The double Olympic champion of London, in 2012, was arrested Thursday at the end of the morning in Paris “for acts of rape and sexual assault on a minor of 15 years”, specified Thursday to franceinfo the prosecutor of Mulhouse, Edwige Roux-Morizot .
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Former swimmer Yannick Agnel, two-time Olympic champion at the London Olympics in 2012, has been taken into custody “for acts of rape and sexual assault on a minor of 15 years”, announcement, Thursday, December 9, the prosecutor of Mulhouse, Edwige Roux-Morizot, to franceinfo.
The former athlete, consultant for France Télévisions since 2019 and also e-sport consultant for Radio France, was “arrested at the end of the morning in Paris and placed in police custody in Mulhouse”, where the facts would have taken place, Edwige Roux-Morizot told AFP, confirming information from CNews. The prosecutor added that the facts went up “about 2016”. At that time, Yannick Agnel was licensed at the Mulhouse Olympic Swimming club. He ended his sports career in August 2016, at only 24 years old, after a bitter failure at the Rio Olympics.