After his exit due to the lack of equality .. Egyptian player arrested in Paris for "sexual assault"

The French Public Prosecutor's Office said that the police arrested a Greek-Romanian wrestler from the Egyptian delegation participating in the Paris Olympics early Friday morning on suspicion of sexually assaulting a customer in a bar, confirming information reported by the newspaper Le Parisien.

The case concerns Mohamed El-Sayed (26 years old), who won the bronze medal in the -67 kg weight class three years ago at the Tokyo Olympics and was eliminated in the round of 16 at the Paris Games on Wednesday after losing to Azerbaijani Hasrat Jafarov, according to Agence France-Presse.

The Paris Public Prosecutor's Office reported that the Egyptian wrestler was arrested outside a café in the 13th arrondissement of the capital at around 5 am on charges of "placing his hand on the buttocks of a customer" in the bar.

The Paris Public Prosecutor's Office has assigned the investigation to the third district of the judicial police.

According to the newspaper "Le Parisien", he was arrested and committed his crime "in a state of complete intoxication".

It was not immediately confirmed whether the wrestler was currently in police custody.