Friday February 10, 2023, a dramatic accident occurred at the end of the day on the departmental road RD372 in Villiers-en-Bière (Seine-et-Marne). In a press release, the Melun prosecution said: “from the first investigations carried out, it appeared 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 6-year-old child. third vehicle would have hit that of this family, in the context of an accident “.
Saturday, February 11, we learned that the seven-month pregnant woman, who was in the car hit by that of the actor, lost her child. If the vital prognosis of the ex-husband of Véronique Sanson is no longer engaged just like that of the young woman, this is not the case of the man and the boy. The first is hospitalized at the Beaujon hospital in Clichy, the second at the Necker hospital in Paris.
An investigation, entrusted to the Melun-Val-de-Seine police station, was first opened to “involuntary injuries by driver resulting in incapacity for work exceeding three months”. Then, was requalified for “manslaughter and manslaughter” as announced by the public prosecutor. In addition our colleagues from Parisian learned from a police source that Pierre Palmade would have been positive for cocaine and substitution drugs at the time of the accident.
The comedian faces a heavy sentence
The Public Service website informs us that manslaughter committed by a driver can be punished by 5 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros. If there is an aggravating circumstance, the sentence can be increased to 7 years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros, or even more if other facts are added to the file. In the case of Pierre Palmade, the Penal Code also specifies in its article 221-6-1 that “the penalties are increased to ten years’ imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros when the manslaughter has been committed with two or more of the circumstances mentioned”.
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