Yunice Abas, one of the “robbing grandparents” accused of theft of jewelry for 10 million dollars to Kim Kardashian in 2016, tried to minimize his responsibility presenting himself as a clumsy thief before the Criminal Court of Paris on Wednesday.
Since the end of April, 10 suspects are being tried by the robbery by armed hand to the queen of social networksthat the French press described as “the theft of the century.”
Abás, 71, is a low man, with his head shaved, his right trembling right arm by Parkinson And I present wearing a navy blue vest.
It is one of the only two defendants who recognized having participated in the robberyoccurred on the night of October 2 to 3, and even wrote a book about it: I kidnap Kim Kardashian.
The day before, like Aomar Ait Khedache – he brought brain of the coup -, He presented his “apologies” to the Americanthat when the robbery occurred, he was 35 years old.
«I came to turn the sheet. I accept its apologies, ”the star replied from the stand.
Abas was arrested early 2017 because its DNA had been found at the crime site and confessed its participation.
But on Wednesday “dodges the answers,” said the president of the Court, David de Pas.
As he had never heard of Kim Kardashian, he only knew that the victim was a “rapper woman”that it was a “coup of several million” and that there was a great “diamond” that she showed on social networks. But nothing about the plan or its own role.
Once the receptionist is neutralized, I had to monitor while two accomplices went to the star’s room. “They lowered less than 10 minutes later without nervousness,” he explained, with a box of jewelry Louis Vuitton in his hand, whose content emptied in a backpack.
Without being planned, The defendant said, it was he who left with the bag hanging from the handlebar of his bicycle.
A few meters from the hotel a police vehicle appeared and thought he was caught. “I lifted an arm to say: ‘I give up, I’m not armed’, but the police said I greeted. They returned my greeting and continued on his way, ”he said.
Yunice Abas’s story tried That a passerby found the next day, the only piece of the loot that was recovered.
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