Tried this Wednesday for the accident which left three people injured in February 2023, Pierre Palmade was sentenced to five years in prison, including two years. During the trial, the comedian spoke publicly about the case for the first time and even spoke directly to the victims.
11/20/24 – 11:36 p.m. – Until when can Pierre Palmade appeal?
END OF LIVE – Pierre Palmade now has 10 days to appeal his conviction. However, the comedian was sentenced with “provisional execution”, which means that even in the event of an appeal, Pierre Palmade will soon be incarcerated. He must in fact be summoned in the coming days by the Bordeaux public prosecutor to determine the start of his incarceration as well as the location.
11/20/24 – 10:53 p.m. – When and where will Pierre Palmade be imprisoned?
For the moment, it has not been indicated when Pierre Palmade's prison sentence will begin or where the comedian will be incarcerated. Warrant of deposition with deferred effect requires, Pierre Palmade will be “very soon summoned by the Bordeaux prosecutor who will fix with [lui] the date and penal establishment in which [il exécutera] two years of imprisonment,” the president told him at the time of the verdict.
11/20/24 – 10:17 p.m. – Does Pierre Palmade plan to appeal?
If he admitted his wrongs and apologized several times to the victims, will Pierre Palmade accept the verdict pronounced this Wednesday evening? His lawyer continued throughout this trial to highlight the progress in her client's reconstruction, emphasizing that in prison he could again obtain alcohol and drugs. She also pleaded in favor of a four-year probationary reprieve “so as not to break this path”. At this stage, the Palmade camp has not reacted, either to the verdict or to announce whether or not it intends to appeal.
20/11/24 – 9:33 p.m. – “We are satisfied”, declares the lawyer for the civil parties
At the end of the verdict in the Pierre Palmade trial, Me Mourad Battikh, lawyer for the civil parties, declared to the press that his clients “are satisfied with the holding of the debates” and that, in general, “the civil party is satisfied to have been listened to, heard, respected”. The advisor, however, stressed that “no judgment will live up to what my clients experienced and that is why the sentence [les] indifferent.”
20/11/24 – 8:54 p.m. – These conditions that Pierre Palmade must respect in order not to serve the other three years in prison
During the verdict of Pierre Palmade's trial, the president indicated to the comedian that “at the end of the execution of [sa] sentence” of two years in prison, the actor will have “over his head” three years which he will never serve “on two conditions: prove that you continue to treat yourself and pay the victims. The other condition: not to commit any offense again within three years,” he explained.
20/11/24 – 8:38 p.m. – Pierre Palmade sentenced to five years in prison, two of which are closed
Pierre Palmade is sentenced to five years in prison, including two years, with provisional execution, we learned this Wednesday evening. Deferred committal warrant requires, however, he will not sleep in prison this evening, as we explained to you earlier.
11/20/24 – 8:21 p.m. – Will Pierre Palmade sleep in prison this evening? Whatever the verdict, no
While the deliberation is still underway this Wednesday evening in Melun, where the verdict is eagerly awaited in the trial of Pierre Palmade, let's return to the requisitions. If a sentence of five years in prison, including two years, was requested against the comedian, the prosecutor also asked that the prison sentence be “not adjustable”. There is also talk of a “deferred effect” committal warrant. This means that the prosecutor is not calling for Pierre Palmade to be incarcerated this very evening. If the requisitions were followed, the comedian would have to be summoned later, to Bordeaux, since that is where he now resides, to be incarcerated.
20/11/24 – 7:50 p.m. – For his last speech, Pierre Palmade declares that he has “only one word, it is for the victims”
The comedian was invited one last time to speak on the stand. Pierre Palmade declared that he had only “one thought, one word, it is for the victims”. And the actor continued: “May they be able to rebuild as quickly as possible. I wish it with all my heart. I saw them in real life today and it shocked me.”
20/11/24 – 7:22 p.m. – “In prison we find alcohol very easily”, reacts Pierre Palmade's lawyer
After the requisitions, Pierre Palmade's lawyer took the floor. Firstly evoking her client's now very restricted entourage, “something protected” in her words, she contrasted this situation with the living conditions behind bars. “In prison, you can find alcohol very easily. What will it be like in prison? What care?” she asked, assuring that Pierre Palmade is today “surrounded by people who believe in him and are there for him” and that “in prison there will not be all that”.
“Today, he no longer does anything, theater, he no longer makes anyone laugh,” the comedian's lawyer once again underlined, before continuing his defense by pointing out the fact that his client “has found a little of what he was” to his family and that he even rewrote plays. The lawyer particularly insisted on the reconstruction of a man long plagued by drug addiction, and pleaded in favor of a four-year probationary reprieve “so as not to break this path”.
20/11/24 – 6:55 p.m. – “This consumption of narcotics should not justify the fault of Pierre Palmade”
During the requisitions, the prosecutor estimated that the artist's consumption of narcotics at the time of the accident “should not justify the fault of Pierre Palmade”. And to add: “The concern is this care which can be chaotic, it is to prevent the risk of recidivism and it is also the desire to give a sentence which must be understood by society.”
20/11/24 – 6:17 p.m. – Five years in prison, two of which are closed, required against Pierre Palmade
The requisitions have just been received. Five years in prison, including two prison terms, were requested against the comedian Pierre Palmade, tried this Wednesday, November 20 for the serious road accident which left three people injured in 2023.
11/20/24 – 5:38 p.m. – What does Pierre Palmade risk?
Pierre Palmade is a repeat offender. Already convicted for “use of narcotics” in 2019, he therefore faces “a sentence of 14 years' imprisonment and a fine of 200,000 euros”, declared the Melun prosecutor, Jean-Michel Bourlès. Conversely, the two passengers in his vehicle at the time of the accident are not being prosecuted. “At the end of the judicial investigation, there are no sufficient charges against them for having committed the acts of non-assistance to a person in danger”, it is said in the order of referral to the court correctional.
20/11/24 – 4:30 p.m. – Pierre Palmade speaks about his future
Invited to speak one last time before the start of the pleadings, Pierre Palmade admits to having “rediscovered a taste for life” and “simple pleasures” by allowing himself to be treated. He wants to stay in Bordeaux and does not want to return to Paris. “Abstinent for 17 months”, he intends to continue his treatment, to continue writing “for others”, but cannot imagine returning to the boards one day. He also says he is thinking about the appropriate way to prevent drugs.
11/20/24 – 4:02 p.m. – Pierre Palmade's witnesses take the stand
After admitting that he did not remember the moment of the accident and explaining the extent of his addiction to the bar, Pierre Palmade presented his witnesses. First, his sister, Hélène Palmade, who explained that her brother was treating his addictions. “I firmly believe that he will do the right thing,” believes the one who has not turned her back on him. Subsequently, a health mediator and an addictologist came to testify for one, or to provide their expertise on addiction for the other.
20/11/24 – 3:32 p.m. – Pierre Palmade explains his relapse in a nightclub after the accident
During the trial, Pierre Palmade returned to his addiction to cocaine, but also to his relapse in a nightclub in Bordeaux a few weeks after the accident: “it's scandalous and indecent”, he apologizes for himself the comedian, who explains that he “relapsed” while realizing that he no longer had friends and no future.
READ MORE
