Khashoggi trial: Consulate worker was told to ‘light up the oven’ – By Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera) / July 3 2020
Technician tells Turkish court he was given the orders after Khashoggi entered the building where he was killed.
A Saudi consulate worker in Istanbul has told a Turkish court he was asked to light an oven less than an hour after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the building where he was killed in 2018.
Zeki Demir, a local technician who worked for the consulate, was giving evidence on Friday, on the first day of the trial in absentia of 20 Saudi officials over Khashoggi’s killing which sparked global outrage.
Demir said he had been called to the consul’s residence after Khashoggi entered the nearby consulate.
“There were five to six people there … They asked me to light up the tandoor [oven]. There was an air of panic,” said Demir.
Khashoggi disappeared after entering the consulate building in October 2018 to get papers for his upcoming marriage.
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