The facts traced back to 2016, when the twice gold at the games lived at the coach’s house. The defense: “consensual relationships”
The French Biolimpionico Yannick Agnel will be tried by the Court of the Upper Rhine, on charges of rape and sexual violence against a minor, the thirteen -year -old daughter of the coach, who trained in Mulhouse with him between 2014 and 2016. He was staying at the home of her parents in 2016, when he was 24 years old and now at 32 years old he insists on the fact that the relationship was consensual and affectionate. AGNEL remains under judicial surveillance. The investigation follows the complaint of Nome Horter, daughter of the former swimmer coach, Lionel Horter. According to public ministries, the events in question took place between 31 December 2015 and 31 August 2016 in various locations, including Mulhouse, Thailand and the island of Tenerife. The investigation led to the incrimination of the swimmer in December 2021. Agnel has always denied having had any control over the adolescent. The public prosecutor of the time, Edwige Roux-Morizot, considered that “the facts constitute rape and sexual violence due to the age difference, because the judicial system believes that there is a real moral constraint”. Last July, the swimmer, who had retired in 2016, went to the office of the Mulhouse investigating judge for a comparison he had requested with his accuser, now twenty years old. He risks 15 to 20 years.
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Mulhouse’s prosecutor Nicolas Heitz accused Agnel of sexual violence over a minimum of 15 years, but on this other case the swimmer’s position was stored. Thomas Wetterer, Naomé Horter’s lawyer, now 23 years old, expressed the relief of her and her parents for the news of the incrimination. “Mulhouse’s investigating judge reiterates something that should be natural according to common sense, i.e. a 23 -year -old man cannot have sex with a 13 -year -old girl”. Céline Lasek, one of the swimmer’s lawyers, said that he would have appealed against this referral to the criminal court, an organ composed entirely by toga judges, in charge of judging crimes punishable with penalties up to 20 years.