A poll taken amid the backlash against the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi showed on Wednesday that a majority of Germans are against conducting business with Saudi Arabia.
Sixty-five per cent of respondents in a survey carried out for newspaper Die Welt said they believed German companies shouldn't do business with Saudi Arabia.
Around one fifth of the slightly more than 5,000 respondents said they saw no issue with German-Saudi business transactions, by contrast.
Khashoggi, a vocal critic of the kingdom's crown prince, disappeared after a visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
Riyadh denied having any knowledge of what had happened to the 59-year-old journalist until Saturday, when it said that Khashoggi died in the consulate during a "fistfight."
