PARIS (Reuters) – Traces of explosives were found on the car of Philippe Boutron, who was seriously injured in the explosion of his assistance vehicle before the start of the 2022 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, a source close to Reuters told Reuters on Friday. folder.
This information, first revealed by RTL, confirms the trail of the attack which had motivated, at the beginning of January, the opening by the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) of a preliminary investigation of the chief of attempted assassinations in relation to a terrorist enterprise.
Philippe Boutron, 61, was seriously injured in the legs by the explosion that occurred under the assistance vehicle on December 30, shortly before the start of the car race.
The Saudi authorities had initially ruled out the criminal trail () and only recently authorized French investigators from the DGSI to go to Riyadh.
(Tangi Salaün, edited by Nicolas Delame)
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