The days of the 54-year-old actor and director are no longer in danger, his family announced in a statement to AFP.

Pierre Palmade had been admitted the day before "in serious condition at the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital" and "placed in intensive care", according to the same source.

Saturday afternoon, the parquet floor of Melun indicated that the pregnant woman had lost her child, without further details on the condition of the other victims.

According to a source close to the investigation, this resident of Seine-et-Marne, aged around 30, was in the car hit in the opposite direction with her brother-in-law, the driver, and the son of the latter. , six years old.

An investigation was opened for "homicide and involuntary injuries by driver resulting in total incapacity for work for more than three months" and entrusted to the Melun police station.

The results of the toxicological analyzes will be known at the end of the day, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The relatives of Pierre Palmade "are thinking of the people affected during this accident and are waiting for reassuring news", said his family.

The accident took place on Friday around 7:00 p.m., on the D372, near Villiers-en-Bière, in the south of Seine-et-Marne.

"From the first investigations carried out, it appeared that a vehicle driven by comedian Pierre Palmade would have collided head-on with a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction which was transporting a man and a pregnant woman, as well as a 6-year-old child", reported the prosecutor of Melun, Jean-Michel Bourlès.

"A third vehicle would have hit that of this family, in the context of an additional accident", continues Mr. Bourlès.

According to a police source at AFP, witnesses reported that two passengers in their twenties in Pierre Palmade's car had fled after the collision.

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Investigations are underway to confirm their presence, said the Melun prosecution.

Friday evening, the pregnant woman and the driver, like Pierre Palmade, were transported by helicopter to the hospital.

Their vital prognosis, and that of the 6-year-old child who was evacuated by road, were engaged in the evening.

Pierre Palmade "was conscious when help arrived," said the prosecution.

An 80-year-old man was slightly injured.

He was in the third vehicle that hit the family car.

“We hope to hear from people quickly, hoping that they will get out of it without too serious consequences,” a source close to the investigation told AFP.

Father of a whole generation of comedians, Pierre Palmade has established himself as a figure of the one-man-show and private theatre.

He is a familiar face on the small screen and has starred in a dozen movies.

With his exorbitant gaze, his pointed profile, his silhouette all in legs and arms, he conquered a large audience, chaining successes with his one-on-stage, his boulevard plays ("If it was to be done again", "Pierre et Fils", "Le Comique") and television audience records ("Les Fugueuses", "Le grand restaurant").

Companion of the night and his excesses, Pierre Palmade was sentenced in 1995 for cocaine consumption.

In 2019, he was taken into custody for "use and acquisition of narcotics" after being falsely accused of rape.

At the end of the first confinement, he returned to the stage of the Théâtre du Marais in Paris to play "Assume, brothel!".

An echo of his own life, he who never hid his long journey towards the acceptance of his homosexuality.

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