The victim, who has since become a mother, emphasizes that this accident resulted in a lack of attachment to her child during pregnancy.
A moving testimony. Mila, the young passenger six months pregnant who lost her child after the accident caused by Pierre Palmade, spoke this Wednesday, November 20 to discuss the loss of her baby at the helm during the first day of the actor's trial before the criminal court of Melun (Seine-et-Marne).
Following the accident that occurred on February 10, 2023, the fetus was urgently extracted by cesarean section from its mother's womb at six months of pregnancy, but declared dead after 32 minutes of resuscitation, without having given any sign of extra life. -uterine.
“When she was born, I was in total denial. For me, I had just given birth. Solin, I had carried her in my arms (…) I thought we were going to take care of her. She was dead,” Mila explained in tears on the stand.
“Very difficult for me”
As she also explained, Mila has since become pregnant since the accident. She gave birth to little Lawmin two months ago. “I was not able to become attached to my child during the pregnancy,” confides the mother.
She explains that she cannot take her daughter in her arms because everything brings her back to Solin's death. “I love my daughter very much. It's very difficult for me to hold her.” For this reason, she also adds expressing her breast milk to feed her child, as she cannot hold it herself.
During this same testimony, Mila also discussed the consequences of the accident and the pain still present in her right shoulder and left leg.
Up to 14 years in prison
After a long year of judicial investigation, the investigating judge sent Pierre Palmade back to the Melun Criminal Court at the end of May on the sole charge of involuntary injuries, aggravated by the use of drugs.
She did not retain the qualification of involuntary homicide, which the prosecution had requested for the loss of the fetus, considering that this thorny question at the confluence of bioethics and law deserved a “debate before the trial court”.
Pierre Palmade is a repeat offender due to a conviction in 2019 for drug use. He faces a sentence of fourteen years' imprisonment and a fine of 200,000 euros.
Vincent Vantighem with Hugo Septier
