The trial of Pierre Palmade opened before the criminal court of Melun (Seine-et-Marne) this Wednesday, November 20. The 56-year-old comedian was tried, more than a year and a half after the events, he who caused a road accident which left three people from the same family injured, and caused the death of a fetus, on February 10, 2023. He should also escape prison according to the prosecution's requisitions.
Since then, the fallen star has settled in Bordeaux, very close to her sister Hélène. We learned today in Le Parisien that he bought a house in a suburb undergoing gentrification in the Barrière de Bègles district. In Bordeaux, his daily life has changed a lot, far from the nightclubs, until now the common thread of his life. According to an acquaintance, he remains locked up at home in front of the television when he is not doing some shopping a hundred meters from his home.
During his rare outings, if the traders pretend nothing, like him, Pierre Palmade is sometimes confronted with passers-by who insult him from the corners of their lips, our colleagues report. “Some compare Palmade with Bertrand Cantat even if their two stories have nothing to do with each other“, notes a street trader. But both seem to haunt Bordeaux. The city saw the birth and death of the rock group Noir Désir. Twenty years after the murder of Marie Trintignant, in the stronghold of Bertrand Cantat, there remains a “wall of silence“, mentioned Liberation. Artists, fans, managers, journalists… there are still many who still refuse to comment on the guilt of a singer long praised for having “planted the rock flag” about the city, wrote our colleagues.
In Bordeaux, Pierre Palmade confronted with his greatest fear: “the gaze of others”
As with Bertrand Cantat, Pierre Palmade sometimes finds himself facing insults. Then others to passers-by who “remain padlocked by a prudent, benevolent or hindered distance depending on the case“. What do people think? This is the question that obsesses the comedian today. According to one of his acquaintances, “he is afraid of the gaze of otherss”. He recently dared to ask this acquaintance the question that torments him: “What do people think of me?” “And the other responds: 'Do you want me to please you or tell you the truth?'“, we learn. If his daily life has literally changed, the trial will definitely shape the contours of his future.
