“He made our lives hell.” For Yuksel Yakut’s family, there was a before and after February 10, 2023. That evening, driving on a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne, they encountered that of Pierre Palmade, who collided head-on with their car. If Yuksel Yakut, her six-year-old son and her 27-year-old sister-in-law, almost seven months pregnant, survive the head-on collision, the physical and psychological injuries are numerous, starting with the loss of the unborn child. “I only want one thing: for him to pay for what he did.”confides the father of the family in the show Seven to Eight on TF1 Sunday November 10. The comedian will be tried from November 20 at the Melun criminal court.
“I feel like my brain is going to explode.”
During the collision, the vehicles are torn to pieces. “We are talking about crushed bodies, multiple fractures, multiple traumas. We are talking about an incalculable number of operations concerning the driver and when we say that he could have gone through it, it is not a formula, it is real. summarizes the lawyer for the civil parties, Mourad Battikh, in this same program. “I had surgery on my stomach, shoulders, legs, feet.lists the 38-year-old father, who says he no longer has sensations in three fingers. His daily life? The pain. “When I walk, the patches I have in my legs cause me a lot of pain. Even to wash myself and walk, I have to ask my loved ones for help”he describes. These pains are “so intense” that the man says to himself “exhausted”. “I feel like my brain is going to explode.”he says.
His son Devrim, who was in the back of the car, tied up like all the passengers, “not doing well at all”. “He doesn’t want to go out anymore because of the scars on his head, he’s in constant pain. He can no longer stand the sun or the cold.assures his father. “He has plaques in his mouth so when he eats, his jaws get tired very quickly”. In addition to the physical after-effects, the child “had to repeat his CE1 class.” The mistresses would have reported to the father “panic attacks”. “He can no longer concentrate” he emphasizes.
An uncertain future
The young mother’s unborn child, Mila, did not survive the accident. Pierre Palmade was initially indicted for “involuntary manslaughter” for the death of the baby, but he will finally appear for “involuntary injuries”. According to case law, a stillborn child cannot be considered a person. The victims’ lawyer would like to change this court decision: “We have a baby who was going to be born, who was unable to be born solely because of this accident. And we would like to pretend that this was anecdotal. […] She was about to give birth, she had given this child a name, things were bought, the room was ready, it existed. The law cannot deny the existence of this child who was about to be born..
Pierre Palmade faces up to 14 years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros for the acts of which he is accused, namely of having driven with a large quantity of cocaine and 3MMC, a synthetic drug, in his blood. According to his friend François Rollin, also an actor, Pierre Palmade would be “absteme [personne qui ne boit pas d’alcool, ndlr] for a little over a year, no drugs or alcohol.” The fact of having injured a child and caused the death of another in the womb, “it will haunt him until the end of his days”, he believes. “Why does he survive? Because he has the crazy desire to try to ask for forgiveness, to try to make amends, that’s what keeps him standing.” according to his friend. Opposite, Yuksel Yakut sees the future as permanent uncertainty. “I don’t know what our future will be for my son and me. Will I be able to work again one day, will I stay in this state? I don’t know”.
