021-12-04Macron held face-to-face talks in Saudi Arabia with Prince Mohammed, becoming the first major Western leader to visit the kingdom since Khashoggi’s murder.