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uA brand new stage within the Palmade affair and its aftermath. Two of the drug suppliers for the comic’s orgies had been sentenced by the Melun courtroom on Monday, November 20, to sentences of as much as one yr in jail for drug trafficking.
In a subsidiary process to the investigation into the dramatic street accident triggered on February 10 in Seine-et-Marne by Pierre Palmade underneath the affect of narcotics, three younger males, recognized from the artist’s phone, had been prosecuted on the market and supply of medication to the artist on the time of the collision.
After a four-hour listening to, two of the sellers, aged 21 and 32, and with beforehand clear legal data, had been sentenced, the primary to a one-year suspended sentence and the second to 1 yr in jail. closed with continued detention. A 3rd defendant, aged 22, suspected of getting been a easy deliveryman, was acquitted of this cost.
Cocaine and artificial medicine
At the time of the accident, which occurred after a number of days of “chemsex” (drug consumption throughout sexual activity aimed toward boosting efficiency and sensations) and which left three significantly injured in a automobile arriving reverse, “we were hurrying to go to Carrefour to withdraw money because (one of the dealers) had to deliver 3MMC and cocaine to me,” Pierre Palmade told investigators, according to his statements read at the hearing.
Following the traces, the gendarmes identify two of his main dealers at the moment: “Max Chine”, a Chinese student who mainly supplies the artist with 3MMC, a synthetic drug, and “Winterfell” (in reference to the series Game Of Thrones), which delivers it in top quality cocaine.
A 22-year-old ex-footballer
At the helm, Karim B., alias “Winterfell”, is not having a great time. Thin and athletic, his lower face hidden behind a black surgical mask, the 22-year-old defendant minimizes his illicit activity. “To be honest, Mr. President,” as he constantly repeats, he only made a few sales to finance his sports massage practice.
“It was for me, it was a small traffic (…) I must have had four or five clients, maybe six to be really large”, affirms this ex-semi-professional footballer in a cream turtleneck sweater whose last delivery to Cély-en-Bière was a week before the accident.
The prosecutor is stunned {that a} “beginner” in trafficking is ready to provide 94% pure cocaine, in comparison with the typical 50% available on the market, and instantly finds himself supplying giant, rich drug addicts like Pierre Palmade. “It’s bad luck, I really would have liked not to have all this,” evades Karim B. who took a airplane ticket to Thailand the day after the extremely publicized accident.
The protection denounces an “excessive” investigation
Objecting to the outline of a “major” case made by the prosecution, which had required as much as three years in jail, the protection of the defendants criticized an “excessive” investigation by way of means mobilized as impression.
“This case is only as important as the notoriety of the drug addict who is involved in this affair…”, summarized Maître Grégory Bensadoun.
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