Since 9:30 a.m. this Wednesday, November 20, Pierre Palmade has been facing justice to answer for the facts of unintentional injuries, aggravated by the use of drugs after the traffic accident which took place now twenty-one months ago, in Villiers-en-Bière, a village south of Melun (Seine-et-Marne).
In this case, a 27-year-old woman, six months pregnant at the time of the incident, lost the child she was carrying. The day before the trial, she confided in our colleagues at RMC and expressed her anxieties. “The trial forces me to think about the accident, to relive it again. The worry, the nightmares and the flashbacks resurface automatically,” she declared.
“The doctors told me that I won’t be able to go back to the way I was before,” confides Yuksel Yakut
The driver whose car was hit by Pierre Palmade reported his injuries to the Melun criminal court.
Trial #Palmade #Melun : Yuksel Yakut, concerning his after-effects, particularly in his legs and left arm, “the doctors told me that I would never be able to go back to the way I was before” @TF1Info
— Guillaume Chièze (@GuillaumeChieze) https://twitter.com/GuillaumeChieze/status/1859170388153974850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Mila, the young woman who was six months pregnant at the time of the events, took the stand
“I was not able to become attached to my child during pregnancy,” Mila told the Melun criminal court this Wednesday, November 20, after losing her baby during the terrible traffic accident. The day before, she had also expressed her anxieties regarding this trial to our colleagues at RMC.
Baby’s legal status called into question during hearing
The lawyer for the civil parties, Me Mourad Battikh, questioned the legal status of the baby that one of the victims, Mila, lost during the accident when she was 6 months pregnant. At the time, a medical expert concluded that the baby had died “in utero”, thus depriving him of the legal status of being alive. Not having been born alive in the hospital, homicide was therefore not held against the comedian.
“I solemnly ask you to change this case law and allow Mr. Palmade to appear voluntarily for involuntary manslaughter,” relates a TF1info journalist present at the trial, who quotes the lawyer.
A request that the principal concerned and his lawyer, Me Celine Lasek, refused. “I object to his voluntary appearance,” she said.
The fetus was not born alive when it arrived at the hospital, so it has no legal existence under the law. The judge therefore did not accept “homicide” based on consistent case law from the Court of Cassation. “The case law is absurd” says @maitre_battikh
— Marie Belot (@mclbel) https://twitter.com/mclbel/status/1859159676018966858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Belgium
