Convicted up to three years in jail the organizers of theft to Kim Kardashian in Paris in 2016 | People
French justice has sentenced this Friday, May 23, sentences of up to three years in prison to the main ones involved in theft of the businesswoman and megainfluencer Kim Kardashian, occurred during his stay in Paris for Fashion Week in October 2016. They entered their hotel room, immobilized it and took 10 million dollars in jewels. The Court considers them guilty of theft in organized and kidnapping band, but they will not have to return to prison when they have already completed part, since they were arrested in 2017.
Since the end of April, 10 people were judged by the millionaire robbery: four for direct involvement and the rest for complicity, two of which have been declared innocent. It is considered the greatest blow, also the most media, which has been in France in decades. Most of the defendants are around 70 years and have health problems.
The influencerwhich came to declare on May 13 at the former Palace of Justice in Paris, where the process has been held, has not been present during the reading of the ruling. His lawyers have pointed out that he is “satisfied with the verdict” and “deeply grateful to the French authorities for having done justice in this case.” “The crime was the most terrifying experience of my life and left an impact on me. Although I will never forget what happened, I believe in the power of growth and responsibility,” he said in a statement sent to his lawyers, who have read at the gates of the court, and in which he says he wants to “spend the page.”
Four of the 10 involved, with extensive criminal history and whose DNA was found at the hotel, have been declared guilty for theft and kidnapping. They are Omar Aït Khedache, aka The old man69 years; Yunice Abbas, 71; Didier Dubreucq, 70 years old; and Mar Alexandre Boyer, son of another of those involved, who is 35 years old. They have been issued for them between five and eight years in prison, but much of the penalty have already served it and the rest are not obliged to enter prison.
“The sentences are not very severe, taking into account the time that has passed. They hurt, although the blood did not run or hit the victim,” said the president of the court before reading the sentence, also citing the advanced age and the health problems of many of the defendants as one of the main reasons for the verdict.
The assault took place at dawn on October 3, 2016. Kardashian was in the French capital on the occasion of Fashion Week. Shortly before three in the morning, two men disguised as police entered his room, in a discreet hotel where he used to stay in the center of Paris, near the Madeleine church. Her bodyguard was not with her, because she was with her sister, Kourtney, who had dated a friend to a disco. The assailants handcuffed the accommodation guard, climbed into the room and, at gunpoint, immobilized Kardashian with cables and tape and took the precious jewels.
Among the loot was the engagement ring that had given him his husband, rapper Kanye West, valued at four million. The couple, who had four children, divorced in 2022. After the blow, the thieves escaped by bicycle, leaving all kinds of trail. They even lost part of the loot during escape. Police arrested them in January 2017. The final estimate of the stolen is not clear, but Kardashian told the court that the payment of the insurance he received was approximately six million dollars.
The verdict has been read this Friday in the presence of most of the defendants. Some have not been able to appear for their state of health. Considered the brain of the operation, Omar Aït Khedache is deaf, barely speaks and has diabetes. He has followed the trial through a screen in which the statements have been transcribing. The Prosecutor’s Office requested 10 years in jail for him, but his lawyer had asked him to acquit his delicate state of health. The court considers that it is he who gave the orders to commit the robbery and tried to resell the jewels in Belgium. The loot did not appear. Another of the convicted, Yunice Abbas, had recognized the facts. During their statements at the trial, the defendants said that when they committed the blow, they did not know who Kim Kardashian was. After his arrest, Abbas wrote a book, I stole Kim Kardashian.
“They have been presented as older men, with reassuring wrinkles, but in 2016 we were before experienced thieves of organized crime. The reality is that they planned a blow and they got it,” said the prosecutor, Anne-Dominique Merville last Thursday, who asked to be declared to all guilty. The lawyers of the older defendants did play the age letter of their clients, and urged the court to be indulgent in their sentence, arguing that there was no risk of committing more crimes and that forcing men to spend the rest of their lives after bars was unnecessarily cruel given their ailments.
Kim Kardashian, today with 44 years and with 356 million followers in his Instagram account and hundreds of millions at the bank, declared last week in front of his septuagenarium assailants, in the emblematic Voltaire Sala of the Palace of Justice of Paris. His testimony, which generated great media interest, lasted almost five hours. Told the shock that he lived during the assault, because he believed that they were going to rape her and to kill, although he acknowledged that at no time did they hit her. He also reported how his life has changed since then: now he lives surrounded by security, to sleep he needs “four or six guards at home” and every time they move or some member of his family do it with escorts. He said that what he lived in 2016 has also affected his work, since since then he no longer hangs anything on social networks until he is in the following destination.
After his testimony, the president of the court read a letter from the brain of the coup, because Omar Aït Khedache cannot speak, in which he asked for forgiveness. The star of the Telerreality was excited, and said: “I forgive him, but that does not change my trauma.”
