The Melun prosecution called on Friday the assignment of the actor in an addictology hospital service, a week after the serious accident he caused under the influence of cocaine.
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A week after the serious road accident that he caused under the influence of cocaine, Pierre Palmade was “assigned under house arrest under an electronic bracelet in an addictology service of a hospital” , according to a press release from the Melun prosecutor’s office, which does not specify if the actor was indicted. The public prosecutor Jean-Michel Bourlès, who had requested his placement in pre-trial detention, added to appeal from the decision rendered by the liberty and detention judge.
Friday, February 10, on a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne, the actor, tested positive at cocaine, led a car that struck another vehicle. Besides the actor, the accident made three seriously injured: a man, his son and his pregnant sister-in-law, who lost his baby. “The driver and his 6 -year -old son are still hospitalized in resuscitation in serious condition,” said Melun prosecutor on Friday.
Pierre Palmade was initially hospitalized at the Kremlin-Bicêtre before being transferred on February 15 to the Melun hospital center to be heard by investigators under the police regime. He “admitted to having consumed cocaine as well as synthetic drugs before taking the wheel” but “said he had no specific memory of the circumstances of the accident,” added the prosecutor in a press release.
Two men placed under the status of assisted witness
Two other men were presented Friday to the investigating judge for “non-assistance to person in danger” and placed by the latter under the status of “assisted witness”: a 33-year-old Moroccan and a 34-year-old Parisian suspected of being the passengers of the car of Pierre Palmade and of having left the premises shortly after the accident.
The first had been arrested in the early morning Wednesday in Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine). The second went to the Melun police station at the end of the afternoon on Wednesday, accompanied by his lawyer. “They confirmed to have fled before the arrival of help. They had also consumed narcotic products,” said the prosecutor, who requested their placement under judicial supervision.
According to the first elements of the survey communicated by the prosecution, the vehicle led by Pierre Palmade had struck on February 10 a car which came in the opposite direction near Villiers-en-Bière, in the south of the Seine-et -Marne, for an indefinite reason.
On this Renault Megane, a 38-year-old Seine-et-Marnais, her six-year-old son and her 27-year-old sister-in-law. The woman’s vital prognosis, six and a half months pregnant at the time of the accident, is no longer engaged. The instruction was opened for “manslaughter” to determine if the child had died before childbirth or if he lived a few seconds before his death. According to Jean-Michel Bourlès, “the autopsy carried out did not make it possible to establish if this child was born alive. Complementary expertise was ordered on this point”.
Pierre Palmade was sentenced in 1995 for cocaine consumption. In 2019, he was placed in police custody for use and acquisition of narcotics after being falsely accused of rape.