Three days after the appalling road accident caused by Pierre Palmade, the vital prognosis of one of the victims, a six-year-old child, was still engaged on Monday evening.
The two other people present on board the car hit by that of the comedian are now out of danger.
But the passenger, six months pregnant, lost her unborn child.
The driver, a man in his forties, underwent heart surgery over the weekend at Beaujon Hospital in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine.
Aware when help arrived, Pierre Palmade had been hospitalized at Kremlin-Bicêtre, in Val-de-Marne, with a vital prognosis.
By Monday, his condition had stabilized.
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According to the first elements of the investigation, Friday February 10 around 7 p.m., Pierre Palmade's car was driving on the departmental road D372, not far from Villiers-en-Bière in Seine-et-Marne.
At the wheel, the actor is then about eight kilometers from his residence, in Cély-en-Bière, where he would have partied for nearly 24 hours.
His car suddenly veered into the left lane, hitting an oncoming vehicle.
Inside it are the driver, his son and his pregnant sister-in-law.
A third car, driven by an octogenarian, subsequently crashed into that of the family, causing an additional accident.
Supported by the emergency services, this fourth victim was more slightly injured.
An investigation, entrusted to the Melun police station, was opened for "homicide and involuntary injuries resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months, by driver under the influence of narcotics".
The offense of manslaughter can be punished by five years' imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros, but this sentence can be increased to up to seven years' imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 euros in the event of an aggravating circumstance such as than drug driving.
However, the toxicological analyzes carried out on Pierre Palmade revealed that the actor was driving under the influence of cocaine, indicated the public prosecutor of Melun, Jean-Michel Bourlès.
The comedian's phone being operated
According to several witnesses, two people who were on board the comedian's Peugeot 3008 fled after the collision.
Filmed moving away from the road by the on-board camera of a motorist present at the scene of the tragedy according to
Le Parisien
, these two young men were actively sought after on Monday and could be prosecuted for "failure to assist anyone in danger.” Interior Ministry spokeswoman Camille Chaize called on the fugitives to surrender.
“It is important in the context of the judicial investigation (…).
You have to be able to hear them to really put the facts together
,” she said.
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Pierre Palmade's phone was also seized as part of another investigation opened for "breach of drug legislation", the
Melun prosecutor told Le
Figaro .
This other procedure is related to the possession and consumption of cocaine by the actor.
Syringes were reportedly found at his home.
Unlike the first investigation related to the road accident, the investigations were entrusted to the gendarmerie, which today holds the phone of the actor.
This one, in the course of exploitation, could bring invaluable information concerning the hours which preceded the accident.
And perhaps lead the investigators to the fugitives, who could be, according to
Le Parisien
, former escort-boys met by the artist on social networks.