For three days, Pierre Palmade had been partying continuously without sleeping between Paris and his country house in Cély-en-Bière (Seine-et-Marne), alternating injections of 3-MMC (a synthetic drug), taking of cocaine and parts of “chemsex“with”sex friends“.
“We’re really like zombies, vegetables, naked, bloody“, he describes to the judges. On Friday evening, at nightfall, the comedian gets in the car with two companions to go buy dinner at the local supermarket before the arrival of his dealer responsible for restocking drugs.
Dozed by 3-MMC, he takes several lines of cocaine before getting behind the wheel in order to “wake up again“. “I see all three of us leaving the house euphoric and then it’s dark, I open my eyes and I’m (at the) Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital.“, says Pierre Palmade, who says he has no memory of the accident.
According to the investigating judge, in the straight line of a departmental road, the vehicle driven by the comedian makes a sudden departure from the road and will collide on the lane opposite the car of a family driving in the opposite direction . On his hospital bed, “I am told that there are injured people, a family, the loss of a baby, manslaughter… Lots of words that I don’t understand“, confides Pierre Palmade. “I understand that I am in hell.“
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