According to the French newspaper Le Parisien, he was “dead drunk”.
Paris:
French police arrested an Egyptian wrestler competing in the Olympic Games on Friday morning after allegedly groping a woman in a bar, prosecutors said.
Authorities arrested 26-year-old Mohamed Elsayed around 5 a.m. outside a cafe in the French capital's 13th arrondissement after he was accused of “putting his hand on the buttocks of a female customer,” the Paris prosecutor's office said.
Elsayed, who won bronze at the Tokyo Games, lost to Hasrat Jafarov of Azerbaijan in the 67kg Greco-Roman wrestling on Wednesday. His opponent eventually won bronze.
A compatriot of the same name won a bronze medal in epee fencing at the Olympic Games in Paris.
It was not immediately clear whether the wrestler had since been released.
According to the French newspaper Le Parisien, he was “dead drunk”.
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