Tennis player Francisco Cerúndolo was arrested in Paris after an incident with a taxi driver. Photo Juan Manuel Foglia.
After being eliminated from the Roland Garros tournament, tennis player Francisco Cerúndolo was confined for some time in Paris after being sued by a taxi driver for allegedly assaulting while drunk.
Police went to the hotel where the tennis player was staying to transfer him to the police station, where He was released after testifying.
According to the France newspaper Bleu Paris, the incident was characterized as “intentional violence in a drunken meeting.”The
The media indicates that the taxi driver refused to take the Argentine tennis player and the other four people who accompanied him in his vehicle because the car was capable of carrying up to a total of four passengers.
Cerúndolo insisted, offering to pay more and, in the face of the taxi driver’s unwavering posture, “the tennis player became aggressive”.
A few hours later, through social networks, 45 in the world said that security cameras in the area showed that the taxi driver’s complaint was wrong and he was released after apologizing.
“They apologized to us because they couldn’t believe they arrested us for it,” he said.
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Source: Clarin
