The Melun public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for homicide and involuntary injuries resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months, by driver under the influence of narcotics.
By AFP
Pierre Palmade was taken into police custody on Wednesday afternoon after the serious car accident he caused while driving under the influence of cocaine, as well as two passengers suspected of having fled. “Mr. Palmade was taken into police custody at 1:55 p.m.,” Melun prosecutor Jean-Michel Bourlès told AFP.
The 54-year-old comedian was transferred to Melun hospital to be heard, we learned from a source close to the investigation. According to the first elements of the investigation communicated by the magistrate, the vehicle driven by Pierre Palmade, who had consumed cocaine, struck Friday around 7 p.m. near Villiers-en-Bière, in the south of Seine-et-Marne. , for an as yet undetermined reason, a vehicle coming in front.
The actor and the three occupants of the other vehicle, a man, his 6-year-old child and his sister-in-law, who lost her baby, were seriously injured.
The Melun public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for homicide and involuntary injuries resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months, by driver under the influence of narcotics.
In the morning, one of the two men suspected of having fled from Pierre Palmade’s car after the accident was taken into custody.
The second, whose lawyer had announced to the investigators that he was going to surrender, was placed in police custody in turn at 5:50 p.m., the prosecution said.
The first, a 33-year-old Moroccan unknown to the police, was arrested at dawn at the home of a woman who lodged him in Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine). His host was also arrested.
Witnesses to the crash said two men fled after the collision. According to these witnesses, the two men were in their twenties.
Pierre Palmade has been going straight into the wall since the age of twenty
Intensive care
On Monday, the spokeswoman for the Ministry of the Interior, Camille Chaize, had asked them to “surrender” to “explain the facts”.
Their hearings should allow investigators to understand the reasons for their flight and what they did after the accident, while the search at the home of Pierre Palmade, in Cély-en-Bière (Seine-et-Marne), n did not allow the seizure of narcotics.
“Why did this individual flee the scene of the accident when three individuals were in a state of absolute danger? Was it to hide evidence, drugs? Asked BFMTV Mourad Battikh, the victims’ lawyer, after the arrest of the first suspect in Clichy.
The two men will also be questioned about the circumstances of the accident and the hours that preceded it.
Wednesday morning, two of the three victims of the accident “were still in intensive care”, according to their lawyer Me Mourad Battikh.
The driver “underwent seven operations” while his son, “disfigured”, “is fed by a probe”, detailed the lawyer.
The third victim, a 27-year-old woman, the driver’s sister-in-law, was expecting “her first child”, “a little girl”, whom she lost. The latter was visiting “her in-laws in Villiers-en-Bière”, according to Me Battikh.
At the end of the day, “the brother-in-law offers to take her home” in Essonne. “He will offer him a slightly longer route to avoid speed bumps”, described the lawyer, specifying that the two families were “without history”.
Pierre Palmade, also injured in the accident, was hospitalized in Kremlin-Bicêtre (Val-de-Marne) before being transferred Wednesday afternoon to the Melun hospital center for his hearing.
He is “ashamed” and is ready to assume “the consequences of his actions”, his sister Hélène Palmade said in a press release on Tuesday.
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.
