Pierre Palmade was driving under the influence of cocaine when the car he was driving collided with another vehicle on Friday which left, in addition to the star comedian, three seriously injured including a child and a pregnant woman who lost her son. Babe.
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LThe toxicological analyzes have shown that Pierre Palmade was driving under the influence of narcotics (cocaine), ”reported Saturday the public prosecutor of Melun Jean-Michel Bourlès.
An investigation has been opened for homicide and unintentional injuries resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months, by driver under the influence of narcotics, the magistrate said in a press release.
The accident took place on Friday around 7:00 p.m., on the D372, near Villiers-en-Bière, in the south of Seine-et-Marne. “From the first investigations carried out, it was found that a vehicle driven by the comedian Pierre Palmade would have collided head-on with a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction which was transporting a man and a pregnant woman, as well as a six-year-old child”, reported the Melun prosecutor.
“A third vehicle would have hit that of this family, in the context of an additional accident,” he added. Seriously affected during the accident, the days of the 54-year-old actor and director are no longer in danger, his family announced in a statement to AFP. Pierre Palmade had been admitted the day before “in serious condition at the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital” and “placed in intensive care”, according to his relatives.
Companion of the night and his excesses, 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.
The pregnant woman has lost her child, the Melun prosecutor’s office announced earlier in the day. According to a source close to the investigation, this resident of Seine-et-Marne, aged around 30, was in the car hit in the opposite direction with her brother-in-law, the driver, and the son of the latter. , six years old. Their health conditions were not specified.
Fleeing passengers?
Relatives of Pierre Palmade “are thinking of the people affected during this accident and are waiting for reassuring news”, said his family. According to a police source, witnesses reported that two passengers in their twenties in Pierre Palmade’s car had fled after the collision. Investigations are underway to confirm their presence at the time of the accident, said the Melun prosecution.