五輪金の柔道家がＤＶ被害か　疑惑のコーチは正当防衛主張　仏

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】柔道女子フランス代表で五輪金メダリストのマルゴー・ピノ（２７）が、私生活のパートナーで元コーチのアラン・シュミット氏からドメスティックバイオレンス（ＤＶ）を受けたと訴えた。疑惑に対して同氏は３日、相手が始めたけんかで正当防衛をしたにすぎないと主張した。（写真は仏パリで開かれた記者会見で、元コーチからのＤＶ被害を訴えた柔道女子同国代表のマルゴー・ピノ）
　東京五輪の混合団体で母国の優勝に貢献したピノによれば、先月２７日夜に自宅のベッドで酒に酔ったシュミット氏から暴力を受けたという。２日に行われた記者会見では、あざだらけの顔で「彼は私にまたがり、顔の左右を殴り始めた」と話した。
　さらに「私はパンチを避けずに、『やめてアラン、やめて』と言って、彼を説得しようとした」と当時の状況を振り返り、「とにかく彼から逃げなければ、ここで死んでしまうと思った」と語った。
　シュミット氏は警察に逮捕されたものの、裁判所の審問でＤＶ容疑を裏付ける証拠が不十分と判断され、１日午前に釈放された。３日に行われた仏ニュース専門局ＢＦＭＴＶのインタビューでは、右側に大きなあざができた顔で「正当防衛だったというのが自分の感覚だ」と語った。
　「これまでの人生で、女性を殴ったことは一度もない。プライベートの生活では、自分は穏やかな人物だ」
　裁判所の決定には検察側が即時に不服を申し立てており、来年に迫った仏大統領選挙の候補者ら各方面から批判の声が上がっている。
　しかし、シュミット氏は先に暴力を振るったのはピノだとし、自身が女子代表コーチとして雇われたイスラエルに行くことについて、腹を立てていたと主張した。ピノはシュミット氏の言い分について「彼はうそをついている」と報道陣に反論している。
　また今回の疑惑を受け、イスラエル柔道連盟（ＩＪＦ）はシュミット氏との契約を破棄した。
　ピノは五輪金メダルの他に欧州選手権で優勝２回、世界選手権でも銅メダルに輝いた実績を持つ。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/12/06-13:32）

French judo coach Alain Schmitt, accused by Olympic judo champion Margaux Pinot of domestic violence, claimed on Friday that he had merely defended himself in a fight that he said she started.
Pinot, who won mixed team gold at the Tokyo Olympics, has accused Schmitt -- her partner and former coach -- of attacking her in a drunken rage while she was in bed in her apartment Saturday night.
He straddled me, and started punching me, left and right, the 27-year old told a news conference on Thursday, her face covered in bruises.
I didn't even defend myself to avoid the punches, instead I tried to reason with him. I said 'Stop Alain, stop', she said. I thought to myself, I need to get away from him, or I'll die here.
Police arrested Schmitt, but he was released after a court hearing early Wednesday, with the judge saying that there was insufficient evidence to support the domestic violence allegation.
My impression is that I was defending myself, Schmitt told the BFMTV broadcaster Friday. I have never hit a woman in my entire life. In my intimate life I am a tender person.
Prosecutors immediately lodged an appeal against the court's decision which sparked widespread anger, including from candidates campaigning for next year's French presidential election.
Far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon called the incident revolting and said about the court's decision: What else do they need? For her to die?
Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, who is the mayor of Paris, said that Pinot has all my support, while Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu said that Margaux is clearly the victim here.
But Schmitt said that it was Pinot who attacked him, out of anger because he was about to leave for Israel where he had been hired to coach the national women judo team.
Schmitt said he accepted the job to get out of the relationship with Pinot which he said had been complicated over the past two years.
He told BFMTV that, during the fight, he tried to leave the apartment, but each time I was pulled back, by my T-shirt or my arm.
He insisted that he neither punched nor kicked her. I'm not violent. Everybody needs to hear that, he said.
Schmitt, who had a large bruise on one side of his face, reiterated that they both crashed into walls and the floor during the judo-style fight which he said explained the injuries.
Pinot has rejected Schmitt's version of events, telling reporters: He's lying.
Following the accusations, the Israeli judo federation broke off contact with Schmitt.
Apart from her Olympic medal, Pinot has notably won two European champion titles and a world championship bronze medal.