The former high-level sportsman, 29 years old, is currently custody in Mulhouse, according to the public prosecutor.
Le Monde
Yannick Agnel, former double medalist of Olympic swimming, was arrested and placed in custody, Thursday, December 9, as part of an investigation for “rape and sexual aggression on minor 15 years”, learned the France-Press agency (AFP) with the Mulhouse Prosecutor’s Office.
It was “arrested at the end of the morning in Paris and placed in custody in Mulhouse” on rogatory Commission, said the Prosecutor of the Republic, Edwige Roux-Morizot, confirming information from CNEWS. According to The Parisian , Who quotes the prosecutor, the facts go back “at about 2016”, when Yannick Agnel, who today has 29 years, was dismissed at the Olympic Mulhouse Swimming. The complaint, she was filed last summer.
Double Champion on the 200 m Freestyle at the London Olympics in 2012 and the 4×100 m Relay, the swimmer had also been world champion in these two disciplines in 2013. Since his sports retirement in 2016, he Reconverted in Esport and regularly intervenes in various media, including consultant for France Télévisions.