While the judge in charge of the Pierre Palmade case – involved last year in a serious road accident – clarified the charges against him, the victims and their families react, denouncing this undoubtedly highly contested decision .
It was February 10, 2023. The dramatic road accident made the headlines: Pierre Palmade was involved in a collision with a car, on Departmental 372 between the towns of Perthes and Villiers-en-Bière (Seine-et-Marne), near his home. Under the influence of drugs, tested positive for cocaine, the comedian, now 56 years old, was placed in police custody given the consequences linked to this accident. In the opposite car, there were a 38-year-old father and his 10-year-old son, both seriously injured, as well as a pregnant woman who lost her baby in the collision.
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While many of his friends turned their backs on him, Pierre Palmade had to resolve to confronting addiction problems and finds himself confronted with justice. The Melun public prosecutor’s office had requested that Michèle Laroque’s ex-acolyte be prosecuted for manslaughter following the loss of the baby. But taking into account the fact that an expertise has meant that the child died before birth, Justice ultimately did not accept this charge.
The victims’ lawyer speaks
Monday May 27, more than a year after the accident, the Melun public prosecutor’s office announced that Pierre Palmade was referred to the criminal court for “unintentional injuries”, which brings the length of imprisonment he risks to 14 years and his possible fine to 200,000 euros. More precisely, it is stipulated that the actor is being prosecuted for “unintentional injuries by a driver who deliberately violated a particular duty of care or safety”it is said, which provokes indignation as we can read on social networks, but also the distress of the victims and their loved ones.
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Their lawyer, Me Mourad Battikh, quickly published a press release after the announcement of the court decision. “The civil parties that we represent obviously deplore this choice, with regard to the elements of the case and positive law, but also with regard to the most basic decency and humanity”he wrote, before adding: “While the investigating judge had the opportunity to draw conclusions from this tragedy and to change the law towards greater equity and justice, he made the choice to maintain it in its contradictions and in its absurdities“. However, no turnaround in the situation seems possible and the trial date could soon be set.
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Kendji involved in an accident and positive for cocaine
Pierre Palmade is not the only French star involved in an accident to have tested positive for cocaine. Lately, the singer Kendji Girac had to be hospitalized in Bordeaux after he shot himself in the chest, while he had joined members of his community in Biscarrosse. The drama, which was very quickly relayed, also took on unprecedented media coverage, with the investigation concluding that the artist had made a false suicide attempt after a violent argument with the mother of his daughter Soraya Miranda.
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Kendji Girac’s companion came out of silence to refute what she had read and heard about his health and the circumstances of the accident, and to assure that she would accompany him throughout his convalescence which could last several more months.
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