PARIS: French police arrested Egyptian wrestler Mohamed Elsayed early Friday morning, following allegations that he groped a woman in a bar. The 26-year-old wrestler was detained in front of a café in Paris’s 13th district around 5 a.m. after being accused of “placing a hand on the buttocks of a female patron,” according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Elsayed, who secured a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, was eliminated by Azerbaijan’s Hasrat Jafarov in the 67 kg Greco-Roman wrestling category in Paris Olympics on Wednesday. Jafarov later won the bronze medal.
It is unclear whether Elsayed has been released since his arrest.
