Handball: French European champion Benoît Kounkoud placed in police custody for attempted rape. The player from Kielce, Poland, was arrested around 4:40 a.m.

for an attempted rape in a nightclub in the 8th arrondissement near the Champs-Élysées. “He would have pulled down his pants and tried to rape a young woman before being held down by a security guard,” a police source detailed to the media.