Sentenced to five years in prison, including two years for involuntary injuries, the actor and comedian was imprisoned this Monday in Bordeaux.
Pierre Palmade was incarcerated this Monday, December 9, according to information from BFM TV confirmed by the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office to Le Parisien. The 56-year-old comedian and actor was sentenced on November 20 to five years’ imprisonment, including two years’ imprisonment, after being found guilty of a violent road accident in Seine-et-Marne which left three people seriously injured. (and caused a pregnant woman to lose her unborn child) in 2023. The actor had decided not to appeal the conviction.
More than two weeks after his conviction, Pierre Palmade was placed in an isolation unit at Bordeaux-Gradignan prison, in Gironde. According to information from Figarothese would be “dirty and unsanitary places plagued by drug trafficking”. Once incarcerated, Pierre Palmade will be able to request a sentence modification for the two years in prison to which he was sentenced.
This request must then be submitted for the decision of a sentence enforcement judge after an adversarial hearing. His three-year suspended sentence is subject to an obligation of care and work. The actor says he has been abstinent for several months, and has already started psychotherapy since September 2023.
Three seriously injured
The 10th February 2023, Pierre Palmade took the car after three days of using drugs without sleeping. His vehicle hit a car traveling in the opposite lane, in Seine-et-Marne. A 38-year-old man, his six-year-old son and his 27-year-old sister-in-law yearswho lost her unborn daughter, were seriously injured following the impact. The actor tested positive for drugs and was tried for involuntary injuries.
Since the accident, Pierre Palmade has suffered a stroke then aHe relapsed in a nightclub in Bordeaux before treating his addiction. He says he has been sober “for 17 months”, and no longer has a job, now living off the royalties from his sketches. During the trial, he considered the idea of continuing to write for others, not considering returning to the stage after his judgment.