The appeal once morest the house arrest of comedian Pierre Palmade following his serious road accident, when the prosecution had requested pre-trial detention, will be heard on Friday by the Paris Court of Appeal, the Attorney General announced on Monday. .
“The case will be called before the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal on February 24, 2023, at 9 a.m.,” Rémy Heitz said in a statement.
The actor was assigned Friday to the addiction service of a hospital under an electronic bracelet. The Melun prosecutor’s office, which had requested temporary detention, appealed once morest this decision of the judge of freedoms and detention.
The taxi which transported the two passengers of Pierre Palmade following the accident testifies: “They had a strange behavior”
Pierre Palmade, 54, has sparked a legal and media storm since the car he was driving on February 10, following consuming cocaine and synthetic drugs, collided with a vehicle arriving opposite on a departmental road in the Seine -et-Marne.
The collision left three seriously injured in the same family: a man, his 6-year-old son and his pregnant sister-in-law, who lost her baby.
Presented last Friday to an investigating judge at the end of his 48 hours in police custody, the comedian, struggling for years with serious addiction problems, was indicted for homicide and involuntary injuries.
Pierre Palmade accident: the first statements of the comedian during his police custody
At the same time, the Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on Saturday for the possession of child pornography images following a report, which gave rise to searches at the artist’s residences in Paris and Seine-et-Marne. .
Pierre Palmade reportedly explained that he might “sexually dispose” of two children aged 7 and 9