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Egyptian Olympic wrestler Mohamed ‘Kesho’ Ibrahim El-Sayed has been arrested by Paris authorities for alleged sexual assault on Friday
The Tokyo bronze medal-winning wrestler was detained early Friday after allegedly groping a woman from behind outside a Paris cafe, according to a statement from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
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“On August 9 around 5am, a man born in March 1998 in Egypt who was a wrestler in the Olympic delegation was arrested in front of the Oz Cafe.”
El-Sayed is a Greco-Roman wrestler who competes at 67 kilograms. He wrestled in one match in Paris, a 9-0 loss to Azerbaijan’s Hasrat Jafarov, on Wednesday.
He is a five-time African champion and a two-time under-23 world champion.
