Pierre Palmade is 24 years old when, at the end of a night washed out in Saint-Tropez, Johnny Hallyday offers to take him, on a motorcycle, in his villa. It is 6 am. “And there I say to myself:” we are going to die “, because he drives, let’s say, of ethyl matter”, says the humorist at the microphone of “laughter and song” in 2020. “We will say:” Johnny is dead , he accompanied someone “, and my death will go completely unnoticed.” General marrade in the studio.
Pierre Palmade was not dead this February 10, on a departmental in Seine-et-Marne. But a 6 -year -old child is disfigured, a mother lost her baby and a 40 -year -old man is still in a coma. While 700 people are killed each year in road accidents linked to drug taking, this tragically banal drama has not gone unnoticed.
Hours of antenna on continuous news channels and on public service, dozens of digested archive videos, a lynching in good standing on social networks, and an interior minister who makes advertisement. What is now called the “Pierre Palmade affair” seems to have swallowed up everything in its path, of the war pension reform in Ukraine. Each day brings its share of twists and revelations used to feed the comments machine.
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In this story with drawers, everyone projects their fears, their fantasies and its obsessions, signs of a society considered to be sick: drugs, mental disorders, prostitution, the star system, justice deemed defaulting, pedocrime , and even immigration and the status of the fetus. On the television sets have succeeded addictologists, former followers of chemsex, specialized lawyers, former magistrates, people journalists, notorious populists and amateur jurists. BFM-TV and “Touche pas à mon poste” were even Discover a young lover of the star of the 1990s , telling by the menu his intimate relationships with the fallen humorist. As often in this type of business, “exclusive” testimonies are collected: the neighbor of the artist found him polished; The baker of Cély-en-Bière (Seine-et-Marne) confirms that he bought her pastries; The taxi driver who led the two fugitives to Paris explains that they did not go word during the journey.
ambient cacophony
In this ambient cacophony, where any reasonable and nuanced comment is irreparably swept, remain the images. That run in a loop. Those of a car carcass, a search body searched, from Pierre Palmade coming out of police custody. And The photo of the 6 year old child on his hospital bed , transmitted by the family at BFM-TV.
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