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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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