A suspected member of the team that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris on Tuesday, judicial and airport sources said.

Khalid Alotaibi, 33, was reportedly detained by border police on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Turkey just before taking a flight to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from Charles de Gaulle airport. He is due to appear before prosecutors on Wednesday.

Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi who lived in self-exile in the U.S. and wrote for The Washington Post, was strangled by a hit squad in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and his body dismembered.

A Turkish court in 2020 began to try in absentia 20 suspects over the murder of Khashoggi, including two former aides to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Turkish prosecutors then indicted six more Saudi suspects over the killing later that year, but no Saudi official has ever faced justice in person in Turkey over the killing.

In September 2020, a Saudi court overturned five death sentences issued after a closed-door trial in Saudi Arabia, sentencing them to 20 years in prison instead.

Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 to file paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancee.

It was there, according to U.S. and Turkish officials, that the Saudi hit squad killed him. His body has never been retrieved.