During the night, the doctor and the masseur arrested in recent days on the orders of the Marseille prosecutor's office as part of an investigation into a suspected use of doping in the Tour de France within the Arkea-Samsic, team of the Colombian champion Nairo were released. Quintana.
According to what was announced by Dominique Laurens, public prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille, "the investigation is still ongoing", and developments are not excluded.
The two members of Arkéa-Samsic's medical team, brought to the Tour by Quintana, had been in custody since Monday, accused of "administering and prescribing to an athlete, without medical justification, substance or method prohibited in the of a sporting event ".
Several of the team's riders were also "heard without suspicion," Ms. Laurens specified last night.
These riders, whose identity has not been confirmed by the Marseille public prosecutor's office, are suspected of having withheld "without medical justification" a "prohibited substance or method" that may have served as doping, as part of the Tour. According to reports reported by various French media, the investigation carried out on 16 September in Méribel, targeted several Arkéa-Samsic runners, including Dayer Quintana, brother of Nairo