French police arrested an Egyptian wrestler early Friday, who was participating in the Olympics, after he allegedly groped a woman in a bar, according to prosecutors.
Mohamed Elsayed, 26, was detained around 5 am in front of a café in the 13th district of Paris. He was accused of “placing a hand on the buttocks of a female patron,” as stated by the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Elsayed, a bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, was defeated by Azerbaijan’s Hasrat Jafarov in the 67 kg Greco-Roman wrestling event on Wednesday. Jafarov later secured the bronze medal.
Another Egyptian athlete with the same name won a bronze medal in epee fencing at the Paris Olympics.
It is currently unclear whether the wrestler has been released.
