the lawyer for Pierre Palmade's victims regrets that the actor is not being prosecuted for “involuntary manslaughter”

Mourad Battikh, the lawyer for the victims of the accident caused by Pierre Palmade, speaks a few days before the opening of the trial of the man who drove under the influence of drugs.

Master Mourad Battikh does not lose his temper. The one who represents the victims of the accident caused by Pierre Palmade spoke on RTL this Sunday, November 17, three days before the opening of the actor's trial in Melun.

While Pierre Palmade will be tried for “involuntary injuries” for the accident which occurred in February 2023 on a road in Seine-et-Marne, the lawyer believes that he should have been brought to justice for “involuntary manslaughter”. He describes the decision to rule out this point as “scandalous”.

As a reminder, three members of the same family were injured and a 27-year-old pregnant woman lost her six-month-old fetus. A medical expert concluded that the baby had died before birth. And that he could therefore not be legally considered a human person.

The victims are “better physically”

A very difficult point for the young woman, according to Maître Mourad Battikh, for whom “the hardest thing” is that her child is considered “nothing” in this matter. “We had a fetus which was going to be born, alive and viable, and which was unable to do so because of the accident. There is a direct causal link between the death of this child and the accident. And legally, we draw no consequences from it.”

The other injured people “are doing better physically (and) are recovering slowly, but surely from their injuries and the shock they suffered”, the lawyer tells our colleagues. But on a psychological level, he assures that it is “much more complicated to rebuild oneself”.

As Agence France Presse recalls, during his first questioning before the investigating judge, Pierre Palmade said he was “disaster” at the consequences of the accident for the victims:

“I'm obsessed with that, with the baby who died (…). I'm dangerous because of drugs, I'm a nice guy, I'm a good person,” declared the artist, who himself lost his father in a road accident at the age of 8.

For these facts, and being judged to be a repeat offender, Pierre Palmade faces a sentence of 14 years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros.