The driver of the car hit by the actor testifies on TF1 about the “hell” his life has become. The comedian will be tried on November 20 for “unintentional injuries”.
A few days before the opening of the trial, one of the victims of the terrible car accident caused by Pierre Palmade does not mince his words. “He made our lives hell. (…) I only want one thing: for him to pay for what he did.”declared Yuksel, the driver of the vehicle, on the microphone of the show Seven to Eight from TF1.
On February 10, 2023, on a departmental road located near Villiers-en-Bière, in Seine-et-Marne, while he was under the influence of drugs, Pierre Palmade collided head-on with Yuksel’s car. Also inside were his 6-year-old son and his sister-in-law, who was six and a half months pregnant.
“I feel like my brain is going to explode.”
More than a year later, Yuksel and his family are still suffering the consequences of this tragedy. “I have such intense pain that I am exhausted and feel like my brain is going to explode. I had surgery on my stomach, shoulders, legs, feet. Yuksel explains to the cameras today, “I no longer have feeling in three fingers. When I walk, the patches in my legs cause me a lot of pain. Even to wash myself and walk, I have to ask my loved ones for help”.
His son, too, endures excruciating pain. “Because of the scars on his head, he no longer wants to go out: he can no longer stand the sun or the cold. He has plaques in his mouth, so when he eats, his jaws get tired very quickly.. In class, the child reports “panic attacks” et “can no longer concentrate”. Yuksel’s sister-in-law, for her part, lost in utero her future child.
On November 20, Pierre Palmade will be tried for “unintentional injuries”. He is accused of having, under the influence of drugs and a repeat offender, driven in the opposite direction by moving into the left lane, causing a violent collision with Yuksel’s vehicle and seriously injuring three people. The qualification of involuntary homicide, initially requested by the prosecution due to the loss of the fetus, was ultimately not accepted. Pierre Palmade therefore risks 14 years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros. The actor had “uses narcotics”an offense for which he was “in a state of legal recidivism” due to a conviction in 2019, the Melun prosecutor, Jean-Michel Bourlès, specified in May 2024 in a press release.
