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Schmitt reveals message from Riner

Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Saturday 04 December 2021 at 09:07

While Alain Schmitt, accused of domestic violence by Margaux Pinot, was released, he maintains not to have hit the Olympic judo champion, and even unveiled a message that would have sent him Teddy Riner, who had taken a stand in favor of the young lady.

The war of words continues between Margaux Pinot (27) and Alain Schmitt (38), whom she accuses of domestic violence but who was released for lack of evidence by the Bobigny Criminal Court. The prosecution has since appealed against this decision which agitates all French judo. The two spoke to the press to give their version of the facts, two opposing versions. Because the Olympic team champion in Tokyo maintains that her trainer and companion beat her, strangled her, also hitting her head on the ground several times, while the one who was to go to train in Israel, before the Federation suspended all contact with him since these accusations maintains that he did not hit her.

On Friday, Schmitt repeated his version on BFMTV, now that the two, who bear the scars of the night of November 27, have “hung on”, and ensure that there is “something wrong” in the accusations of the 2020 European champion of -70kg. “According to her, I’m on top of her and I punch her five times and she doesn’t use her arms. His version … it’s amazing. I didn’t hit a punch, not a ball, not a kick. “Regretting that his image is” in a sorry state “and to have been” let down “by the world of judo, he also read a message from Teddy Riner, who, like Clarisse Agbégnénou, Automne Pavia, Amandine Buchard or even the president of the French Judo Federation Stéphane Nomis, took up the cause for Margaux Pinot.

Riner would have written to him: “I do not know who is right”

“We are all deeply touched by what our teammate Margaux Pinot has just suffered and we give her all our support. What must be done so that the victims are heard? That the attackers are found guilty?”, Riner wrote on Twitter. According to Schmitt, the three-time Olympic champion would have a more nuanced position today. “This Thursday, Teddy Riner sent me a message. I’m going to read part of it: “I don’t know who is right, who did what. I don’t want to get into your relationship. “ Why not take this position straight away and let the pros do their job? “

In addition, his lawyer denounced the words of the Minister in charge of Sports Roxana Maracineanu and those of Elisabeth Moreno, Minister Delegate in charge of Equality between women and men, who had written on Twitter, after the announcement of the acquittal: “The prosecutor appealed against the decision. Let us trust the justice system . In the face of violence against women, we must not let anything go. “

For Me Caroline Wassermann, interviewed by France Info, “this is an attack on the presumption of innocence” : “This does not deceive anyone and it is quite devious: (Roxana Maracineanu) announces that she cannot express herself but she does express herself all the same. Coming to assert that Margaux Pinot is” clearly a victim “, it is a direct criticism of a court decision There are three magistrates who have studied the case carefully, which is not the case with the Minister of Sports who did not have (and this is normal) knowledge of the elements of this affair and which reacts only with regard to emotions. This seems to me all the more serious as Mrs Elisabeth Moreno, herself Minister, two days earlier, had also by a totally unacceptable tweet called into question this Justice decision.”

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