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02 October 2019On October 2, 2018, exactly a year ago, the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi crossed the door of the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, Turkey, where he had an appointment to pick up the documents necessary for the next marriage with Hatice Cengiz, his Turkish companion. But from there Khashoggi never came out.

A year later in front of the diplomatic headquarters of Riad the journalist is remembered with a ceremony entitled "a minute of non-silence". A monument will be unveiled in his honor during to emphasize the need to shed light on the authors and instigators of the crime.

Among others, his promised bride, Hatice Cengiz, the last person to see him alive outside the building, and the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, a signatory in recent months of a special report, will participate. that there is "credible evidence" of involvement as a principal in the murder of the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The fragments of interceptions, and partly the same admissions of Riyadh arrived a few days ago with bin Salman who told the American media "I assume all responsibility", denying however that he had ordered the murder, suggest that the diplomatic headquarters, in those hours, it was turned into a real butcher's shop. It is believed that, after strangling the journalist, his executioners tore him to pieces and dissolved in the acid. His body has never been found and there is still no culprit.

The investigations conducted by Ankara led to the identification of 11 people who had arrived in Istanbul before the journalist's appointment, which on October 13, 2018 would have turned 60, and left immediately after the latter's death. Turkish President Recep Erdogan, in a Washington Post editorial on September 29, writes: "Turkey is committed to continuing to work to shed light on the assassination of Khashoggi. Where are the remains of Khashoggi? Who signed the death sentence of the journalist Saudi? Who sent the killers, including a forensic expert, aboard the two planes in Istanbul? ".

A process with undefined outlines and details of which have never been revealed is still being carried out in Saudi Arabia. The Washington post, an American daily where Khashoggi wrote editorials on Saudi Arabia, remembers it like this: "A year later, our murdered friend Jamal proves he is right".