According to the cell investigation of Radio France, several swimmers would have been aware of 2017 of the “intimate relationship” between the former athlete and the daughter of his ex-coach.
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Within the Club du Mulhouse Olympic Swimming (My), who knew? The interrogation planed since the publication, Thursday, January 13, of An article from the cell investigation of Radio France on the Yannick Agnel case. Indicted in December 2021 for “rape and sexual assault on a 15-year-old”, the former swimmer and double Olympic champion at the 2012 London Games is covered by a complaint filed in July 2021 by N. Horter, the daughter of her ex-coach in my, lionel helor.
In front of the investigators, Yannick Agnel, 29, recognized the “materiality of the facts reproached for him”, according to the prosecutor of the Republic of Mulhouse, Edwige Roux-Morizot, but he “did not have the feeling that there was constraint “. “The reproached facts are facts of rape and sexual assault,” detailed in December m Roux-Morizot, explaining that they had taken place in Mulhouse “throughout the year 2016” .
“This also happened in Thailand, in Rio de Janeiro [in Brazil, host city of the 2016] and Tenerife [Canaries], she added, explaining that the presumed victim was 13 years old At the time of the facts and Mr. Agnel, 24 years old. In 2016, the latter was hosted in the Horte family, in the suburbs of Mulhouse. He had joined my two years earlier.
The confidences of an ex-frame of the club
According to the Cell Investigation of Radio France, N. Herrier’s parents reported to the investigators having learned the facts in the summer of 2021: their daughter would have put them in the confidence about fifteen days before the filing of his complaint.
However, a former club framework told Radio France an “episode going back to the end of March-early April 2019”. At the time, a financial litigation opposes my, directed since 2017 by Franck Horny, the brother of Lionel, and Yannick Agnel: the former swimmer claims 60,000 euros for his ultimate year of contract at the club. A letter of conciliation would have been shipped by the club to Yannick Agnel.
“Franck Horter tells me that Yannick would be wise to accept this conciliation, tells this old setting, because they have a file on him and his niece, N.”, Related this former framework of my to Radio France. “We confirm that parents did not know [the facts] in 2021,” said the world Isabelle Rollet and Thomas Wetterer, the presumed victim’s lawyers, N. Horter, today, today. years.
While the MY is targeted by several judicial procedures in Mulhouse and has been sentenced by justice to pay the sum of 60 000 euros to Mr AGNEL – an appeal trial must be held in March – NA lawyers . Holl say that “there is, to our knowledge, and absolutely certain, no link” between the complaint filed by their client and the financial litigation between the Horny clan and the ex-swimmer. “Our client is a victim and is certainly not the armed arm of his parents”, add M es Rollet and Wetterer.
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