Laure Manaudou ‘arrested for stealing €200 of souvenirs from Disneyland’

• Former Olympic champion taken to local police station
• Manaudou denied allegations on social media

Laure Manaudou at the 2007 World Aquatics Championship in Melbourne. She retired from the pool in 2013. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

Guardian sport

Friday 12 December 2014 05.49 EST

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The former world and Olympic swimming champion Laure Manaudou has been accused of attempting to steal €200 (£160) of souvenirs from a gift shop at Disneyland Paris, according to reports in France.
Manaudou, who retired from the pool in 2013 and is the older sister of the men’s 50-metre freestyle winner at the London 2012 Olympics, Florent, was with a friend and her daughter at the theme park on the outskirts of Paris when she was arrested attempting to leave the store.
BFM TV reported that she was taken to a local police station and asked to explain the presence in her bag of gifts worth around €200, for which she did not have a receipt. Her friend was also found with goods worth around €300 on her person.
Manaudou was issued with a warning after Disneyland decided not to press charges. She later took to Twitter and Facebook to deny the allegations before removing the posts.
“The press are simply liars! I am disgusted, I cannot even spend time with my daughter without anyone bothering me, and they invent things about me,” she wrote.