The Court of Appeal of Paris decided on Monday to place the comedian Pierre Palmade in provisional detention after having been responsible for a serious road accident on 10 February under the influence of cocaine in Seine-et-Marne, announced the public prosecutor.
The collision left three seriously injured in Seine-et-Marne, including a pregnant woman who lost her baby, the 54-year-old comedian is under investigation for manslaughter and unintentional injury by a driver who used drugs in a state of legal recidivism.
On February 17 in Melun, the judge had placed him under house arrest with an electronic bracelet in the toxicology department of the hospital he was staying. However, this decision was challenged on Friday before the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal by the public prosecutor, who had requested that the comedian be placed in pre-trial detention.
On Monday, the investigating chamber of the court of appeal followed the prosecution and issued a detention warrant, announced the public prosecutor Rémy Heitz. "The implementation of this warrant is now the responsibility of the public prosecutor at the judicial court of Melun, to which it will be transmitted with the decision immediately enforceable," said Heitz in a statement.
Hospitalized in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), Palmade was the victim of a stroke late Saturday, said AFP his entourage, confirming the information of several medias. He was transferred to the hospital of Kremlin-Bicêtre, confirmed to AFP a source close to the case.
According to the latest information on their state of health communicated by the prosecutor's office, the driver of the vehicle hit by Palmade and his son are still hospitalized in a serious condition.
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Since the accident and the many revelations on Palmade's life in the media, no one in his inner circle has spoken, except one of his sisters.
In a statement, she said on 14 February that he was "ashamed" and "will assume all the consequences of his actions, with the terrible awareness that he will never be able to repair the harm he has done.
The director of the Grévin Museum in Paris, which houses wax reproductions of celebrities, announced on Thursday the withdrawal of the statue of the comedian. A decision which "was necessary" according to him "by respect" for the victims of the accident but "also because of the last developments of the investigation".
