Irish combined martial arts star Conor McGregor taken into police custody in Corsica on suspicion of attempted sexual assault and indecent publicity, was launched on Saturday with out being charged, his lawyer mentioned. McGregor was freed earlier than the restrict of police custody and faces no fees, his authorized consultant on the French island Emmanuelle Ramon advised AFP, calling the grievance in opposition to his shopper as “abusive”.
A spokesman for McGregor despatched an announcement from the USA saying he “vigorously denied any accusation of dangerous behaviour.”
McGregor was taken into custody on Thursday. Earlier on Saturday, the prosecutor’s workplace in Bastia issued an announcement saying that they had obtained a grievance “denouncing acts that could possibly be described as tried sexual assault and sexual exhibition.”
The assertion gave no particulars of the alleged offences dedicated by the 32-year-old McGregor.
McGregor, an icon of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), who goes by the nickname ‘Infamous’, is not any stranger to controversy.
He hit the headlines in 2019 for an assault on an older man in a Dublin bar captured in a viral video.
In 2018 he pled responsible in Brooklyn, New York to disorderly conduct after attacking a bus stuffed with UFC fighters.
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McGregor held the UFC title for featherweights from 2015 to 2016 and lightweights from 2016 to 2018 and misplaced to American legend Floyd Mayweather in August 2017 in a profitable boxing match.
In June, he announced his retirement for the third time, after twice returning to the octagon.
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