Paris, France
He judgment for the spectacular assault to Kim Kardashian In his hotel room in 2016 during the Fashion Week in Paris, where Some elderly bicycle criminals robbed him ten million Of dollars in jewelry, it started Monday in the French capital.
Surrounded by enormous media expectation, the process, chaired by Judge David de Pas, It must pass until May 23 in the historic Palace of Justice of Paris.
The first view opened around 14h40 without the presence of the 44 -year -old superstar, which is planned testify in person on May 13.
The ten defendants are 9 men and a woman, whose average age He was around 60 at the time of theft. Nine years later, many have white hair and some wear cane or hearing aid.
In the absence of Kardashian, only part of the 400 accredited journalists moved for this first day of ultramediatic judgment.
To Aomar Ait Khedache, nicknamed “Omar la Vijo”, about to turn 69 And that has lost hearing and speech, stenotipists transcribe the audience. He responds by writing with his hand in a retroprojector that reproduces his words. And sometimes he raises his thumb to say yes
Former boxer Didier Dubreucq, Nicknamed “Blue Eyes”, he received the authorizations from the Court to absent his chemiterapia. And three defendants received permission from the president of the court to urinate every time they need it.
Also in the bank of the accused is Christiane Glotin (78 years), a small old woman chic, and Yunice Abbas (71 years), relaxed before the Court and who wants to ask Kardashian excuses, according to his defense.
– Four million ring –
On October 3, 2016, around 03 in the morning, two hooded men They broke into a gunpoint In the hotel room where the famous American influential one was staying, which was in Paris to attend fashion week.
The assailants pointed it with a gun and one of them, according to Kardashian’s story, he addressed her in English with “a strong French accent” and He asked him to give him his ring.
Then, they tied and gagged her And they locked her In the bathroom.
The ring It was the commitment alliance that her husband had given him at the time, rapper Kanye West, a jewel valued at four million dollars, and that Kardashian, who was then 35 years old, exhibited on social networks just like the rest of his life.
Photography: Alain Jocard / AFP
Kardashian frequently hung on social networks live publications about where he was, so temptation It was too strong for the “grandparents thieves”, As the press nicknamed for his age, which then was around 60 years.
“It was not a great armed robbery”, but an “easy job,” The main defendant, Aomar Ait Khedache, declared identified by your DNA. The thief acknowledged that he had tied Kardashian, but denies being the leader, as the researchers claim.
– “Ancient bandits” –
He assault It was fast-a ten minutes-but left traumatized to the superstar.
In total, thieves are They carried 10 million dollars in jewelry. This case is considered the greatest robbery of a person in the last 20 years in France.
- Of all the loot, only a collar was found in the street that the robbers dropped during their escape. It is believed that gold was molten and the researchers, who seized hundreds of thousands of euros at the house of thieves, think that a large part of the jewels was sold in Belgium.
These “old bandits”, As the researchers described them, they were arrested three months after theft.
Kardashian, a very influential multimillion -dollars and multimillion -dollar businesswoman on social networks, had about 84 million followers on Instagram in 2016. Today they amount to 357 million.
But, His robbers seemed to know little about her. At the hotel, they threatened the receptionist, who asked about “the rapper’s wife.” They did not realize who it really was until later, when they saw the media and international scope of theft.
