Kim Kardashian: They condemn eight members of the “Band of the Grandparents” for the robbery in 2016 to the American star

Despite this, none of the convicted will enter prison, because they have spent time in jail while waiting for the trial and the rest of their sentence corresponds to five years of suspended conviction.

And it is that a series of errors made this robbery condemned to failure from the beginning, already early 2017, three months after the incident, several of the assailants had already been arrested.

Abbas and Khedache, who confessed their participation in the robbery, apologized to Kardashian for what happened.

Abbas, who is now 71 years old, wrote a memoir entitled “I stole Kim Kardashian by armed.”

After the sentence made public, Kardashian thanked the French authorities for having done justice.

“The crime was the most terrifying experience of my life and left a lasting impact on me and my family,” he said in a statement.

“Although I will never forget what happened, I believe in the power of growth and responsibility, and I pray for everyone’s healing,” he added.

Most of those prosecuted for the theft of Kardahsian was born in the 1950s, which led the French media to nick them the “grandparents thieves.”

The night from October 2 to 3, 2016, Abbas and four accomplices monitored the discreet Kardashian Suite at the Hotel de Poultalès, in the elegant neighborhood of Madeleine in Paris, near the opera and the Place Vendôme.

Around 3:00 local time, they broke into the hotel lobby, police dresses and armed with a gun.

They threatened and handcuffed Abderrahmane Ouatiki, an Algerian doctoral student who used to work as a night receptionist, and took him to Kardashian’s room.

Upon entering there, they demanded that they give them the jewels, they gagged her, tied and left her in the bathroom.

Once the money and value objects were made, the thieves fled by bicycle and foot.

The success of the robbers had a short life because they made serious mistakes.

“They did not take into account the advances of police techniques, which can now find DNA micro -breasters anywhere,” said Patricia Tourancheau, a reporter of events and author of “Kim and grandparents thieves”, an exhaustive story of the robbery and life of its authors.

“When they disguised police officers, they thought: ‘That’s, nobody can recognize us,'” he added.

But in 2016, Paris still recovered from the terrorist attacks of the previous year, and there were a lot of surveillance cameras throughout the city, which allowed the police to locate the thieves and see them flee with the jewels.

Other details of this story suggest that thieves planning was quite random. When fleeing the place by bicycle, Abbas stumbled, dropping a bag with jewelry.

The next day, a passerby found a collar with diamond inlays and took him all day in his office before seeing the news and realizing where he had left.

The police arrested Abbas and several more people in January 2017 and later confirmed that the thieves had been under vigilance for several weeks, after the DNA traces left on the scene coincided with Aomar Ait Khedache, also known as “Omar el Viejo.”

Tourancheau, author of the book on the robbery, said “fascinated” by the “confrontation between these thieves of the old Parisian periphery school and a world social networks star.”

“They fled by bicycle and she flies in private jets,” he said.

“They are a group of elderly and resources, they are always in bankruptcy, always involved in convoluted plans … and they faced someone very famous and did not even know who it was.”

The band was not “elite”, as suggested at the beginning, he added. “This is not the flower and cream of French banditism. The truth, they are losers. They are the same type of people as in the 60s and 70s robbed banks or email offices, and then dedicated themselves to drug trafficking and then to the jewels because it was easier,” he said.

The police tracking of the band’s telephone numbers revealed that, shortly after the robbery, Omar El Viejo traveled from Paris to Antwerp, Belgium, where 50% of polished diamonds and 80% of the raw diamonds of the world are sold, according to the Diamond Investment Office.

It was reported that many jewels were cast or destroyed and sold. Abbas received 75,000 euros (US $ 85,000); the other much less.

As for Kim’s commitment ring, Omar the old man said the band had many fears of selling it, since it was very easy to track. It has never been found.

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