The Melun criminal court on Wednesday sentenced comedian Pierre Palmade to five years in prison, including two years, with a deferred committal warrant, for the serious road accident he caused while under the influence of drugs.
“You will very soon be summoned by the Bordeaux prosecutor (where he now resides, editor’s note) who will determine the date and the penitentiary establishment in which you will serve two years of detention,” explained the president of the court to Pierre Palmade, found guilty of seriously injuring three members of the same family in February 2023.
On February 10, 2023 at the end of the day, the man of theater and television took the wheel to go shopping, after several days of partying and unbridled drug consumption. He then has a large quantity of 3MMC (a synthetic drug) in his blood.
“We are really like zombies, vegetables, naked, bloody,” he described to the judges on Wednesday. Dozed by 3-MMC, he “wakes up” again with new doses of cocaine to get behind the wheel. And it was on a road in the south of the Seine-et-Marne department, southeast of Paris, that his car collided head-on with the victims’ vehicle coming in front.
“I see all three of us leaving the house euphoric and then it’s dark, I open my eyes and I’m at the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital,” says Pierre Palmade, who says he has no memory of the impact.
The accident left three people from the same family seriously injured: a 38-year-old man, his six-year-old son and his 27-year-old sister-in-law, who lost the baby she was expecting. “I understand their anger. A crazy drug addict crashed into them, it’s almost inexcusable,” conceded on Wednesday the comedian, who has become a showbiz pariah since the revelation to the general public of his dark dating problems. ‘addictions.
Before the judges, Pierre Palmade asks for forgiveness for his accident under the influence of drugs
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