It will finally be Bulgaria. Accused at the end of November of domestic violence by his companion Margaux Pinot, the judoka Alain Schmitt had been acquitted by the Bobigny Criminal Court. This case, which had caused a stir, had cost him his contract with the Israeli national team, which had not followed up, when he should have flown to Jerusalem the day after the dispute, on the night of 27 to November 28.
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After several months of waiting, it is finally in Bulgaria that the rest of Alain Schmitt’s career will be written. At 38, he has reached an agreement with the Bulgarian federation to train the two selections, male and female, announced his lawyer at the Parisian : “While Madame Margaux Pinot tried to pass herself off as a victim and spread herself in the press trying to discredit the court decision which had released my client Alain Schmitt, he has just signed this [lundi] morning a contract with Bulgaria, which appoints him coach of the national judo team”.
