• New revelations in the Yannick Agnel case, suspected of raping a minor under the age of 15 in 2016 when he was training in Mulhouse.

  • In telephone conversations and while the ex-swimmer confesses the facts to him, his adviser Sophie Kamoun advises him to deny.

  • "You have nothing to do with your conscience, she was consenting!"

    […] It is she who will have this on her conscience for the rest of her life!

    “, she says in particular.

The huge jolt dates back to a full year.

On December 9, 2021, ex-swimmer Yannick Agnel was taken into police custody on suspicion of rape of a minor under the age of 15.

Facts that date back to 2016, when the hero of the London Olympics (3 medals) was training in Mulhouse, under the orders of Lionel Horter.

A few days later, the public prosecutor of the city of Haut-Rhin declared that the native of Nîmes had "recognized the materiality of the facts".

And since then, what's new?

Not much other than the fact that many people in the swimming community were aware of Agnel's relationship with his victim, L. Horter, the coach's daughter, 13 at the time of the acts.

But new revelations come to relaunch the case this Thursday.

The Team obtained several elements of the procedure, including recordings of conversations between the former pool star and his close adviser, Sophie Kamoun.

The ex-swimmer converted agent is hyper influential in this microcosm and very close to the defendant.

In these wiretaps, the role of "mother-in-law" as Yannick Agnel calls it, appears cloudy.

When he reveals to her that he had had relations prohibited by law, she advises him, for example, to lie.

"I think the best line of defense is to say, 'Another blow from the Horter family.'

You can't help but deny.

There will always be doubt, never proof.

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Another embarrassing passage for the TV consultant, this moment when she questions the version of the victim.

"You have nothing to do with your conscience, she was consenting!"

[…] It is she who will have this on her conscience for the rest of her life!

Accusing someone of rape when she consented, oh!

[…] Are you kidding or what?

"Not to mention the pressures she evokes towards a swimmer who would have poured out with the police or this conversation with her companion where she minimizes the facts a bit: "Yannick, he still screwed up a bit because he peed.

You don't do that with a 14-year-old, 13-and-a-half-year-old kid.

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Our file on the AGNEL affair

The investigation is still ongoing.

Yannick Agnel denies the suspicions of rape and speaks of a consensual relationship.

A different version from that of his victim.

On Wednesday, RTL argued that a second victim of the former swimmer had been heard in Mulhouse.

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