Pierre Palmade sentenced to prison. The comedian, tried almost two years after a violent car accident under drugs, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison, two of which are closed. The Melun court found him guilty of involuntary injury to a family, in accordance with the prosecution's requisitions.
The actor will be incarcerated in the Bordeaux region. For the two years in prison, the court issued a deferred committal warrant with provisional execution. He will be incarcerated in the Bordeaux region, where he lives.
A request for “forgiveness”. Appearing very marked, the 56-year-old comedian spoke directly to the victims during the trial. “I would like to ask you for forgiveness from the depths of my being,” he said. “Their serious injuries and their trauma, it knocked me down. I am really overwhelmed, tested to see them in real life,” he added.
The lawyer for the civil parties is “satisfied”. Me Mourad Battikh, lawyer for the civil parties, declared, at the end of the hearing, that his clients were “satisfied” with the trial, where the civil parties were “respected”. “There is no comment to make on the sentence, the court has decided,” he adds.
