“I am happy that the magistrates showed common sense (…) I will perhaps be able to live normally”, reacted Alain Schmitt, smiling but very moved, at the end of the hearing. This Friday, the judo coach was again released on Friday by the Paris Court of Appeal for acts of domestic violence against his former judoka companion, Olympic champion Margaux Pinot.
The two athletes have been tearing each other apart for six months in court and through the media over a violent altercation that occurred in November 2021 at Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis), for which the technician had already been released at the end of year in correctional at Bobigny.
“It was a lot of waiting, a lot of doubts, a lot of words to take, things that I had a lot of trouble taking in and today I am relieved”estimated Alain Schmitt
