THE DESCENT INTO HELL BY PIERRE PALMADE

Pierre Palmade was already sentenced in 2019 for acquiring drugs. As such, he does not incur 20 years of criminal imprisonment.

No specific memory

In front of the investigators, the comedian admitted to having consumed cocaine and synthetic drugs before taking the wheel. The actor was under the influence of 3-MMC at the time of the accident, a drug often used during “chemsex” practices in which the actor regularly indulged.

"However, he explained that he had no precise memory of the circumstances of the accident," said Jean-Michel Bourlès. The investigation will have to determine why he suddenly and brutally changed lanes to hit the Renault Mégane head-on.

On Sunday February 19, the Paris prosecutor's office also announced that it had opened an investigation into suspicions of possession of pornographic images, following a report from a man posing as one of his acquaintances. The Brigade for the Protection of Minors (BPM) was in charge of the investigation.

After spending nearly 48 hours in police custody, a liberty and detention judge issued house arrest with the wearing of an electronic bracelet.

Pierre Palmade has been sleeping since Friday in the addiction service of the Paul-Brousse hospital in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne). He cannot leave it for the time being and the summons is valid for a period of six months.

The Melun prosecution said it had appealed this decision. A hearing before the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal will soon have to rule on a possible incarceration.

As for the two passengers who were in his car the evening of the accident, they were both placed under the status of assisted witness. If they are not indicted at this stage, Mohcine E.-A, 33, and Sambou G., 34, are indeed accused of "non-assistance to a person in danger".

Facts

A very serious road accident involved comedian Pierre Palmade on February 10, 2023. The actor was driving his car on the D372, near Villiers-en-Bière (Seine-et-Marne), when he hit an oncoming vehicle. On board, a man, a pregnant woman and a six-year-old child.

Two passengers in the actor's car fled.

The three passengers will be transported to the hospital very seriously injured, the 38-year-old driver is admitted with a vital prognosis and still in a coma.

Her 6-year-old son woke up with a broken jaw that will require several surgeries. As for the driver's sister-in-law, a young woman of 27, she lost the child she was carrying.

She was six and a half months pregnant. Friday, Jean-Michel Bourlès, the public prosecutor of Melun, indicated that the autopsy had not made it possible to establish if this child was born alive. An additional expertise was ordered on this point.

Recognized as a comedian

At the age of 19, he left the bourgeois comfort of Bordeaux – where he was born on March 23, 1968 – to go to Paris. Already, he wrote sketches - Sweet, Salty -, was noticed during the Night of the theater (1987).

His first steps, he took them in 1988 in the FR3 show, La Classe, alongside Michèle Laroque and Muriel Robin, who took him under their wings They became friends and Palmade wrote the following year for Muriel Robin, Cheerleaders hide to die, let her play Tintamarre. His success earned him a nomination for the Molières.

After the decade of the 1980s marked by comedians whose political satires fall under the register of protest buffoonery, Palmade confirms on stage by drawing from everyday life the traits of a comic character and situation. In 1991, he wrote a play for Jacqueline Maillan, Piece mounted.

After many successes in one-man-show (My mother really likes what I do, We know each other?

Come see me on occasion), he triumphs with Michèle Laroque in two shows written with his accomplice Muriel Robin: They love each other (1996) and They loved each other (2001). These shows will be nominated several times for the Molières and the Victoires de la Musique.

He also writes for other artists such as Jean-Marie Bigard, Mimie Mathy and Guy Bedos. He inspires and co-writes in particular all the sketches of Muriel Robin's one-woman-shows. In 1995, he wrote and acted in the play My Sister is a Chic Guy with Dominique Lavanant, and wrote the dialogues for the film Pédale douce (1996).

From 1993 to 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2020 and 2021, he also participated in Les Enfoirés shows.

In 1998, he played the role of the bard Assurancetourix in Asterix and Obelix against Caesar.

In 2001, he released the single J'te flashe, j'te love, written with Jean-Michel Jarre. But, after his show My first goodbyes (2000), his desires are more for comedy: Help, I am 30 years old! (2004), Three Fathers at Home (2004), etc.

Everything seems easy to Pierre Palmade, whose falsely good humor, sometimes grating, is in tune with the times.

At 37, Pierre Palmade decided to “change his life”.

He created a workshop, the Troupe à Palmade, which brought together around thirty talents and thus staged Brice Hillairet and Cédric Cizaire in They play Palmade, on the Point-Virgule stage.

In the meantime, he is writing Fugueuses, a tailor-made comedy for Line Renaud and Muriel Robin and preparing for his return to the Fontaine theater with his troupe in Le Comique, which evokes his unbridled life which will have a sequel with Le Fils du comic. He also finds the time to host on France 3 Made in Palmade, a program that quickly ends for lack of audience.

Homosexuality, chemsex...

Twelve years after his coming out, Pierre Palmade lived his homosexuality badly, to the point of writing during confinement a play on the subject, Assume brothel!, in which he revealed his discomfort.

"The guys I slept with are long gone, leaving me to sort things out on my own. Thanks guys! Can I blame them? I'm not sure."

And tried to assume "I would not like it to become a business. My sexuality does not make my artistic identity, I exist for other things fortunately. It is a question of living this homosexuality well. When we was raised like me, in the 1980s, in a somewhat bourgeois city, it wasn't always easy, but here it is, even if it leaves traces."

In 2020, out of 450,000 targeted controls, one in five was positive for narcotics, mostly young men. This risky behavior is increasingly widespread, despite the strong messages of prevention campaigns.

On the road, one in three fatal accidents in France today is caused by the consumption of narcotics. The most detected substances are cannabis, which alters reflexes, and cocaine, a stimulant.

In 2022, more than 700 people would have died as a result of accidents involving the use of cocaine or cannabis.

Need we remind you that drug trafficking and consumption are prohibited in France ?