Phillippe boutron, seriously injured in the explosion of his vehicle in Jeddah before the start of Dakar 2022 on December 30, “came out of a coma,” his son said Thursday in an interview with RMC.
“He is seriously injured, he has already come out of the coma”said Benoît Boutron. “The luck we have, with my relatives, is that we can go to visit him daily. He is seriously injured in both legs and we will know more in ten days. We could see him, we can exchange a few words. He is limited,” he said. “You need time to recover but things are progressing little by little“, He said Benoît Boutron.
On Tuesday in Paris, the National Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had opened a preliminary investigation for “attempted murder in connection with a terrorist company.” The investigations refer to the explosion that occurred on December 30 in Jeddah (west center), which affected a vehicle occupied by a crew of five Frenchmen and seriously injured the driver, Philippe Boutron, 61, who was repatriated after having been operated on. in Saudi Arabia.
He was treated at the Percy military hospital in Clamart, near Paris, and was later placed in an artificial coma to relieve his pain. Saudi authorities on Saturday ruled out a criminal act to explain what they called an “accident.”
For its part, the French Foreign Ministry called its compatriots to “maximum vigilance”, adding on the contrary that “the hypothesis of a criminal act is not ruled out” and recalling that “the terrorist threat persists in Saudi Arabia.”
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