France released on Wednesday the Saudi national arrested at a Paris airport over suspected links to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi after officials concluded it was a case of mistaken identity.
The Saudi Embassy in Paris had said late on Tuesday the arrested person "has nothing to do with the case in question."
Prosecutors said checks had shown that a warrant issued by Turkey, which had triggered the arrest when the man's passport was scanned during border checks, did not apply to the man arrested at the airport.
"Extensive checks on the identity of this person showed that the warrant did not apply to him... he was released," a statement from the prosecutor's office said.
The Saudi man was returning to the Kingdom after his release on Wednesday, the Saudi embassy said.
Embassy officials had visited the man in the place of his detention to check on his condition, the embassy said in its statement.
