“I have never hit a woman in my life and it will never happen.
"The day after his release, Alain Schmitt denounced a" media lynching "during a press conference.
Accused of violence by his partner, the judokate and Olympic medalist Margaux Pinot, the coach proclaimed his innocence.
On the night of Saturday to Sunday, an argument broke out between the couple.
Margaux Pinot claims that her companion punched her, hit her head on the ground and tried to strangle her during their altercation.
“I thought I was going to give up my life there.
It was my spirit of warrior, of fighter that saved me, ”she painfully recounts.
"It started in all directions, to the right, to the left, we knocked into the walls, into a radiator," says Alain Schimtt, defending himself from having struck the young woman.
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The release of the coach by the court for lack of "proof of guilt" caused an outcry in the world of judo and on social networks where the justice found itself accused of laxity towards domestic violence.
The controversy flared up on Wednesday with the publication on Instagram, by Margaux Pinot herself, of a photo of her swollen face shortly after the facts.
The prosecution appealed for the release.
