EXCLUDED RMC. More than a year and a half after the car accident involving Pierre Palmade in Seine-et-Marne, on February 10, 2023, the comedian will be tried before the Melun criminal court for “aggravated involuntary injuries” this Wednesday, November 20 . On the eve of the trial, Mila, who lost her baby when she was six and a half months pregnant at the time of the tragedy, confides her anxieties and her expectations to RMC.
“It’s a trauma that consumes me entirely.” More than a year and a half after the tragedy, Mila, 27, must once again immerse herself in the accident caused by Pierre Palmade on February 10, 2023, while he was under the influence of narcotics. On the eve of the comedian's trial, which is being held on Wednesday November 20, 2024, the young woman, with long black hair tied in a ponytail, says she is paralyzed by anxiety.
“The trial forces me to think about the accident, to relive it again. Worry, nightmares and flashbacks resurface automatically,” she laments.
Because if she has been followed by a psychologist at least once a week since the tragedy, she fears that it will not be enough to combat her anxieties: “I had an appointment at the hospital to set up a new stronger drug treatment, which I will take until the end of the trial to survive psychologically”.
“I still can’t talk about it without crying”
Despite her still fragile mental health, Mila assures that she will be there to face Pierre Palmade. “But I don’t yet know if I will have the strength to speak during the hearing,” she confides to RMC. I’ve never been through a trial, I don’t know how it’s going to go.”
At the heart of her apprehension, the memory of her daughter whom she was never able to know. Then six and a half months pregnant at the time of the accident, the young woman lost her baby following the shock. “It’s going to be very hard,” she whispers, with tears in her eyes. I still can't talk about it, even think about it, without crying.”
The hope of a sanction commensurate with the trauma
The only little light at the end of the tunnel, the young woman's physical health has improved since the accident. After suffering from a detached shoulder blade which prevented her from moving normally for several months, “I am starting to find my previous body, without being paralyzed by unbearable pain”, she assures. .
A slight regain of form on which she intends to rely to get through this trial: “I only expect one thing, that the sanction is worthy of what Pierre Palmade did to me, and of the consequences which crush us still today.”
The former school assistant, who has still not been able to return to work, has already had to give up a trial for “involuntary manslaughter” after a medical expert concluded that her baby had died in utero, before emergency delivery in hospital. Justice does not consider that a fetus is a living being, only the qualification of “aggravated involuntary injuries” was then retained against the comedian.
“But I would like this trial to at least change the law in road accident cases,” she explains. May a very heavy sanction set a precedent for all women who would have to go through the pain of a lifetime: that of losing their baby while still in their womb.”
Fears of legal disappointment
But for several days, Mila's entourage, more pessimistic, tried to prepare her for legal disappointment. “Some fear that Pierre Palmade is privileged because of his notoriety,” she gets annoyed.
Placed under judicial supervision, the comedian has never entered the doors of a penitentiary establishment since the accident due to his health difficulties. He was then placed on an electronic bracelet and treated in an addiction center in Gironde, where he was under house arrest. A decision criticized by the civil parties, who had notably denounced a “favorable regime”.
But today, the young woman assures that she tries to remain optimistic: “Anyway, I have no other choice if I want to hold on. I want to believe that French justice will not differentiate between a celebrity and the broken strangers that we have become because of him.”
