Provisional detention of Pierre Palmade: hearing behind closed doors, the comedian absent from the debates

For the serenity of the debates.

This morning the Paris public prosecutor's office and Pierre Palmade's lawyer Céline Lasek made a request for limited publicity of the debates concerning the appeal of the decision to place the comedian under house arrest with an electronic bracelet rather than put him in detention. .

The investigating chamber ruled in a few minutes on the camera.

The latter, like the representatives of the civil parties, were not present at the hearing.

The comedian was presented last Friday to an examining magistrate for an indictment for "

", a week after the serious car accident he caused in Seine-et-Marne under the influence of cocaine.

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The 54-year-old comedian "

" but "

", added Jean-Michel Bourlès, who had requested his placement in pre-trial detention.

A request rejected by the judge of freedoms and detention.

Effort of celerity

Article 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure includes, even in criminal cases, several conditions for deciding on provisional detention: in this case addiction to narcotics and the risk of fraudulent consultations with the two acolytes of Pierre Palmade, but who are also the only visual witnesses of the scene since the victims are not able to express themselves and that the defendant has forgotten everything

The judicial machinery has accelerated for the Palmade case.

The shattered life of an entire family by a cocaine-soaked driver, who is more famous, arouses too many symbols and emotions in public opinion for Justice not to make an effort to be quick.

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Friday, February 17, around 7 p.m., when the decision of the judge of freedom and detention fell to place Pierre Palmade under an electronic bracelet rather than in pre-trial detention, everything therefore began very quickly.

The Melun prosecution takes less than half an hour to decide to appeal, but the Paris Court of Appeal has also taken action.

Even though the Code of Criminal Procedure gives him two months to "

" an appeal and decide.

Here she is shaking up "

" - the calendar of the files of the investigating chamber before which all cases of detention and deprivation of liberty are decided - and decides to hear the case within seven days.

For justice, there is in this file the need to be exemplary, with a case that is becoming more complicated and several satellite files: the road litigation has worsened with narcotics and child pornography files.