While a man suspected of being one of the passengers in Pierre Palmade’s vehicle in the accident last Friday was arrested, the second should surrender according to BFM.
[Mis à jour le 15 février 2023 à 13h54] The two fugitives found? In any case, this is what the latest developments in the Palmade affair seem to indicate on Wednesday, February 15. In the morning, a 33-year-old man was arrested, suspected of being one of the two passengers in Pierre Palmade’s vehicle on the run since the accident last Friday. The second would have let it be known, through his lawyer, that he was going to surrender “soon”, we learn BFM-TV.
For now, we know little about this second man on the run. The first, arrested this morning, was arrested, as was his landlady, in Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine). He was apparently not known to the police until then. Will this arrest allow the investigators to move forward, five days after the car accident? The two individuals concerned risk prosecution for “non-assistance to persons in danger”. These two tracks seem more serious than that of the 47-year-old homeless man arrested on Tuesday who had finally confessed to having lied.
Indeed, this arrest comes the day after an incredible affair where an individual claimed to be one of the passengers of the comedian, before confessing to the authorities having lied. According to information from BFM TV, he made a bet with an acquaintance and pretended to be one of the men on the run. He was found drunk overnight from Monday to Tuesday and questioned by the authorities to verify the veracity of his statements. According to several witnesses to the Pierre Palmade accident, two men in their twenties fled just after the accident, which left four seriously injured including the comedian, a pregnant woman who lost her baby, her brother-in-law and a six-year-old child.
Former escort boys
The two men who had been on the run since the accident are said to be former escort boys. Pierre Palmade would have met them on social networks. They would then have bonded “around regular relations based on the party”. They had been staying with the comedian in Cély-en-Bière since February 9, according to information from the Parisian. It seems that a party would have been organized at the comedian’s home in the 24 hours preceding the accident at the comedian’s with four other people.
The fugitives were filmed
The two men who had been on the run since the Pierre Palmade accident had been filmed. Motorists who witnessed the collision were able to film the scene using their vehicle’s on-board camera. They provided these images to the investigators, in which we can see two men walking away from the scene of the accident, relays Le Parisien. The Melun prosecutor’s office had also requested that the films of the video surveillance system of the municipality of Cély-en-Bière be requisitioned, in order to follow their itinerary. Did the two men who fled go back to Pierre Palmade? Witnesses claim in any case to have crossed two men, hoods on their heads, heading towards the town of Cély-en-Bière where the comedian’s residence is located. Their hearing should tell us more about their journey.