(ANSA) - AJACCIO, 12 SEPTEMBER - Conor McGregor, Irish star of MMA - the fighting discipline that mixes different martial arts, the same practiced by those arrested for the fatal beating of Willy Monteiro Duarte - was arrested and released after 48 hours in Corsica, with the suspicion of attempted sexual violence.
AFP learned this from the prosecutor's office in Bastia.
The athlete's spokesperson said McGregor "energetically denies any allegations" against him.
The lawyer, Emmanuelle Ramon, told AFP that her client "was released before the legal term of pre-trial detention and without any judicial review" after a complaint filed against him.
"Following a complaint filed on 10 September in which they denounced facts that could be qualified as sexual assault and sexual exhibition, Mr. Conor Anthony Mac Gregor was the subject of a hearing by the gendarmerie services, under the custody regime of the police" , writes the accusation in a statement sent to the AFP.
Flagship of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, MMA's premier fight organizer, ConorMcGregor, 32, is one of the sport's most popular and highest-paid fighters that allows you to kick, punch, knee and elbow, as well as punch. earth extrangolamenti within a closed enclosure, the octagon.
McGregor held the UFC featherweight title from 2015 to 2016 and elected from 2016 to 2018. In June 2020 he announced his retirement for the third time.
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