PARIS: French police early Friday arrested an Egyptian wrestler taking part in the Olympics over allegedly groping a woman in a bar, prosecutors said.
Authorities detained Mohamed Elsayed, 26, in front of a cafe in the French capital’s 13th district at around 5 am after he was accused of “placing a hand on the buttocks of a woman patron,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
Elsayed, who won bronze at the Tokyo Games, lost to Azerbaijan’s Hasrat Jafarov in the 67 kg Greco-Roman wrestling on Wednesday. His opponent went on to win the bronze medal.