Pierre Palmade: cocaine and chemsex at the heart of the investigation into his accident

A search was launched this Sunday at the home of Pierre Palmade, following the serious road accident in which he was involved on Friday evening. While his car is allegedly involved and a pregnant woman lost her baby in the collision, cocaine and other chemsex-type drugs are at the heart of the investigation…

[Mis à jour le 12 février 2023 à 14h26] After the serious car accident of Pierre Palmade, which occurred at the end of the day on Friday, the investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy, which took a baby away from his pregnant mother, continues. Several media report this Sunday, February 12 that a search was launched at the home of the actor, in Seine-et-Marne.

Pierre Palmade, who was himself seriously injured in the accident and is still hospitalized, tested positive to cocaine and substitution drugs – with recent use compared to the time of the accident -, saccording to several media, including Le Parisien and BFM TV.

According BFM-TV, Pierre Palmade would have partied for 24 hours before the accident and would have consumed various drugs, in particular of the “chemsex type”. Chemsex, a combination of “chemical” and “sex”, is a practice associating sexual relations and drugs supposed to amplify the pleasure of the partners. During these 24 hours, Pierre Palmade would have been accompanied by four young people to his home. The accident allegedly happened when he wanted to go buy food, with two people who were present at his home. Pierre Palmade should be heard under police custody as soon as his health makes a hearing possible.

It was around 6:45 p.m. on Friday February 10 when the accident that involved Pierre Palmade took place on departmental road 372, which connects Dammarie-les-Lys to Villiers-en-Bière, in Seine-et-Marne. According to information from Parisian, Pierre Palmade’s car, a Peugeot 3008, allegedly hit a second vehicle, a Renault Mégane, in which was a pregnant woman, her brother and her six-year-old child. A third car, a Twingo driven by an 80-year-old man, then appeared and hit one of the two vehicles already in the accident.

According to witnesses cited by The Parisian, the car at the wheel of which Pierre Palmade was driving would have deported to the left lane, where the vehicle driven by the pregnant woman was arriving in the opposite direction. Witnesses claim to have seen two people get out of the vehicle driven by Pierre Palmade and flee after the collision. These two men, who would be in their twenties, could be prosecuted for failure to assist a person in danger.

Pierre Palmade had a valid driver’s license. According to the first elements of the investigation, he would have lost control of his vehicle on a straight line. The comedian tested positive for cocaine and substitution drugs. The alcohol test was negative.

The investigation opened for unintentional injuries was reclassified on Saturday as “homicide and unintentional injuries by driver resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months”.

A video of the three cars involved in the accident was revealed on social networks by a journalist. We see the carcasses of the vehicles, from which the victims had to be extricated. The RD372 had to be temporarily closed. About twenty firefighters had to intervene on the spot. At their side, three medical teams from Samu also had to move in order to extract the victims stuck in two of the vehicles.

Saturday, February 11, the family of Pierre Palmade has confirmed that the vital prognosis of the comedian was no longer engaged. The actor “has been placed in intensive care. His days are no longer in danger this morning”, wrote his relatives in a press release, taken up by BFM-TV Saturday morning.

After the accident, Pierre Palmade had to be extricated from his vehicle and rushed to the nearest hospital center, the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital, in Val-de-Marne. The vital prognosis of the 54-year-old comedian was then engaged, reported The Parisian during the evening, confirming in passing the information of the Sunday newspaper that Pierre Palmade was in a state of absolute emergency.

Pierre Palmade is not the only victim of this tragic accident. The prefecture of Seine-et-Marne reported on Friday evening a report of “five injured including four serious”. A pregnant woman and her six-year-old child, who were in the second vehicle involved, were also seriously injured.

Saturday, the public prosecutor, Jean-Michel Bourles indicated that the victim lost the child she was carrying. The fourth and last serious victim would be the brother of the pregnant woman, a passenger in the Mégane. The 80-year-old man who was in the third car was said to be slightly injured.

The RD372, where Pierre Palmade’s accident occurred, leads to the town of Cély-en-Bière, where the comedian lives. A house bought shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic, located not far from the Fontainebleau forest, explained in 2020 The Parisian, who had visited the artist in his home. Pierre Palmade’s house is located in an area that the comedian had already known twenty years earlier, when Muriel Robin had invested in the area and had “asked him to be his neighbor”.

According The Parisian, a search took place, Sunday, February 12, at the home of the artist. The investigators, accompanied by a dog from the narcotics brigade, took over the premises in the morning, around 10:30 a.m. On the spot, they did not find the two wanted men who would have fled at the time of the accident. The track followed at this stage would be that of a party organized at Pierre Palmade’s in the 24 hours preceding the accident in the presence of four young people and embellished with “chemsex”, a practice combining drugs and sexual relations.

Pierre Palmade, the accomplice of Muriel Robin and Michèle Laroque

Born on March 23, 1968 in Bordeaux, Pierre Palmade made a name for himself in the 80s with one-man shows such as “My mother really likes what I do”, “Do we know each other?”, “Passez me see on occasion”, but also shows put on with his accomplices Muriel Robin and Michèle Laroque: “They love each other” in 1996, and “They are loved”, in 2001. Shows nominated several times at the Molières and the Victoires de la Musique.

Father of a whole generation of comedians, Pierre Palmade is above all a figure of the one-man-show and private theatre. He’s a familiar face on TV and has starred in a dozen films. Known for his addiction problems, on which he has spoken publicly several times, the comedian was sentenced in 2019 to a fine of 1,500 euros for the use and possession of narcotics, with the obligation of a therapeutic injunction.