Former cyclist Jan Ullrich, the only German winner of the 1997 Tour de France, was arrested in Palma de Mallorca, accused of having entered the house of his neighbor and having threatened him, announced the Spanish police.
The arrest of Ullrich, 44, was carried out for “intrusion by force and threats” towards his neighbor in Palma de Mallorca, a police spokesman told AFP, without providing further details on this fact.
According to the press, the aforementioned neighbor would be the German actor and director Til Schweiger, information not confirmed by the police.
Ullrich was due to appear before a judge this Saturday.
The former runner, also a winner of the Tour of Spain in 1999 and an Olympic champion in Sydney 2000, saw the end of his career marred by his participation in the Puerto organized doping case.
In May 2006, his name appeared in this case, a blood doping network allegedly organized around the Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.
The German cyclist was excluded from the Tour de France the day before the start, and announced his retirement in February 2007.
A year later, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) sanctioned him for doping and all the results obtained after May 2005 were annulled.
In 2013, after years of denial, he finally admitted that he had used doping products. AFP