EA physical confrontation between the French judo Olympic champion Margaux Pinot and her trainer preoccupies the judiciary. After the 27-year-old claimed to have been beaten up by Alain Schmitt, the alleged perpetrator was acquitted in a court of law. The prosecutor, who had requested a one-year suspended sentence, appealed. Schmitt is Pinot’s partner.
“Anyone who knows me knows very well that I cannot hit a woman. I’ve never hit a woman in my life and it will never happen, ”Schmitt said at a press conference. He and Pinot, who won gold in the mixed team event in Tokyo, had “had a special relationship for years, to be honest”.
Schmitt was arrested by the police on Sunday night in Le Blanc-Mesnil for domestic violence. A neighbor, with whom Pinot found refuge, had previously made an emergency call. Pinot later posted a photo on Instagram showing her battered face. “I was attacked in my apartment by my partner and trainer,” wrote the athlete on Wednesday. He hit her head “several times on the ground” and “choked” her. Your nose is broken. Pinot: “Judo probably saved me.”
Schmitt, who clearly had a black eye, puts things differently. “She started screaming really loud, she went for me, grabbed my collar. Then I backed away and she threw me against the door post, I hit my head. “During the fight, you hit walls” right and left, against a radiator, “said Schmitt, bronze medalist at the 2013 World Cup (class up to 81st year) Kilogram). The dispute is said to have been triggered by Schmitt’s announcement to Pinot that he wanted to leave France and train the Israeli women’s national team.
Alain Schmitt (left) will also speak at a press conference on Thursday.
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“He’s lying,” said Pinot that evening in response to the statements. Schmitt attacked her in a drunken state for no reason when she was lying in bed. “He sat on me, he started hitting me, right, left. I said to him ‘Alain, stop, stop’ “, so Pinot:” I said to myself: ‘You have to go out, otherwise you will be dead.’ “
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