While his companion prosecuted for domestic violence was released on Tuesday, November 30, Olympic champion Margot Pinot, who lodged a complaint against him, confided to having feared for his life in an interview with Le Parisien on Tuesday, November 30.
Margot Pinot assured “to have come close to death “, in the columns of Parisian this Tuesday, November 30. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Olympic champion filed a complaint against her companion and trainer Alain Schmitt, for aggravated voluntary violence. Judged in immediate appearance this Tuesday evening, the 38-year-old ex-judoka was released by the Bobigny court, believing that they do not have sufficient information.
“It was planned for Alain to come to my place, he arrived around 2 a.m., I had to take him to the airport. He was alcoholic. A few minutes after his arrival at my home, he explains to me that, in the end, he will not need me. He takes his things, I’m surprised, I ask him what he’s doing. He answers me that I am stupid, violent words follow “. The Olympic gold medalist then explained that she was lying in bed. “He kept on insulting, I plugged my ears so I couldn’t hear. The blows arrived at that moment …“, she said, moved. At the hearing on Tuesday, it was explained that Alain Schmitt had pulled the 27-year-old young woman by the hair to put her on the ground, before striking her in the face. “I was both stunned and aware of what was going on”, she confided to our colleagues.
Alain Schmitt “used to devalue me”
Margaux Pinot then sought help from her neighbors who immediately called the police. Alain Schmitt was arrested at 2:27 a.m. on Sunday morning, just before his VTC takes the road to the airport. The former judoka was due to travel to Tel Aviv where he is expected to prepare the Israeli women’s team for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. According to the judoka, this is not the first time that her companion has been violent: “He used to devalue me, to say hurtful things to me about my personality or my behavior. In four years, there were two violent episodes, but he had never touched my face. He had broken things in my apartment. There were sometimes big arguments, but he never slapped me“, she assured in the Parisian.
Even today, Margaux Pinot says to herself “shocked”. Bruises on the skull and face, but also fractured nose, the injuries are multiple. “I am still doing medical examinations because I am dizzy. I am lucky, I am strong. I do judo, my body is armed “, she explained. According to our colleagues, when they arrived on the spot, the police noted that the young woman could barely open her eyes, that her hair had been pulled out, and noticed bumps and a swollen thumb.
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