Heba Press – Sports
French police arrested at dawn on Friday a wrestler who was part of the Egyptian delegation participating in the Paris Olympics, suspected of having sexually assaulted a customer in a cafe, according to the prosecutor’s office.
The case concerns Egyptian wrestler “MA”. According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, he was arrested in front of a café in the 13th arrondissement of the capital at around five in the morning, accused of having “put his hand on the buttocks of a customer of the café.
The incident caused a huge outcry, especially in Egypt, where the Egyptian wrestler was heavily criticized because he was in Paris to represent his country in sport and not to harass women if his involvement in the incident was proven.
