The comedian is on trial, this Wednesday, November 20, before the Melun judicial court, for having caused serious injuries to three people, during a traffic accident, in February 2023. At the time of the events, he was driving under the influence of drugs.
Everything happened, around 6:45 p.m., on February 10, 2023, on the straight line of a departmental road, a few kilometers south of Melun (Seine-et-Marne), near the town of Villiers-en-Bière .
There, comedian Pierre Palmade, 56, saw his life turned upside down. Just like those of the three occupants, including a 6-year-old child, of a Renault Megane, hit head-on by the Peugeot 3008 of Véronique Sanson’s ex-partner.
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Pierre Palmade is on trial this Wednesday, November 20, before the Melun judicial court, for acts of “unintentional injuries by a driver who deliberately violated an obligation of caution or safety and who used narcotics”. Injuries caused to the three victims during this terrible accident.
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He faces a sentence of 14 years’ imprisonment and a fine of €200,000, while he is a repeat offender, having already been convicted, in the summer of 2019, for “use and acquisition” of drugs Paris.
This February 10, 2023, a few moments after the impact, all that remains is a pile of crumpled metal sheets from the two vehicles. A third motorist, aged 86, was unable to slow down before hitting the rear of the Renault Megane.
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Seriously injured, Pierre Palmade must be extricated from the passenger compartment of his car. The motorist he hit, Yuksel Y., was unable to avoid the collision. This 38-year-old father saw the Peugeot 3008, coming in the opposite direction, suddenly veer into its lane.
A witness mentions having observed “a vehicle drift” in its lane, “like a person falling asleep”. “For me, he was driving fast. Much faster than the speed limit” assures the same witness.
On this portion of the road, the scene of the accident, it is set at 80km/h. Experts estimated the speed of Pierre Palmade’s car between “73 and 88km/h” at the time of the collision.
Yuksel Y. is airlifted, with a life-threatening condition and multiple trauma, to Beaujon hospital in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine). Sitting in the back – but without a booster seat, which accentuated the seriousness of his injuries – his son, who suffers from significant “head and facial trauma”, is evacuated, with a “very serious vital prognosis”. », to the Necker emergency room in Paris.
A little girl who died at birth
Her sister-in-law, Mila C., 27 years old, six months pregnant, was admitted to the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital (Val-de-Marne) where she gave birth a few hours later to a little girl, who died at birth. Named Solin-Hazal, she showed “no clinical sign of independent life during the 32 minutes” that her resuscitation lasted, concludes an expert report.
Regarding the causes of this collision, an expert clearly attributed them to the driver of the Peugeot 3008: “the fundamental cause of the accident thus appears exclusively linked to a driving error characterized by a complete deviation into the lane in the opposite direction and a absence of trajectory resumption in correction. The origin of this deviation seems linked to the disproportionate correction of a first deviation to the right.
The comedian’s blood tests revealed the presence of cocaine residues but also 3-MMC: a drug very popular at “chemsex” parties in the homosexual community.
At the time of the accident, Pierre Palmade was with “two party friends” as he declared. Men with whom, during the two days preceding the accident, he injected himself, once an hour, with 3-MMC intravenously. Injections interspersed with cocaine to “wake up”.
A heavy addiction to various narcotics, for several years, against which the comedian indicated that he tried to fight by following several detoxification treatments, but without completing them.
Questioned by an investigating judge, Michèle Laroque’s ex-stage partner, who himself lost his father at the age of 8 in a traffic accident, said he was “completely devastated to have endangered the family I hit.” “I’m obsessed with this, for the baby that died […]he continued. My relationship with drugs must be resolved, drugs must be banned from my life. I’m dangerous because of drugs. I’m a nice guy, I’m a good person.”
When asked, one of Pierre Palmade’s lawyers “did not wish to speak”, while assuring that his client would be “present” for his trial.
