France is investigating the explosion at the last Dakar as an attack

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The French Justice has formally opened a judicial investigation for terrorism because it considers that the explosion of an aid vehicle of the last edition of the Dakar rally held in Saudi Arabia, in which a French pilot was injured, was could be an attack.

Judicial sources confirmed to EFE on Tuesday that the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) opened an investigation in November for the crime of attempted terrorist murder.

The events took place on December 30, 2021before the start of the rally, in the city of Jeddah, when there was an explosion in Philippe Boutron’s truck seriously injured the driver’s legs, who was soon evacuated to be hospitalized in France.

The Saudi authorities spoke of an accident, but the French investigators who went to that country and studied the remains of the car considered that there were traces of fireworks, and this is the only possible explanation.

The French secret services consider it to be an improvised device and the PNAT opened a preliminary investigation on January 4, 2022. The procedure started in November means that there are elements supporting the attack hypothesis and it is assumed in practice that the case will pass from the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office to an investigative judge.

Just one day after the incident with Boutron’s truck, the truck of Italian driver Camélia Liparti was the victim of another explosion of criminal origin.

The 2023 edition of the Dakar will start on the 31st on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, which is hosting the rally for the fourth time in a row. It will end in Dammam, on the Persian Gulf, on January 15.

Source: La Verdad

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