21 months after the accident, Pierre Palmade's trial opened this Wednesday, November 20, in Melun. On February 10, 2023, at the end of the day, after consuming narcotics, the comedian took the wheel and caused a very violent frontal collision. In the car arriving opposite, three people were seriously injured, including a pregnant woman who lost her baby.
It was a marked man who appeared before the judges this Wednesday. Like a wax statue, Pierre Palmade stands straight, very pale under the crackling flashes. Sitting among his lawyerswith a blank look, a haggard look, he steps up to the stand to simply state his identity at this point in a thin and unsure voice, then he sits down again.
He won't move an inch all morning, eyes fixed on the victims who testify on the stand. First the driver of the Mégane, then the young woman who lost her baby. Brunette, long hair, dressed all in black, she came to the stand to testify in tears: “My daughter, I saw her, she was whole, I counted her fingers,” she declares.
But despite the observations of his lawyer, it is impossible in law to try Pierre Palmade for manslaughter. Impossible to change the case law simply because the investigating judge dismissed this offense, It won't even be examined at the hearing.
Today, the young woman seems to be having difficulty recovering; she has another baby aged two and a half months, and a little girl too. “She looks like her big sister who was never born,” she assures.
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