MOSCOW, Jan 7 French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said, that the explosion that occurred before the start of the Dakar rally-raid could have been a terrorist attack. On Thursday, December 30, 61-year-old racer Philippe Boutron was injured in a Sodicars car explosion and required surgery. On Tuesday, French prosecutors said they had opened a terrorism criminal case. Investigators from France are planning to travel to Saudi Arabia. «We told the organizers and Saudi Arabian officials to be extremely transparent about what happened. It could have been a terrorist act,» Le Drian Reuters quotes, citing RMC Radio. France believes that the start of the rally-marathon should have been canceled. Director of Dakar David Caster ruled out the termination of the competition due to suspicions of a terrorist attack. «This issue is not being raised at the moment,» he told Franceinfo radio.
