Twenty-one months after the accident, the time for trial has arrived. Pierre Palmade will be tried on Wednesday, November 20, for the serious traffic accident he caused in the Seine-et-Marne while he was under the influence of drugs. On February 10, 2023 at the end of the day, the comedian took the wheel to go shopping, after several days of partying and rampant drug use. On a road south of the department, his car collided with a vehicle ahead.
In addition to the actor, the accident left three people from the same family seriously injured: a 38-year-old man, his 6-year-old son, and his 27-year-old sister-in-law, who lost the baby she had. I was waiting.
At the end of the judicial investigation, the investigating judge referred Pierre Palmade to the Melun criminal court at the end of May, accused only of unintentional injuries, aggravated by drug use. He did not maintain the classification of involuntary manslaughter, which the prosecution had requested for the loss of the fetus, considering that this thorny issue, at the confluence of bioethics and law, deserved special attention. “debate before the court of first instance”.
“I am dangerous”
After the accident, the fetus was urgently removed by cesarean section from its mother’s uterus, six months into the pregnancy. He was declared dead after thirty-two minutes of resuscitation, with no signs of extrauterine life. However, according to reiterated jurisprudence of the Court of Cassation that has ruled in similar cases of traffic accidents, a child who is not born alive does not exist as a legal entity.
“The strict interpretation of the criminal law does not authorize the repression and therefore the prosecution of acts of manslaughter in the case of a child who was not born alive, as is the case” In the Palmade case, the investigating judge ruled in his order of referral to the criminal court, consulted by the Agence France-Presse.
One day late in February, Pierre Palmade had a large amount of cocaine and 3-MMC (a synthetic drug) in his blood when he got behind the wheel with two companions. “party”who were not prosecuted. On the departmental road 372, near Villiers-en-Bière, his production company’s Peugeot 3008 veered into the opposite lane and collided head-on with the Renault Mégane of the Y. family that was arriving in the opposite direction.
The artist says he has no memories of the accident. “Pierre Palmade made a driving error when he suddenly turned the steering wheel, causing his vehicle to travel in the wrong direction.”However, the investigating judge concluded. The injured family members still suffer the physical and psychological consequences of the accident.
During his first interrogation before the investigating judge, Pierre Palmade stated that ” disaster “ consequences for victims. “I’m obsessed with this, with the baby that died (…). “I’m dangerous because of drugs, I’m a good guy, I’m a good person.”declared the artist, who lost his father in a traffic accident when he was 8 years old.
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Pierre Palmade is a repeat offender due to a 2019 conviction for drug use. Therefore, he faces a sentence of fourteen years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros.
