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First reported in January 2022
From the Guardian/England:
"French Dakar rally driver out of coma as team say bomb caused blast
Saudi (house of saud) authorities [have been] accused of trying to cover up cause of explosion which left Philippe Boutron badly injured.
A Sodicars Racing car driven by Philippe Boutron and Mayeul Barbet during stage two of the Dakar rally in Saudi Arabia. A Sodicars Racing car driven by Philippe Boutron and Mayeul Barbet during stage two of the Dakar rally in Saudi Arabia.
Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters Kim Willsher in Paris Thu 6 Jan 2022 10.08 EST
A French rally driver who was seriously injured in an explosion in Jeddah last week has emerged from a coma, while his team have claimed Saudi Arabian authorities are trying to cover up the cause of the incident.
Philippe Boutron sustained serious injuries in the blast outside a hotel near Jeddah’s international airport a week ago. The explosion damaged a support vehicle he was driving for the Sodicars Racing team that was competing in the Dakar rally.
Boutron was flown back to France where he was placed in a medically induced coma from which he emerged on Thursday, according to his son. Saudi police earlier announced there was no evidence that the explosion was criminal, but a rally official insisted a “malicious act” had not been ruled out.
French anti-terrorism investigators have opened a preliminary inquiry into “multiple attempted killings as part of a terrorist group”. Saudi (house of saud) authorities have not commented on the announcement.
A Sodicars press spokesperson told French journalists: “We must tell the truth. It was an attack, and not an accident as the Saudi (house of saud) authorities are trying to maintain.
There was a bomb in the side rail of the vehicle, under the pedals.” Richard Gonzalez, the head of Sodicars Racing, who was at the scene shortly after the blast, said: “At first we thought something had hit the car, but there was a significant impact under the car’s chassis. There was a charge under the side of the car that exploded. I was there, I have the photos, I saw everything.
It was a deliberate act, there’s no doubt about that. “When we saw the car, we thought something wasn’t quite right, but our priority was to get Philippe out and to hospital. He had suffered serious injuries to his legs. He’s a driver and a client but above all he’s been a friend for 10 years. It’s terrible.”
The Dakar rally, usually from Paris to the Senegalese capital, was first held in 1978. It has taken place in Saudi Arabia since 2020 for security reasons.
Last Thursday, 48 hours before the first stage of the race was to begin, the Sodicars vehicle was “brought to a sudden halt by a sudden explosion” as it was leaving the hotel, the rally organisers, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), said. Five Sodicars rally team members in the vehicle escaped but Boutron, 61, who was driving the car, sustained serious injury to his legs.
The marketing executive and president of the French League 2 football team Orléans was due to take part in his ninth Dakar rally. After the blast he underwent several operations in Saudi Arabia before being flown to France for further emergency treatment at the Clamart military hospital near Paris.
Boutron’s son Benoît, a journalist with the French radio station RMC Sport, told Radio Monte Carlo: “He is indeed seriously injured on both legs. We will know more in 10 days but we must remain cautious at this stage.” He denied reports that Boutron’s legs may have to be amputated. “With this kind of accident you have to take things step by step. Already he’s come out of the coma. We’re lucky to be able to visit him daily,” Benoît said. ASO has said investigations are continuing and nothing has been ruled out, “including a malicious act”.
It said it did not wish to comment further. France’s foreign affairs ministry has advised French nationals to exercise “maximum vigilance” in Saudi Arabia (house of saud). A spokesperson said it had not been ruled out that the explosion was a “criminal act”, and added:
“There’s still a terrorist threat in Saudi Arabia.”"
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BajaRacingNews.com First Reported Online During The Proceedings:
Boutron Philippe of Sodicars, Paris France
French minister considering cancelling Dakar after car explosion
France's
Foreign Minister says the country is considering cancelling the 2022
Dakar Rally following a car explosion in the run-up to this year's
event.
Paris, France. January 7, 2022
An assistance car belonging to French team Sodicars Racing, exploded outside the Donatello hotel in Jeddah on December 30, just days before the start of the rally on January 1.
Six passengers were travelling in the car during the explosion and, while five of them were unharmed, driver Philippe Boutron suffered a "very serious leg injury". While the local authorities has since reinforced the security for the rally, the incident continues to worry the entire bivouac and the French authorities.
On Friday, January 7, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian opened up the possibility of cancelling the rally-raid in an interview with BFM TV's morning show. Asked by the presenter if the car explosion in Jeddah was a terrorist attack, the minister replied: "It could be. We made it known very quickly and told the organizers and Saudi officials that we had to be very transparent about what had just happened, because there were hypotheses that it could be a terrorist act.
"There have already been terrorist acts in Saudi Arabia against French interests, it was important to protect our citizens, to warn, to prevent and to ask for the greatest transparency, so the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office was called in and today we have this situation: there could have been a terrorist attack against the Dakar. "We thought that perhaps it was better to suspend this sporting event, but the organizers thought not, but we have to be very prudent. At the very least, they had to reinforce security, which they have done. The question is still on the table."
The French anti-terrorist prosecutor's office announced on January 4 that it was opening an investigation into the events in Jeddah in the days leading up to the start of the 44th edition of Dakar.
The ASO, the organizer of the Dakar Rally, has also announced that both the Saudi and French authorities are investigating what happened. This follows the organization reinforcing the security of its camps (itinerant and generally outside the cities, except in Riyadh and Jeddah), where around 3,500 people stay every day.
Boutron, who serves as the president of French soccer 'Ligue 2' football club, 'US Orleans', was set to take part in his ninth Dakar Rally, after a best finish of 33rd in 2021.
In the last 48 hours, he woke up from the induced coma he had been placed into after being evacuated to the Percy military hospital in Clamart (France) and is still in hospital to recover from injuries to both legs.
The ASO was previously forced to cancel the 2008 Dakar Rally, due to run from Portugal to Senegal, due to security concerns after four tourists were killed in Mauritania in the days leading up to the event.
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France begins terrorism probe into Saudi Arabia blast ahead of Dakar Rally
Paris, France. January 6, 2022
French prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation into an explosion in Saudi Arabia that injured a French driver ahead of the Dakar Rally. The blast hit a support vehicle belonging to the French team Sodicars soon after it left its Jeddah hotel for the race route, injuring driver Philippe Boutron, Reuters reported, citing accounts from the team and race organizers. A spokesperson for France's national anti-terror prosecutor's office confirmed to BajaRacingNews.com that they have opened an investigation into an attempted assassination "related to a terrorist enterprise."
The French Ministry for Foreign Affairs said that the car's French driver was "seriously injured," while the five passengers, also French, were "unharmed." Sodicars said that the driver was repatriated Monday to the Percy Military Hospital in Clamart. "He was immediately taken care of by medical teams, and is in the hands of experts, accompanied by his family. His legs were smashed up by the explosion and he was placed in an artificial coma in order to alleviate his suffering," Sodicars said in a statement released Tuesday. Benoit Boutron, sports journalist and son of the wounded driver, told French radio station RMC that his father is out of the coma. "It's quite serious what happened, he's terribly wounded. The info that I can give you is that he's out of the coma, so that's already a first step, and with this type of accident, you've got to take things step by step. "He's indeed seriously wounded in both legs, and we'll know more in ten days or so. There you go, we've got to stay cautious at this point." Meanwhile, the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs issued a statement warning that "the terrorist threat persists in Saudi Arabia. It is advisable to exercise maximum vigilance in daily life, especially when traveling. "An investigation by the Saudi authorities is underway to determine the cause of the explosion. The hypothesis of a criminal act is not ruled out," the ministry said in a statement on January 1.
Baja Racing News has contacted Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Media for comment. "We hope the investigation follows its course, that it progresses well and that they find the people concerned," Marie-France Estenave, Sodicars spokesperson, told Baja Racing News. "What we want is the truth. Why? Is it against the rally? Is it against France? We don't know all that. That's what we are concerned about. "We keep our fingers crossed that the investigation will be done seriously and in depth," she said, adding she hoped the investigation would make clear whether the incident was a terror attack. The Dakar Rally was held in Europe and Africa from 1979 to 2007 but was moved to South America and then the Middle East in 2020 after the 2008 event was canceled following security concerns. There are traditionally five major vehicle categories in the Dakar Rally: cars, motorbikes, trucks, UTVs and quad bikes. "Something wasn't right" Mayeul Barbet, a colleague of Boutron who was in the car at the time of the incident, told French radio station RMC the team left the hotel as normal to prepare the car. "We drove 500 meters and then 'boom' an explosion. There you go, we don't know what's happening, a big explosion." "After the explosion, I was stuck to the roof of the car, so that's not normal ... in a car accident, we're thrown forward, but here I was thrown to the ceiling in fact.
So I knew in my head that something wasn't right," he said. "There was quite a confused atmosphere in the car, with airbags deploying... so we get quickly out of the car. But before we get out, Philippe said something to me, he said, 'Mayeul, you've got to get me out.' So there, I understand that he's wounded." Barbet, who helped Boutron out of the car, said: "I saw that his legs were really hurt, I initially decided to leave him in the car so as not to move him. "We did a first tourniquet, so that he wouldn't bleed a lot, and in fact, the car started to catch on fire. So then we decide to get him out, to put him in safety and take care of him." Barbet said that when the car's passengers got out of the car, they assumed they had been in an accident and looked for another vehicle, but realized "there's nothing around us. We're alone in the middle of this road."
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