Metzelder steps down from club amid child pornography investigation - club


FILE PHOTO: Schalke 04's player Christoph Metzelder speaks during a news conference in Gelsenkirchen April 25, 2011. REUTERS/Alex Domanski

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former Germany defender Christoph Metzelder has stepped down as president from his boyhood club TuS Haltern am See after he was questioned by police as part of an investigation into distribution of child pornography, the club said in a statement.

Computer equipment was confiscated during two searches, Hamburg's state prosecutor's office said.

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