Pierre Palmade’s home in Cély-en-Bière, Seine-et-Marne, was searched on Sunday, two days after the serious road accident which involved the comedian, who tested positive for cocaine, a source said. close to the survey. Started in the morning, the search ended in the afternoon, according to the same source, confirming information from the Parisian. Twenty police and gendarmes were mobilized.
The days of Pierre Palmade, seriously injured, were no longer in danger on Saturday, according to his family. On the other hand, no information was available on Sunday on the state of health of three other people seriously injured in the accident. A man in his forties, his thirty-year-old sister-in-law and the driver’s six-year-old son were transported on Friday evening with a vital prognosis to various hospitals in the Paris region. The woman, pregnant, lost her baby.
Already a conviction for drug use
The public prosecutor of Melun Jean-Michel Bourlès announced on Saturday that the comedian had tested positive for cocaine. “The toxicological analyzes showed that Pierre Palmade was driving under the influence of narcotics (cocaine)”, he wrote in a press release.
An investigation was opened for homicide and involuntary injuries resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months, by driver under the influence of narcotics. The accident took place on Friday around 7 p.m. on the D372, near Villiers-en-Bière, in the south of Seine-et-Marne.
According to the first elements of the investigation cited by the prosecutor, the vehicle driven by Pierre Palmade collided with the vehicle traveling in front. Pierre Palmade had already been sentenced in 1995 for cocaine consumption. In 2019, he was taken into custody for “use and acquisition of narcotics” after being falsely accused of rape.