Did Pierre Palmade, when he had consumed synthetic drugs 30 minutes before hitting the road, insist on driving on the evening of February 10, when he caused a tragic accident on a road in Seine et Marne ? According to our information, this is in any case the meaning of the statements that Mohcine E. delivered to the investigators after his arrest, Wednesday February 15 in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine). Friend of Pierre Palmade for several years, this 33-year-old young man had, according to his story to the police, arrived the same morning at the comedian’s house in Cély-en-Bière.
After a day of drug use, the actor, Sambou G. and Mohcine – both were placed under the status of assisted witness for “non-assistance to persons in danger” after quickly leaving the scene of the accident — would have decided to take Pierre Palmade’s car to go shopping in a Carrefour store located less than 8 km from his country house. According to Mohcine E., the actor had just taken drugs. The comedian would then, despite the proposals of Sambou G. to take the wheel, insisted on driving himself to the supermarket…
It was during this short trip that, around 6:45 p.m., the vehicle driven by Pierre Palmade swerved, hitting a family’s vehicle head-on. The driver of this car and his 6-year-old son are still hospitalized in intensive care in serious condition. Business outing, the driver’s sister, six months pregnant, lost the child she was carrying. New expertise is underway to determine if the child was born alive after the emergency caesarean performed on the victim or if he was already dead. These clinical examinations should make it possible to refine the proceedings initiated against Pierre Palmade, at this stage indicted for “aggravated homicide and involuntary injuries”.
“The Palmade affair” is not necessarily over for Mohcine E. and Sambou G.
During his various hearings, the actor currently under house arrest in the addictology department of Villejuif hospital explained that he did not remember the accident, but admitted to having used drugs during the day spent in his second home with his friends. A timetable confirmed by the exploitation of videos, which also allowed the investigators to confirm that Mohcine E. Sambou G. had gone back to the artist’s home after leaving the scene of the accident. The two men claim to have simply come to collect their belongings from Pierre Palmade’s house.
If they emerged free from the court of Melun, “the Palmade case” is not necessarily over for the two men. Like the comedian, Mohcine E. and Sambou G. should in the future be questioned as part of another investigation opened by the Melun prosecution. Entrusted to the gendarmes, these investigations for “breach of the narcotics legislation” aim to discover who supplied the artist and his friends with narcotics, and in particular cocaine or 3-MMC, a synthetic drug in particular consumed within the framework of chemsex parties.
A practice on which Pierre Palmade was questioned by the police. Without using this term, the artist mentioned the existence of sexual relations with his friends on drugs. Despite drug use, admitted by Pierre Palmade and his two friends, no narcotics had surprisingly been discovered at the artist’s home during the search carried out the day after the accident.
