France has accused Saudi Arabia of seeking to cover up a terrorist attack that left a French competitor of the Dakar Rally in a coma. A blast outside a hotel in Jeddah last month, seriously injured French driver Philippe Boutron, who was evacuated to a hospital in France and placed into a medically induced coma. “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,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said to BFM TV and RMC Radio. A “preliminary evidence-gathering” procedure by Saudi Arab…

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