Pierre Palmade is currently in pre-trial detention at the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital pending transfer to Fresnes prison. Under what conditions will the comedian be imprisoned? A former director of the prison establishment testifies.
Pierre Palmade is now fixed on his fate. He was officially remanded in custody as ordered by the Paris Court of Appeal on Monday, February 27. Indicted for “manslaughter and manslaughter“, the 54-year-old comedian was initially placed under judicial supervision with an electronic bracelet. It was then removed from him while he was hospitalized for a stroke. Treated at the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital, he was finally locked up from his bed. According to information from Parisian, his room is thus guarded by guards from the Fresnes remand center pending his transfer behind bars. A decision awaiting the agreement of the doctors because of the state of health of the artist. As reported RTL, it’s at Fresnes prisonin the Val-de-Marne, that Pierre Palmade is expected.
Pierre Palmade: how will he be treated in prison?
Over there, what awaits the comedian? Under what conditions will he be incarcerated? Joaquim Pueyo, former director of the prisons of Fresnes and Fleury-Mérogis between 1997 and 2001, confided in the microphone of RTL on the new life of Pierre Palmade. He thus revealed that he will not go to a classic cell. “Normally, he should be oriented in a protection unit. So that he is better supervised, that he is alone in the cell and away from the rest of the penal population for his own protection. When facts are publicized, you have, in the penitentiary establishments of the Paris region and the largest establishments, so-called protection units for the most vulnerable prisoners“he explained, assuring that it is not “not necessarily special treatment“.
“The conditions of detention are the same but these people are alone in the cellhe specified. When you have very vulnerable personalities, you set up special monitoring with extra rounds for their own protection. It’s classic, we do it regularly. This is how, if Pierre Palmade goes to prison, he will be imprisoned and housed“. The former prison director also mentioned of the “systematic consultations” for arrivals in prison and by doctors who depend on the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital. “In the prison itself, there is a specialization unit for psychic care when necessary.“, he added. No preferential treatment therefore for Pierre Palmade.
