before the trial of Pierre Palmade, a victim talks about his after-effects

Pierre Palmade will be tried on November 20 for injuring three people in February 2023, while he was driving after taking drugs.

On February 10, 2023, Pierre Palmade collided head-on with another car, on a departmental road in Seine-Saint-Denis. The comedian was then driving under the influence of drugs. He will be tried from November 20 for injuring three people: Yuksel Yakut, his six-year-old son Devrim and Mila, his sister-in-law who was six and a half months pregnant.

One year and nine months after the events, for the victims, the after-effects are still numerous. “I have such intense pain that I am exhausted and I feel like my brain is going to explode,” confides Yuksel Yakut, who was driving the vehicle hit by Pierre Palmade, to TF1.

Transported to hospital in serious condition with a life-threatening prognosis – like the two other passengers, he had to undergo numerous surgical procedures. “I had surgery on my stomach, shoulders, legs, feet. The doctors told me that I would have after-effects,” he explains, adding that he no longer has “sensations in three fingers.”

And added: “When I walk, the patches I have in my legs cause me a lot of pain. Even to wash and walk, I have to ask my loved ones for help.”

“I don’t know what our future will be”

And Yuksel Yakut is not the only one to suffer the consequences of the accident. His son, aged 6 at the time, “is not doing well at all,” he explains. “He can no longer stand the sun or the cold” and “had to repeat his CE1 class”, his teacher describing “panic attacks” and an inability to concentrate.

“I don’t know what our future will be like for my son and I. Will I be able to work again one day, will I stay in this state? I don’t know,” wonders the man from 38 years old.

Pierre Palmade will appear in court for involuntary injuries, starting next Wednesday, November 20. He risks up to 14 years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros. “He transformed our lives into hell,” concludes Yuksel Yakut on TF1. “I only want one thing: for him to pay for what he did.”