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The general director of Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), Yann Le Moen, owner of the Dakar Rally, warned Saturday in the Chilean port of Valparaiso that the company will make no further comment on the death of competition French rider Pascal Terry, although he admitted mistakes in the search string.

"As an investigation is underway, the ASO will make no comment," said Le Moen in a press conference in Valparaiso (110 km west of Santiago), which complies with the rest day of the Dakar Rally to Argentina after 2009 seven stages disputed.

"Clearly, there was an error. We are investigating what could happen and now bringing all the elements," added the head of ASO after his arrival at the port after Chilean personally express his condolences to the family of Terry in Buenos Aires.

Argentine Judge Manuel Alvarez, in charge of Court No. 1 of General Acha in the province of La Pampa (center-south), where he died Terry, said to AFP Friday that Terry died of a heart attack caused by a pulmonary edema , which had its origins in a pre-existing heart disease.

Alvarez said that the coroner had found an enlargement of the heart muscle and found that the conditions in which the pilot was up, speed, effort and the very high temperatures contributed to fatal outcome.

The judge believed that the death of the pilot to open two possibilities: either there was negligence in the care of a competitor in emergency and may have committed a crime, fault, or there was a disastrous Rally not scheduled a series of events and could lead to abandonment of the figure of the person. "

Disappeared during the second stage between the Argentine cities of Santa Rosa de Puerto Madryn and the Pampa (south), Terry, aged 49, was found dead in the early hours of last Wednesday at 02H10 local (05H10 GMT).

In a statement issued the same day, the ASO said that Terry had no more signs of life after last Sunday afternoon.

The ASO on Monday ordered the search of the competitor, which made it difficult for the land and vegetation, found his body until 56 hours after his disappearance.