The Saudi Arabian embassy in Paris said Tuesday evening that the Saudi arrested earlier in the day in France had "no connection" to the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 in Istanbul and called for his "immediate release. ".

"The citizen in question has no connection with the case," the embassy tweeted, adding that the "guilty of the murder" have already been tried in Saudi Arabia and "are serving" their sentences there.

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