Arrested on September 18 at his home in Seine-et-Marne, the French athlete will be judged on February 24.
French marathon record holder Morhad Amdouni will be tried for domestic violence in three months in Seine-et-Marne, theAFP Monday with the Meaux prosecutor, confirming information from Parisian.
He is “under judicial supervision pending a hearing scheduled for February 24” for “domestic violence committed between September 2023 and September 2024”specified to the‘AFP the public prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier, at the Meaux judicial court. “Another preliminary investigation concerning him is still underway”added the magistrate.
This French athlete, specialist in the 10,000 meters, was arrested on September 18 at his home in Seine-et-Marne and placed in police custody, according to a police source.
On February 18, Morhad Amdouni broke the French marathon record in Seville, Spain, by completing the 42.195 kilometers in 2 h 03 min 47 sec. The athlete, returning from an internship in Kenya, had shattered his own French record to finish second behind the Ethiopian Deresa Gelata and come very close to the European record in the discipline.
However, Morhad Amdouni withdrew from the men's marathon at the Paris Olympics “following an injury to the right calf” in training.”
