Aurelie SACCHELLI 29/11/2021 21:25
According to L’Equipe y., The former member of the French judo team Alain Schmitt was arrested for having beaten his partner Margaux Pinot, the 2020 European champion of -70kg.
This is a matter in which French judo would have done well … This Monday, the couple formed by former judoka now coach Alain Schmitt (38 years old) and the 2020 European champion of the -70kg Margaux Pinot (27 years old) is in the center of the news for a case of domestic violence. L’Equipe and. report that the native of Forbach was arrested and will be tried on Tuesday afternoon in immediate appearance in the Bobigny court “for acts of voluntary violence committed by the spouse that result in a total incapacity for work of more than 8 days.” Indeed, he allegedly hit his partner in the face during the night from Saturday to Sunday in Blanc-Mesnil, while he was in a drunken state. Transported to the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny for treatment while her partner was being arrested by police, the judokate was prescribed more than eight days of ITT, according to the prosecution.
Schmitt must go to train in Israel
Last week, L’Esprit du judo revealed that Alain Schmitt, a bronze medalist at the 2010 World Cup in the -81kg category, was leaving the Blanc-Mesnil club to go to coach the Israeli women’s team from January next, and until the Olympics. Games in Paris in 2024. It remains to be seen if this legal case in France will not challenge this project. As for Margaux Pinot, she will now have to recover physically and psychologically from this matter, before moving on to the 2022 season., where her goals will necessarily be high, she who has already won three medals in the European Championships (gold in 2020, silver in 2017 and 2021) and a bronze medal in the 2019 World Cups, without forgetting the title of Olympic champion for teams with the Blues this summer in Tokyo.
