The former police officer and inmate of the “VIP” quarters of the Santé prison suggested that the comedian be protected in prison in a quarter for vulnerable inmates.
Currently placed in prison in his hospital room for health reasons, Pierre Palmade will join a remand center as soon as the doctors give the green light.
The Paris Court of Appeal has indeed requested the provisional detention of the actor, with a warrant, in connection with the serious road accident he had caused on February 10 under the influence of cocaine. A future detention in a penitentiary center considered dangerous without protection by Michel Neyret, a former police officer convicted of corruption and criminal association and ex-detainee of the “VIP” quarters of the prison of Health.
“Given his case, Pierre Palmade would be in great danger in prison” without being in a secure area, he said on BFMTV on Monday evening.
These “VIP” neighborhoods are “specific” units which make it possible to protect detainees from the rest of the criminal population”, recalled Joaquim Pueyo, former director of the prisons of Fresnes and Fleury-Mérogis, now PS mayor of Alençon.
Isolated to “survive”
In these cells, the defendants, isolated, have “no contact with detention”, according to Michel Neyret.
Asked regarding BFMTV, Christophe Rocancourt, sometimes nicknamed as “the swindler of the stars” in the media, also reacted to the announcement of the actor’s pre-trial detention.
For the former detainee at the prison of Health, VIP district or not, “the prison remains the prison”. But “the only difference is that if we put Pierre Palmade in a general population, (…) he would not survive. (…) He would not last five minutes.”