Drugs in show business are no secret. Since the 1990s, an illicit substance has also become the queen of the evenings of the French jet set and the whole world: cocaine. It is in this environment that the comedian Pierre Palmade and many other personalities of the French audiovisual landscape have been built and have evolved over the past thirty years.
There terrible tragedy which occurred on February 10, revealed the shortcomings of certain media personalities. The car accident caused by Pierre Palmade while driving under thenarcotic grip put a blow in the fed up and opened the discussions on the presence of drugs in the world of show biz. This omerta on these evenings sprinkled with cocaine and other illicit substances breaks little by little. Years of consumption for the humorist Pierre Palmade which are not without consequences. It is in the columns of magazine Marianne from this Thursday, March 2, 2023 that we learn a little more about the sad reality of the night world and on these personalities who were part of the favorite numbers of the Drug Squad.
While the comedian has tried for many years to get out of this descent into hell, he did more than 5 detox cures, yet he never managed to go through with it. A relative reveals in the magazine Marianne : “A hundred times, Pierre promised that he would quit drugs. A hundred times he went to the Clinique Montsouris, a hundred times he left after two days… “Disappointment after disappointment for all of his relatives who knew very well that if the situation continued, “it had to end badly“. It all starts in the 1990s when cocaine gradually replaces heroin and becomes the new trendy item for Parisian evenings. Jean-Paul Mégret, the secretary general of the Independent Union of Police Commissioners (SICP) declares for the magazine: “People imagine that it does not immediately make you addicted and that you do not run the risk of overdose. It passes for a kind of “clean” drug“. It is in this context that the fight against this scourge begins and that the Narcotics Brigade takes things in hand, many surprises await them.
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“Beautiful people” at the Stups Brigade
A former police commissioner in the service of the BS remembers in the columns of Marianne: “We put bugging the landlines of dealers and we tracked their delivery men…» A technique that has made it possible to flush out a lot of big names and “beautiful worldas this former commissioner likes to say. Very quickly certain personalities stand out:In the early days of notebooks, Joey Starr’s ended in “1515”. So when we examined the fadettes of a dealer, we quickly saw if the “1515” was on the list or not“.
At that time, when the police got their hands on a network of drug dealers, they needed testimony to assess the extent of the problem. It is in this context that manyrich customers» or « people» were summoned to submit their minutes. Wishing to be as discreet as possible to preserve their image, these showbiz stars went to the premises of the Stups Brigade on “discrete schedules “. This was also the case of a famous host of TF1 who meanwhilescrolls in the early morning» and who without resentment saluted the whole brigade at each of his hearings reveals the commissioner. An incredible situation that still makes the man smile so many years later.