French marathon record holder Morhad Amdouni will be tried for domestic violence

The French marathon runner will be tried next February for acts of domestic violence occurring between September 2023 and September 2024.

The French marathon record holder, Morhad Amdouni, will be tried for domestic violence in three months in Seine-et-Marne, AFP learned from the Meaux prosecutor on Monday, November 4, confirming information from the Parisian.

He is “under judicial supervision pending a hearing scheduled for February 24” for “domestic violence committed between September 2023 and September 2024”the public prosecutor at the Meaux judicial court, Jean-Baptiste Bladier, told AFP.

“Another preliminary investigation concerning him is still underway”added the magistrate. The French athlete, a 10,000 meter specialist, 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 hours, 3 minutes and 47 seconds. 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. The French marathon runner then withdrew from the men's marathon at the Paris Olympics “following an injury to his right calf which occurred during training”.