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French Foreign Minister

Jean-Yves Le Drian

has asked

Saudi Arabia

to carry out a transparency exercise in the

investigation of an explosion

that occurred last week during the

Dakar Rally

, which seriously injured a pilot of a French team, before "the hypotheses" that it could have been a

possible terrorist attack

.

"We have asked the organizers and Saudi officials to be very transparent, because there are hypotheses that it could have been a terrorist attack," said Le Drian about the detonation that hit a

Sodicars Racing

team support vehicle last Thursday when He was leaving a hotel in the Saudi city of Jeddah and seriously injured his driver,

Philippe Boutron

, in the legs .

Boutron came out of his coma

this past Thursday

with a reserved prognosis, but the family thanked his partner

Mayeul Barbet

for his work , who took him out of the vehicle after the explosion and prevented him from bleeding with

two tourniquets

Saudi security agencies concluded on January 1 that "the initial evidence collection procedures

did not point to any kind of criminal suspicion

," but Boutron's colleagues claim that the detonation was due to a

bomb placed under the car

. This has led the French Prosecutor's Office to open its own anti-terrorist investigation this past Tuesday.

"What can produce an explosion under a vehicle if it is not an explosive device? The bomb was placed

under the pilot's pedal

, which explains that Phillipe was the only one injured," accused the spokeswoman of the team, Marie-France Estenave.

Le Drian has even declared that the French Government was on the verge of requesting the cancellation of the event.

"In these circumstances,

you have to be very cautious

," he added in statements to the BFM TV network.

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