Ex-Olympic champion swimmer Yannick Agnel positioned beneath investigation in France after getting arrested for rape

French swimmer Yannick Agnel, who gained two gold medals on the 2012 Olympics, was positioned beneath investigation on Saturday on suspicion of “rape and sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor”, the Mulhouse prosecutor’s workplace informed AFP.

The 29-year-old was additionally positioned beneath judicial supervision, stated town’s public prosecutor, Edwige Roux-Morizot. Agnel had been arrested on Thursday in Paris and brought into police custody in Mulhouse in jap France.The prosecutor stated a criticism had been filed for incidents “around 2016” together with the “rape and sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor”.According to French media, “the investigation would follow a complaint from a swimmer who trained with Agnel in Mulhouse between 2014 and 2016.Angel, at the time a reigning Olympic champion, joined the Mulhouse swimming club (MON) in 2014 and trained there for two years.”Several swimmers or former swimmers have been interviewed in current weeks,” sports daily L’Equipe reported.MON, where current French Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, an Olympic backstroke silver medallist in 2000, once trained, is for its part being investigated for “tried fraud” for occasions courting again to 2016.The membership has been in dispute with a number of swimmers, together with Agnel who went to court docket to gather 60,000 euros owed to him by the membership for the final 12 months of his contract, French tv reported.Agnel got here to worldwide prominence on the 2010 European championships when he gained gold within the 400-metre freestyle setting a brand new French and championships document.Two years later he starred on the London Olympics when he took gold within the 200m freestyle and the 4x100m freestyle in addition to silver within the 4x200m freestyle.He collected gold in the identical two occasions within the 2013 world championships.Agnel went to Rio in 2016 to defend his 200m freestyle title however didn’t get by way of the heats, asserting his retirement from swimming quickly after.