Comedian Pierre Palmade will be tried for “unintentional injuries” after a serious road accident in 2023

The investigating judge did not follow the prosecution’s requests, which also called for prosecution for “involuntary manslaughter”. A choice regretted by the victims.

Pierre Palmade will be judged by a criminal court, announced the public prosecutor of Melun (Seine-et-Marne), Monday May 27. The comedian is being prosecuted for causing “unintentional injuries” in a serious traffic accident, while he was under the influence of narcotics, on February 10, 2023 in Villiers-en-Bière (Seine-et-Marne).

In addition to the actor, the accident left three seriously injured: a 38-year-old man, his 6-year-old son and his 27-year-old sister-in-law, who lost the child she was expecting in the collision. Expertise in accidentology “attributes exclusively the cause of the accident”.

The investigating judge did not take up all of the prosecution’s requisitions, which wanted Pierre Palmade to also be prosecuted for “involuntary manslaughter” after the loss of this baby. But a panel of experts concluded that he had died before he was born.

The victims “obviously deplore this choice, in view of the elements of the file (…), but also in view of the most basic decency and humanity”, reacted their lawyer, Mourad Battikh, in a press release sent to AFP. In pleading in favor of prosecution for “manslaughter”, “the civil parties and the public prosecutor had nevertheless initiated a bold dynamic to develop positive law and make it more humane”he judges.

During his first appearance interrogation before the investigating judge, Pierre Palmade said to himself “disaster” the consequences of the accident for the victims.

The comedian is in a state of legal recidivism “for having already been convicted of an offense narcotics legislation, specifies the press release. He faces up to 14 years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros.