After the arrest of the first passenger in Pierre Palmade’s car on Wednesday morning, the second was taken into custody a few hours later.
[Updated February 15, 2023 at 9:14 p.m.] New twist in the Pierre Palmade case. While a 33-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday, a second individual was taken into custody, according to information from Le Parisien. They are both suspected of being the two passengers of Pierre Palmade’s vehicle on the run since the accident last Friday. For the moment, we know little about this second man arrested by the police.
The first, arrested this morning, was arrested, as was his landlady, in Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine). He was apparently not known to the police until then. Will these arrests allow the investigators to move forward, five days after the car accident? The two individuals concerned risk prosecution for “non-assistance to persons in danger”. These two leads seem more serious than that of the 47-year-old homeless man arrested on Tuesday who finally confessed to lying.
Indeed, this arrest comes the day after an incredible case where an individual claimed to be one of the comedian’s passengers, before confessing to the authorities having lied. According to information from BFM TV, he made a bet with an acquaintance and pretended to be one of the men on the run. He was found drunk overnight from Monday to Tuesday and questioned by the authorities to verify the veracity of his statements. According to several witnesses to the Pierre Palmade accident, two men in their twenties fled just after the accident, which left four seriously injured including the comedian, a pregnant woman who lost her baby, her brother-in-law and a six-year-old child.
The two men who had been on the run since the accident are said to be former escort boys. Pierre Palmade would have met them on social networks. They would then have bonded “around regular relations based on the party”. They had been staying with the comedian in Cély-en-Bière since February 9, according to information from the Parisian. It would seem that a party would have been organized at the comedian’s home in the 24 hours preceding the accident at the comedian’s with four other people.
The two men who had been on the run since the Pierre Palmade accident had been filmed. Motorists who witnessed the collision were able to film the scene using their vehicle’s on-board camera. They provided these images to the investigators, in which we can see two men walking away from the scene of the accident, relays Le Parisien. The Melun prosecutor’s office had also requested that the films of the video surveillance system of the municipality of Cély-en-Bière be requisitioned, in order to follow their route. Did the two men who fled go back to Pierre Palmade? In any case, witnesses claim to have crossed two men, hoods on their heads, heading towards the town of Cély-en-Bière where the comedian’s residence is located. Their hearing should tell us more about their journey.
