Five days after the events, French comedian Pierre Palmade was taken into police custody on Wednesday February 15 following the serious road accident he caused in Seine-et-Marne while driving under the influence of cocaine, announced the parquet floor of Melun.

“Mr. Palmade was taken into custody at 1:55 p.m.,” said Melun prosecutor Jean-Michel Bourles, without specifying the place of his custody.

On Friday, the 54-year-old actor was driving his car when he hit another vehicle on the D372 at Villiers-en-Bière (Seine-et-Marne). This accident left three seriously injured: a 27-year-old woman who lost the baby she was expecting, her 38-year-old brother-in-law and his 6-year-old son.

The Melun public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for “homicide and unintentional injuries resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months, by driver under the influence of narcotics”.

Two victims still in intensive care

In the morning, one of the two men suspected of having fled from Pierre Palmade’s car after the accident was taken into custody and the second should soon surrender to investigators, according to police sources familiar with the matter. .

The first, a 33-year-old Moroccan unknown to the police, was arrested at dawn at the home of a woman who lodged him in Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine). His host was also arrested. The lawyer for the other man who presents himself as the second fleeing passenger called the investigators to say that his client was going to surrender.

Witnesses to the crash said two men fled after the collision. According to these witnesses, the two men were in their twenties.

On Monday, interior ministry spokeswoman Camille Chaize asked them to “surrender” to “explain the facts.”

Wednesday morning, two of the three victims of the car hit by that of Pierre Palmade “were still in intensive care”, said their lawyer Me Mourad Battikh, on BFM-TV.

The comedian was also injured in the accident. He expressed his “shame” and is ready to accept “the consequences of his actions,” his sister, Hélène Palmade, said in a statement on Tuesday.