The comedian was involved in a road accident in Seine-et-Marne, in which four other people were injured.
Comedian Pierre Palmade and four other people werevery seriously injured” following a road accident, learned Le Figaro Friday, February 10, confirming information from Sunday newspaper. The pregnant woman injured in the pileup has lost her baby, the prosecution announced on Saturday afternoon. According to information from Parisian confirmed by the prosecution Figaro, the comedian was positive for cocaine. The time and date of the drug intake are unknown at this time. His blood alcohol test was negative.
An investigation, opened forhomicide and unintentional injuries resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months per driver under the influence of narcotics“, was entrusted to the police station of Melun Val-de-Seine. Contacted by Le Figaro, the prosecutor specifies that the prosecution is opening the investigation in the broadest possible framework in order to carry out all the necessary investigative acts. This does not necessarily mean that there will be, in fine, prosecution on these counts. It is not currently known whether the baby that the injured woman lost was alive and viable at birth, which is the criterion for becoming, in the texts of the law, a legal person.
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Around 7 p.m., the 54-year-old actor and director was driving his vehicle on a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne, near Villiers-en-Bière, about fifteen kilometers from his home. of the comedian, when the accident took place. According to the first elements of the investigation, the vehicle he was driving “would have collided head-on with a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction“Said in a press release this Saturday afternoon the public prosecutor of Melun, Jean-Michel Bourles. On board this vehicle was a man and his pregnant sister, as well as a 6-year-old child.
In addition to this collision, a third “vehicle arrives and hits the family vehicle from behind”, said the prosecution on Friday evening. An 80-year-old man, slightly injured, was driving. Screenings for narcotics and alcohol consumption are being analyzed, reports The Parisian .
According to a police source at AFP, two witnesses reported that two passengers in Pierre Palmade’s car fled after the collision. “Investigations are also underway to confirm the presence of passengers in Pierre Palmade’s vehicle who left the scene after the accident.», explains Jean-Michel Bourles.
The shock wasvery violent“, we are told, the vehicles having been “destroyed“. On images broadcast by the journalist of France Televisions Thomas Cuny, we can see the badly damaged vehicles. “Among the five victims, three had to be extricated from their vehicle, including Pierre Palmade”, according to a source familiar with the matter. The actor’s days are no longer in danger this Saturday morning, his family told AFP. The public prosecutor, on the other hand, announced on Saturday afternoon that the woman had lost the child she was carrying.
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Pierre Palmade, 54, was, at the time of the intervention of the emergency services, imprisoned in his vehicle and would suffer at least from a fracture of the femur and the tibia, and possibly from a “internal bleeding“, we are told. The Seine-et-Marne prefecture told AFP of a collision with “strong kinetics”.
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