Pierre Palmade: the actor placed under judicial control with electronic bracelet


A week after the serious road accident he caused under the influence of cocaine, comedian Pierre Palmade was placed under house arrest in hospital on Friday with an electronic bracelet at the end of his 48 hours of jail. Presented to an investigating judge, to whom the continuation of the investigation was entrusted, the 54-year-old artist escaped placement in pre-trial detention. The prosecution of Melun, which had requested before the judge of freedoms and detention, will appeal.

“Pierre Palmade was placed, by the judge of freedoms and detention, under house arrest, within an addiction service of a hospital, under electronic surveillance”, declared in a press release Friday evening the prosecutor de Melun Jean-Michel Bourlès, who did not mention his possible indictment. The two passengers present in his car at the time of the accident, a 33-year-old Moroccan and a 34-year-old Frenchman, were placed under the status of assisted witness for failure to assist a person in danger. They had left the scene shortly after the accident.

The six-year-old child and his father, still in serious condition

Lawyer for the Moroccan passenger, Me Nathalie Fontanau indicated at the end of the hearing that her client “was sleeping” at the time of the accident. “He was a victim himself. We tend to forget that he was the victim of a traffic accident,” she told reporters. On Friday 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 driver and his 6-year-old son are still hospitalized in intensive care in serious condition,” said the Melun prosecutor in a first statement Friday noon. Pierre Palmade was initially hospitalized in Kremlin-Bicêtre before being transferred Wednesday to the Melun hospital center to be heard by investigators under police custody. He “admitted having consumed cocaine as well as synthetic drugs before driving” but “indicated having no precise memory of the circumstances of the accident”, added the prosecutor.

The two passengers confirmed that they fled after the accident

The first passenger was arrested early Wednesday morning in Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine). The second went to the Melun police station late Wednesday afternoon, accompanied by his lawyer. “They confirmed that they fled before help arrived. They had also consumed narcotics,” said the prosecutor, who requested their placement under judicial control.

According to the first elements of the investigation communicated by the prosecution, the vehicle driven by Pierre Palmade struck last Friday around 7 p.m. a car which was coming opposite near Villiers-en-Bière, in the south of Seine-et-Marne, for an undetermined reason. On board this Renault Megane, a 38-year-old Seine-et-Marnais, his six-year-old son and his 27-year-old sister-in-law.

“The autopsy performed did not establish whether this child was born alive”

The vital prognosis of the woman, six and a half months pregnant at the time of the accident, is no longer engaged. According to the declarations Wednesday of her lawyer, Me Mourad Battikh, she is “devastated”. The instruction was opened for “manslaughter” to determine if the child had died before delivery or if he lived a few seconds before his death.

According to Jean-Michel Bourlès, “the autopsy carried out did not make it possible to establish whether this child was born alive. Additional expertise was ordered on this point”. Pierre Palmade was sentenced in 1995 for cocaine consumption. In 2019, he was taken into custody for use and acquisition of narcotics after being falsely accused of rape.



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