A straight road, with dry pavement, without the slightest obstacle on the horizon. Mila still sees her brother-in-law’s hand resting on the steering wheel. The headlights dazzle him, “as if they were targeting us”. The feeling of being shaken “like on a merry-go-round”. And bad, very bad, too much stomach pain. In the bar of the Melun judicial court, on Wednesday, November 20, Mila freezes for a moment to tell “the feeling of emptiness” that followed. Her emergency cesarean section at 27 weeks and five days pregnant. His daughter Solin, stillborn. Mila counted correctly when she hugged her: Solin had all her fingers. It weighed 1,090 grams. The accident killed her in the womb.
On Wednesday afternoon, Pierre Palmade was sentenced to five years in prison, two of them for aggravated unintentional injuries. He was not prosecuted for homicide because if the fetus was “viable” According to experts, Solin has shown no signs of extrauterine life and therefore has no established legal personality. “I am devastateddeclared Pierre Palmade, during the hearing. This is a legal debate that is beyond me. I will always have this baby on my conscience. »
On February 10, 2023 at 6:45 p.m., a head-on collision on a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne destroyed the lives of Mila, then six months pregnant, and her family. The crushed body of his brother-in-law, summarized in 171 days of temporary work disability, takes a painful position a year and a half later.
“The brain of a drug addict”
Leaning on a crutch, he lists the consequences in threads: the operations, the medications, the rehabilitation, the permanent disability of his left hand, the pain that “hit the brain”worried about the future of his son, also seriously injured in the accident, at the age of 6. Mila adds to the consequences of the accident those of a postpartum period without a baby to hug. Depression, nightmares and, ” Unfortunately “, a familiar face to remember: that of Pierre Palmade, at the wheel of the car that suddenly swerved and violently ran over them.
“The accident is based exclusively on a serious driving error”concluded the prosecutor in her requisitions, being decisive on “The scourge of driving under the influence of drugs”. Cocaine and various synthetic drugs were found in Pierre Palmade’s blood.
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