Comedian Pierre Palmade was incarcerated Monday morning near Bordeaux following his sentence to five years of imprisonment, two of which were closed for a serious road accident under drugs, AFP learned from a source close to the case, confirming information from BFMTV.
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The 56-year-old artist was convicted on November 20, 2024 in Seine-et-Marne for having caused a serious road accident under drugs in this department in February 2023 and was to be imprisoned in the jurisdiction of the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office, his region. of residence. He did not appeal the judgment, making it final.
At the end of a highly publicized trial last month, the Melun court found Pierre Palmade guilty of unintentional injuries to a family in the violent collision he caused on a road while driving under the influence of drugs.
On February 10, 2023, getting behind the wheel after three days of using drugs without sleeping, the actor collided with a car traveling in the opposite lane. Three people were seriously injured by the impact: a 38-year-old man, his six-year-old son and his 27-year-old sister-in-law who, pregnant, had lost – after the impact – the child she was expecting.
Media storm
This tragedy was one of the 52,000 road accidents recorded in mainland France that year. But the notoriety of the popular artist with a sympathetic image will trigger a media storm, revealing the dark side of a man mired in drug addiction.
In accordance with the prosecution’s requisitions, the judges sentenced the comedian and actor to five years in prison, three of which were suspended on probation. For the two years, the court issued a committal warrant with deferred effect.
In prison, Pierre Palmade will be able to “ formulate a request for sentence modification which will be submitted to the decision of a sentence enforcement judge » at the end of an adversarial hearing, recalled the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office the day after the comedian’s conviction.
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