Alain Schmitt and Margaux Pinot had another court date on Friday.
The Paris Court of Appeal judges the judo coach for the acts of domestic violence for which he was released on November 30, in immediate appearance, by the criminal court of Bobigny, in Seine-Saint-Denis. Our reporter was present at the Paris Court of Appeal.
Judgment has been reserved until June 10. A one-year suspended prison sentence was requested by the prosecution against Alain Schmitt.
On November 30, at the end of a hearing which ended late at night, the Bobigny criminal court released the judo coach of Moselle origin Alain Schmitt, considering that it had “not enough evidence” to enter the process of conviction for the acts of violence on his companion, the Olympic champion Margaux Pinot, for which he was tried in immediate appearance.
The next day the prosecutor’s office, which had requested a one-year probationary sentence including several obligations such as the prohibition to come into contact with the victim or the obligation to follow a training course to raise awareness of domestic violence, had appealed. For the prosecutor at the hearing, it was “obvious” that Margaux Pinot had “suffered direct blows to the face”.
