Paris prepares the trial against the “grandparents thieves” for the theft of valuable jewels to Kim Kardashian
A group of men nicknamed “Grandparents thieves” will be among the 10 people who will go to trial next week for the Theft of millions of dollars in jewels Kim Kardashianwhich was held at gunpoint in his apartment during Paris Fashion Week in 2016.
The influencer will travel to Paris to declare against the defendants, Among those who are more than 70 years, in A trial that will last almost a monthsaid his lawyer.
The suspects, with balaclavas and clothing with police signs, tied Kardashian in the bedroom of the luxury suite, before getting with A commitment ring of 4 million dollars given by her then husband, rapper Kanye West (now known as Ye), and other jewelsaccording to researchers.
The robbery left Kardashian, whose bodyguard had accompanied his sister Kourtney to a nightclub the night of theft, very shocked but unharmed.
“They shouted me in French”Kardashian recalled in an interview with David Letterman in 2020. “They didn’t stop saying ‘the ring, the ring’.”
“I kept looking at the janitor,” he said. “I was like ‘Are we going to die? Tell them I have children, that I have babies … I have to go home.”
Kardashian’s legal team said she wouldn’t comment before trial.
“At this time, Mrs. Kardashian is preserving her testimony for the court and jury”Said the team. “She wants the trial to proceed in an orderly manner in accordance with French law and with respect to all parties to the case.”
In total, 10 people will be tried by the Criminal Court. Five of them face armed and kidnapping robbery charges. The others are accused of complicity in the robbery or unauthorized possession of a weapon.
One of the defendants, Yunice Abbas, 71 years old and has admitted his participation in the robbery, he told the French television channel Tf1 who struggled to reach the end of the month as a pensioner after having spent 20 years of his working life in jail.
The “great work was going to be the last,” he said, adding that They had told him that the goal was a great diamond, but that he had no idea that he belonged to a famous billionaire.
The men fled by bicycle with an estimated booty of 9 million dollars. Abbas fell out of the bicycle and lost some jewels on the sidewalk.
By Juliette Jabkhiro (Reuters)
