If the three passengers of the vehicle hit head-on by that of the actor try to rebuild themselves, the physical pain as well as the psychological after-effects remain very present.
A family demanding justice. Twenty-one months later, the trial of Pierre Palmade opens this Wednesday, November 20, for the serious road traffic accident he caused in Seine-et-Marne, under the influence of narcotics, on February 10, 2023.
In addition to the then 54-year-old actor, the accident left three seriously injured from the same family: a 38-year-old man, his six-year-old son and his 27-year-old sister-in-law, who lost the baby after the impact. that she was waiting for. Despite long months of rehabilitation, they still suffer from the physical and psychological consequences of this collision.
“He turned our lives into hell”
“I've had surgery five or six times. When I don't take my medication, I can't walk, it's too painful. There are scars on my stomach, on my leg…”, explains to BFMTV, Yuksel Yakut, aged 41, whose life-threatening condition was in jeopardy.
“He made our lives hell. […] I have such intense pain that I am exhausted and I have the impression that my brain is going to explode,” he also indicates, this time to TF1.
Yuksel also says he no longer remembers the moment of the collision. “I was very careful on the road. I remember asking him if I wasn't driving too fast on the speed bumps,” he explained. The man remembers “a few bits of conversation,” but then, “it's a blackout.”
“Let the sanction be appropriate”
Justice did not recognize the qualification of involuntary homicide, which the prosecution had requested for the loss of the fetus of the passenger, Mila C., six months pregnant, considering that this thorny question at the confluence of bioethics and of the law deserved a “debate before the trial court”.
Following the accident, the baby was urgently extracted by cesarean section from his mother's womb, but declared dead after 32 minutes of resuscitation, without having given any sign of extra-uterine life.
“I only expect one thing, that the sanction will be commensurate with what Pierre Palmade did to me, and the consequences which still crush us today,” the young woman told RMC.
She explains the apprehension that affects her as the trial approaches, which “forces her to think about the accident, to relive it again. The worry, the nightmares and the 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”.
Devrim “is not doing well at all”
Speaking to Le Parisien, Yuksel Yakut also gave news of his son, Devrim, who “is not doing well at all.” The six-year-old child at the time of the accident “no longer wants to go outside because of the scars on his head, he is in constant pain.” According to the Ile-de-France daily, Devrim's schooling was difficult, marked by panic attacks which caused him to repeat a year in CE1.
“We went through very difficult times. We had financial and psychological problems, money is not serious but morale was complicated. Fortunately, everyone is alive,” says Ercan for his part. , Yuksel's brother, at BFMTV.
Pierre Palmade is being prosecuted for involuntary injuries with two aggravating circumstances – the use of narcotics and breach of an obligation of prudence and safety – “with ITT of more than three months.”
Pierre Palmade has in fact already been convicted in 2019 for drug use. He therefore incurs 14 years in prison and 200,000 euros fine. This sentence may be accompanied by a total suspension, a simple suspension or a probationary suspension.
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