Three people were in the car hit from the front by that of Pierre Palmade on Friday. Among them, a pregnant woman who lost her baby, and who told her memories of the accident to her lawyer, Mourad Battikh.
A “traumatic” memory. Mourad Battikh, the lawyer for the family of the victims of the accident involving Pierre Palmade, was able to speak with the woman who was in the car hit from the front by that of the comedian. He told Tuesday the few memories she has of the accident, which took place on Friday evening February 10.
This woman had visited her in-laws on Friday evening, and her brother-in-law had offered to drive her home. It was in this context that they were driving on the D372 at Villiers-en-Bière, in the south of Seine-et-Marne, when Pierre Palmade, who tested positive for cocaine after the accident, hit their car with his.
Headlights arriving “full face”
The passenger “first remembers the dazzling headlights coming in full face”, explained Mourad Battikh on Tuesday. “She then remembers the swerve given by the driver to try to avoid the vehicle that was rushing into them”.
The woman remembers “getting out of the car, instinctively trying to go to the back to save the passenger”, a 6-year-old boy, the driver’s son, “but collapsing, having no more forces”, described Mourad Battikh.
6 months pregnant at the time of the events, she also thought of the baby she was carrying, she told the lawyer. She underwent an emergency caesarean in the hospital but the fetus could not be saved.
Several broken ribs
The scanner she passed on arriving at the hospital also revealed several broken ribs, “damaged” vertebrae and a sprained neck, reported Mr. Battikh.
“Today, she wants to rebuild” after this “excessively painful and hard test for her”, he insisted.
The driver, 38 years old and father of 3 children, and his 6-year-old son, were still in intensive care late Tuesday afternoon after undergoing operations. For his part, Pierre Palmade “wakes up little by little and realizes the horror of what happened, of what he caused”, said his sister Hélène Palmade on Tuesday, who was able to see him at the hospital.
“He will assume all the consequences of his actions with the terrible awareness that he will never be able to repair the harm he has done,” she said in a statement.
The victims and their relatives replied that they were “insensitive to the apologies presented”, through the voice of their lawyer Mourad Battikh.
