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The former French swimming Olympian, Yannick Agnel, under investigation since Saturday for rape and violence against a minor, “confessed the disputed facts”, announced the prosecutor of the Republic of Mulhouse, in eastern France, Edwige Roux-Morizot .
Agnel said he did not have “the feeling that there was coercion”, according to the prosecutor, but “if the facts are configured as rape or sexual violence”, it is because there is an important age difference between the victim, Naome Horter, daughter of his then coach, Lionel Horter, who was 13 at the time in 2016, and the swimmer, who was 24.