Junius is the second boxer to be arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a housekeeper in the Olympic village.
Namibian boxer Jonas Junius has been arrested in Rio in connection with an attempted sexual assault of an Olympic Village housekeeper, according to Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo.
Junius, 22, was Namibia’s flag-bearer during the opening ceremony. Police reportedly told Elizondo that Junius allegedly tried to force himself on a housekeeper in the athlete village.
He is being held in a Rio jail.