LThe affair had the effect of a bomb in the media sphere. On February 23, 2023, comedian Pierre Palmade was involved in a tragic car accident. Under the influence of drugs after more than 72 hours of partying in his home located in Cély-en-Bière in Seine-et-Marne, he hit a vehicle coming in the opposite direction. Three people were injured in the collision, including a 6-month pregnant woman who lost her fetus.
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Three injured including a pregnant woman
It was around 6:45 p.m. when the police were alerted to a traffic accident involving three vehicles on the departmental 372 which connects the towns of Melun and Dammarie-les-Lys to Milly-la- Forest. Among those involved was Pierre Palmade. Accompanied by two friends with whom he was partying, the comedian and actor was trying to return to his home after having stocked up on drugs. In one of the other vehicles involved, a 27-year-old woman accompanied by a 40-year-old man and a six-year-old child were injured. Six months pregnant, the young woman finally lost the fetus she was carrying.
What risks does Pierre Palmade run?
Injured in the collision and airlifted to Bicêtre hospital, the comedian is now being prosecuted for “unintentional injuries”. The medical expertise carried out on the young woman had in fact concluded that the unborn baby had died before birth, hence the impossibility of qualifying the facts as “involuntary homicide”. Judged to be a repeat offender, the actor now faces a sentence of 14 years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros.
“I ruined a family’s life. I fall asleep and I get up with that,” Palmade testified before the investigating judge.
The victims' lawyer denounces a “scandal”
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While the trial of Pierre Palmade is due to open on November 20 before the Melun criminal court, the lawyer for the victims of the accident denounced this Sunday, November 17 on RTL the “scandalous” decision not to retain the qualification of involuntary manslaughter against the actor. “Legally, for there to be a homicide, there must be a living being who is dead. And there, we had a fetus which was going to be born, alive and viable, and which could not because of the accident,” he argued. But according to case law, a child who has not been born is not considered a legal person.
ALSO READ Pierre Palmade will be tried for “unintentional injuries” after the 2023 accidentIf Maître Mourad Battikh indicated that the three people involved in the collision are “doing better physically” today and are slowly recovering from this ordeal, the fact remains that on a psychological level, the road is still long. “It is much more complicated to rebuild on this level after this tragedy,” he explained in particular. Criticizing the causal link that exists to date between the accident and the death of the fetus, Mourad Battikh pointed out at the microphone of our colleagues the aggravating circumstance of taking narcotics as an “intentional element”. “When you take a cocktail of drugs for several days, you decide to put yourself in that state and consume excessively. Ultimately, we decide to take the vehicle and endanger the lives of others. »
