the victims of the accident “physically and psychologically very affected”, confides their lawyer

The comedian is on trial on Wednesday for the accident he caused in Seine-et-Marne while under the influence of drugs 21 months ago, seriously injuring three members of the same family.

The victims of the road accident caused on February 10, 2023 by comedian Pierre Palmade are “physically and psychologically still very affected”, confided Wednesday, November 20 on franceinfo Me Mourad Battikh, lawyer of the familywhile the trial of Pierre Palmade opens in Melun.

Twenty-one months after the crash, Pierre Palmade was tried on Wednesday for the serious road accident he caused in Seine-et-Marne while under the influence of drugs. He had taken the wheel to go shopping, after several days of partying and unbridled drug use. He then hit a vehicle coming in front. 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 her baby after the impact. 'she was waiting. The lawyer assures that“as the hearing approaches” these victims “are in a state of absolute stress” because they will have to face “to the one who turned their lives and their existence upside down”.

Me Mourad Battikh also returns to the fact that the investigating judge did not accept the qualification of involuntary homicide that the prosecution had requested for the loss of the fetus. Indeed, the comedian is being tried for the sole charge of involuntary injuries, aggravated by taking drugs, because the baby, extracted urgently by cesarean section from his mother's womb, was declared dead without having given any sign of extra life. -uterine. However, according to case law from the Court of Cassation, a child who is not born alive does not exist as a legal person.

Me Mourad Battikh judges this case law “highly questionable”, “absurd”. He therefore intends to contest it on Wednesday morning “before the criminal court”.

“We are in a world where French law protects animals or the offspring of animals better than an unborn child.”

Me Mourad Battikh

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“You could be criminally prosecuted for unintentionally harming your pet or because you crushed an egg of a rare bird, but you cannot be criminally prosecuted when you unintentionally led to the death of a fetus “denounces the lawyer.

The lawyer for the civil parties also hopes that “this trial will have educational value on drug use, on the relationship between drug users and risk-taking”. For his clients, this trial will be an opportunity to“trying to turn the page”, and especially for the young woman “to be able to end the mourning of this lost child whom she will never meet”. Me Mourad Battikh affirms that his clients “wait to confront and confront with great dignity the one who turned their lives upside down, to be able to explain what their life was before and what it is now.”