The comedian, indicted and placed under house arrest in an addiction service, is also accused by two individuals of having consulted child pornography images.
Eleven days after the dramatic accident in which three people were seriously injured, including a pregnant woman who lost her baby, the legal horizon is not clearing up for Pierre Palmade. The comedian has been under investigation since Saturday for suspicion of possession of child pornography. Two individuals accuse him. Le Figaro takes stock of the various investigations in progress.
Child pornography: a second individual accuses Palmade
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation on Saturday by the head of “possession of child pornography“. Two individuals accuse the 54-year-old actor of having consulted images of this type. They claim to have videos and audios proving them, which they have transmitted to the police.
The author of the first report was heard on Sunday for quite a long time by investigators from the Brigade for the Protection of Minors (BPM), according to the public prosecutor. The author of the second report was heard on Tuesday, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. According to a source familiar with the matter, this man lives in Bordeaux.
The comedian’s Parisian home was also searched on Sunday afternoon, according to the prosecution, which confirmed information from the Parisian . The investigators notably seized computer equipment, indicates a judicial source to the Figaro. They should also want to audition Pierre Palmade very soon on this file.
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Accident in Seine-et-Marne: the actor indicted
On February 10, on a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne, the actor, who tested positive for cocaine, was driving a car that hit another vehicle. In addition to the actor, the accident caused three serious injuries: a man, his son and his pregnant sister-in-law who lost her baby. The latter was released from the hospital on Tuesday, according to BFMTV. The driver and his 6-year-old son remain in hospital in serious condition.
Friday, February 17, the comedian was indicted on counts of manslaughter and involuntary injuries resulting in total incapacity for work greater than three months by driver who used narcotics, all committed in a state of legal recidivism. He “admitted to having used cocaine as well as synthetic drugs before driving” but “indicated that he had no precise recollection of the circumstances of the accident“Said the prosecutor of Melun, Jean-Michel Bourlès.
For the moment, the comedian has escaped prison and has been placed under house arrest in an addiction service at the Paul-Brousse hospital in Villejuif. He was placed on an electronic bracelet. But the prosecution appealed this decision. A new hearing before the investigating chamber will take place on Friday February 24, at 9 a.m., in order to discuss again whether or not to place him in detention. “The doctors at the Paul Brousse hospital estimated on Tuesday that the state of health of the actor, under house arrest at the hospital, was incompatible with any long-term hearing, a fortiori under the regime of police custody.“, for his part wrote The Parisian .
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Narcotics: the investigations entrusted to the gendarmes
This is the last part of Pierre Palmade’s legal troubles: his relationship with narcotics. The Melun prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for possession and use of narcotics, following the confessions of the comedian and his two friends, who admitted to having taken drugs before the accident.
A search carried out at the home of Pierre Palmade, in Cély-en-Bière (Seine-et-Marne) on February 12, however, did not allow the seizure of drugs. The investigation, entrusted to the gendarmerie, is continuing.