On the sidelines of the opening of the trial of Pierre Palmade, judged on Wednesday November 20 by the Melun criminal court for “unintentional injuries”, Me Mourad Battikh, the lawyer for the three victims of the accident that the actor caused while under drugs in February 2023, criticized the characterization of the facts on RTL.
Almost two years after the collision which seriously injured three people, including a pregnant woman who had lost her fetus, Pierre Palmade will appear in court. The comedian and actor at the origin of the accident which occurred in February 2023 on a road in Seine-et-Marne, while he was driving under drugs, will be judged from Wednesday November 20 by the Melun criminal court. A trial that the victims and their loved ones are awaiting, and which risks reviving the debate around the death of the unborn child of the mother injured that evening. “Legally, we draw no consequences from this”lamented Me Mourad Battikh, the victims' lawyer, on RTL, Saturday November 17.
“A direct causal link between the death of this child and the accident”
Since the start of the case, the civil parties have denounced the characterization of the facts. Pierre Palmade will in fact be judged for “unintentional injuries”, and not “involuntary manslaughter”, as the victims wish. “Legally, for there to be a homicide, there must be a living being who has died. And there, we had a fetus which was going to be born, alive and viable and which could not because of the accident”underlined Me Mourad Battikh on RTL, estimating that“there is a direct causal link between the death of this child and the accident”.
And the advice to question the reckless behavior of Pierre Palmade, who was then leaving a chemsex evening, mixing drugs and sexual relations: “There is an intentional element. When you take a cocktail of drugs for several days […] In the end, we decide to take the vehicle and endanger the lives of others.”estimated the lawyer, specifying that his client is going through a difficult period because the State considers her child legally as “Nothing”.
“My daughter was killed”
Last February, a year after the accident, the mother confided to RMC that she lived on antidepressants, unable to “move furniture” from the room of her future child, and said she did not “no strength to go back” at work. “My daughter was killed”she proclaimed. The dismissal of the comedian for “unintentional injuries” was unanimously deplored by the three victims last May. The sentence handed down could also be a source of tension.
