French police arrested Egyptian wrestler Mohamed Elsayed early Friday morning in Paris on allegations of groping a woman in a bar. The 26-year-old athlete was detained around 5 am in the city’s 13th district after being accused of “placing a hand on the buttocks” of a female patron, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Elsayed, who won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, had competed in the 67 kg Greco-Roman wrestling category at the Paris Games, where he lost to Azerbaijan’s Hasrat Jafarov, who later secured the bronze medal.
Reports from French newspaper Le Parisien described Elsayed as being “roaring drunk” at the time of the incident. It is unclear whether Elsayed has been released since his arrest. Another Egyptian athlete with the same name won a bronze in epee fencing at the Paris Olympics.
