DAKAR 2022 | France says blast under car could have been a terrorist attack

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The explosion that went off under a French vehicle involved in the Dakar rally in Saudi Arabia last week may have been a terrorist attack, France's foreign minister said on Friday.

Various cars during Stage 3 of the Dakar Rally 2022 between Al Artawiya and Al Qaysumah on January 4 in Al Qaysumah, Saudi Arabia.The explosion that went off under a French vehicle involved in the Dakar car rally in Saudi Arabia last week may have been a terrorist attack, France's foreign minister said on Friday.

“We told the organisers and the Saudi officials to be very transparent on what had happened because there were hypothesis that it was a terrorist attack,” Jean-Yves Le Drian told BFM TV and RMC Radio on Friday.His comments are likely to irk Saudi Arabia. Its public security on January 1 said that “preliminary evidence-gathering procedures found no criminal suspicion”.

Saudi authorities have not responded to Reuters queries about the incident or the French investigation and did not immediately respond to request for comment on Friday.The blast, which seriously injured one of the rally competitors, hit a support vehicle belonging to the French team Sodicars soon after it left its hotel in Jeddah for the race route, according to accounts from the team and race organisers.

Le Drian said French investigators were planning to go to Saudi and that Paris believed the rally should have been cancelled.Le Drian's comments come a month after French officials wrongly arrested a Saudi national in Paris on suspicion of being involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an incident that strained ties just days after President Emmanuel Macron had travelled to the kingdom to cement the Paris-Riyadh relationship.

 

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Preliminary Saudi investigations show that it was an accident, not, as some have claimed, a terrorist plot.

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