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Margaux Pinot: Alain Schmitt evokes a “complicated relationship”

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Alain Schmitt is accused of domestic violence

SPOUSAL VIOLENCE – “I’m at my worst. I can’t take any more of these slanders. ” After the publication by his partner Margaux Pinot of a photo of her with a swollen face, the judoka Alain Schmitt, accused of domestic violence but relaxed, defended himself in the newspaper The team Wednesday, December 1.

“Our relationship was very complicated and there were only two solutions, as I said during the hearing: that she leave the club or that I leave,” he explains on a daily basis. Ultimately, it is he who will leave. He had been appointed coach of Israel’s judo team and was due to fly only hours after the incident. The Israel Judo Federation announced that it had suspended all contact with him after the court ruling.

According to Alain Schmitt, it is this departure thousands of kilometers that would have triggered the dispute overnight from Saturday to Sunday. “It was a shock to her and she couldn’t control herself again. She doesn’t know how to control her emotions. She is insulted all the time. This is why she often has conflicts, ”he explains.

Death threats

In response to the photo posted by his partner, which sparked a wave of support on social media from sports, political and anonymous figures, the 38-year-old also provided a photo of his bruised face in The team where he presents himself with a coquard.

During the hearing which took place Tuesday, he denied having dealt the slightest blow to his companion, rather describing a fight between lovers as a “tornado”, based on judo and triggered by Margaux Pinot, also a judoka. The latter described her “fear” of the punches that were raining down on her, refuting the judo fight.

Faced with these contradictory versions and the lack of evidence, the Bobigny court released Alain Schmitt. The prosecution appealed. Since then, the judoka ensures in the daily sports newspaper to receive “messages of intimidation, death threats: ‘Go die in hell big son of a bitch’, ‘die motherfucker’, ‘you’re going to pay him asshole’.”

“Now, there is a social media trial following the legal process, it’s unbearable, he denounces. Social media is not justice. Justice is an institution and that must be respected. ”

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