Alongside the investigation into the February road accident caused by Pierre Palmade who was driving under the influence of drugs, three young men were being prosecuted for selling and delivering drugs at the time of the collision.
They were the suppliers of the adrift comedian’s drug orgies: two Pierre Palmade dealers were sentenced Monday, November 20 by the Melun court to sentences of up to one year in prison for drug trafficking.
In a subsidiary procedure to the investigation into the dramatic road accident caused on February 10 in Seine-et-Marne by Pierre Palmade who was driving under the influence of drugs, three young men, identified from the artist’s telephone, were prosecuted for sale and delivery of drugs at the time of the collision.
After a four-hour hearing, two of them, aged 21 and 32, and with previously clean criminal records, were sentenced, the first to a one-year suspended sentence and the second to one year. prison sentence with continued detention. A third defendant, aged 22, suspected of having been a simple deliveryman, was acquitted of this charge.
At the time of the accident, which left three people seriously injured in a car approaching, “we hurried to go to Carrefour to withdraw money because (one of the dealers) had to deliver 3MMC (a synthetic drug) and cocaine to me”Pierre Palmade told investigators, according to his statements read at the hearing.
Opposing the description of a “large-scale” case made by the prosecution, which had required up to three years in prison, the defense of the defendants took aim at an “excessive” investigation in terms of means mobilized as impact. “This case is only important for the notoriety of the drug addict who is involved in this affair”summarized Me Grégory Bensadoun.