Agnel case: light judicial review for the ex-swimmer, authorized to see his agent Sophie Kamoun again

“Reunion after 414 days without being able to see or speak to each other… Thank you life.

On her Facebook page, Sophie Kamoun poses, looking moved and delighted, with Yannick Agnel, also all smiles.

A photo posted Wednesday afternoon on the social network by the agent, banned since December 2021 and the indictment of the former swimmer for rape and sexual assault on a minor to get in touch with his protege, placed under judicial control .

Contacted, the prosecution of Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) in charge of the file confirms to Parisian-Today in France this Wednesday evening that the constraints surrounding the double Olympic champion have been reduced.

The latter can therefore, as evidenced by this snapshot, see the former swimmer again, today consultant and agent of several figures of French swimming.

The triple Olympic medalist also once again has the right to leave Paris and the inner suburbs.

Yannick Agnel is still forbidden to come into contact with his alleged victim Naome, the daughter of his former coach in Alsace Lionel Horter, as well as with his family.

He also still cannot go to Mulhouse, except in the context of a judicial summons.

Telephone tapping between him and his agent

Justice had banned Yannick Agnel from getting in touch with his agent a few days after wiretapping, revealed in December 2022 by L'Équipe, between the 2013 double world champion and Sophie Kamoun, whom he nicknamed "mother-in-law ".

On the phone, the beIN Sports and RMC consultant had recommended that he "deny" the accusations of the young woman who had just filed a complaint.

She had also assured the mother of Yannick Agnel to "lose everything" to another of her swimmers, Fantine Lesaffre, if the latter had charged the double Olympic champion before the investigators.

"Contrary to what is put forward in this article (from L'Équipe), I was never at the origin of the implementation of any defense strategy on behalf of Yannick with whom I did not no more contact, no more than with his lawyers, since his arrest on December 9, 2021, ”she defended herself in a press release.

Yannick Agnel recognized "the materiality of the facts", but not a possible constraint, had explained, during the indictment, the prosecutor of the Republic of Mulhouse, Edwige Roux-Morizot.

The alleged facts date back to 2016, when the swimmer was 24 and Naome Horter 13. A second potential victim has since been heard by investigators.