Suspicious in Kardashian’s jewelry robbery, he plans to assume his responsibility in trial in Paris
Paris – One of the suspects for Kim Kardashian’s armed robbery said he plans to assume responsibility for his role in the famous 2016 robbery and will apologize in court when the trial begins Monday in Paris.
Yunice Abbas, 71, who has publicly recognized his participation in the robbery, is one of the ten suspects that face positions that include armed hand and kidnapping.
“I will apologize,” Abbas told The Associated Press. “I say it sincerely.”
Kardashian, 44, is expected to testify in person at the trial scheduled to last until May 23. In interviews and in the Telerreality program of his family, he has described the terror he felt when the thieves pointed him with a weapon to steal jewelry valued in millions of dollars in an apartment where he stayed for the Paris fashion week. He said he thought he was going to be raped and killed.
Abbas said he acted as a guard in the reception area on the ground floor, making sure the escape route was clear. He said he was not armed and did not personally threaten Kardashian, but acknowledged that he shared the responsibility of the crime.
He was arrested in January 2017 and spent 21 months in prison before being released under judicial supervision. In 2021, he co -written a book in French entitled “J’ai SéqueStré Kim Kardashian” (I kidnap Kim Kardashian).
Tied with plastic cables and tape
In his story to the researchers, Kardashian described how two men broke into his bedroom and pointed him with a gun, asking for his ring. He said they tied it with plastic cables and tape while the intruders were looking for jewels, including its commitment ring valued at millions of dollars.
In an appearance in 2020 in the Netflix program by David Letterman, he remembered with tears thinking: “This is the time they are going to rape me. I am like, ‘What’s happening? Are we going to die? Just tell them that I have children. I have babies, I have a husband, I have a family.”
He told the researchers that the men took her to the bathroom before fleeing and that he managed to free himself.
The janter of the residence, retained at gunpoint and forced to take thieves to their apartment, also suffered a psychological impact.
The researchers found Abbas DNA in plastic ties used to immobilize the hands of the janitage.
When asked about the trauma that Kardashian suffered, Abbas said: “It’s true, I didn’t think about that. I recognize that because I did not brutalize her myself … I didn’t blame myself with respect to this aspect, and yet I am responsible for it too.”
Stolen jewels were worth millions
According to Abbas, minutes after the assault began, his accomplices got out of Kardashian apartment and gave him a jewelry bag.
While running from the scene on a bicycle, he saw a policeman, but the officers were not yet aware of the robbery. Abbas said that while riding the bicycle, the bag containing the jewels hooked on the front wheel and fell to the ground, dropping its content. “I picked up the jewels and left,” he said.
The next morning, a passer -by found an embedded cross of diamonds in the street and delivered it to the police. That was the only jewel of the robbery that recovered.
French justice estimated that stolen articles had a total value of 6 million dollars.
Abbas said he didn’t know Kardashian’s identity at the time of theft.
“They told me about a famous person, a rapper’s wife. That was all the information he had,” he said. “Until the next morning, when I heard on television about influencer. That’s when I understood who she was.”
He said that he will detail his role during the trial, which will be carried out with a jury, a procedure in France reserved for the most serious crimes, but that he would not denounce his accomplices.
“I am only an outsider. I am not the one who devised the case. I assume my part of responsibility,” he said.
Most suspects have denied their participation, except Abbas and another man whose DNA was also found on the scene.
FBI participation
Thierry Niemen, the journalist who co -written Abbas’ book, said the thief approached him because he wanted to “tell his own truth” in the midst of what he saw as inaccurate or sensational stories.
The book also revealed details of the investigation, including how the FBI helped the French police identify the ABBAS DNA even though it had gloves.
“This is the case of the highest level,” said Niemen. “The FBI supervises an investigation in French territory, that is already great.” Kardashian was then the main influencer in the world and the case was the most popular theme in social networks in 2016, Niemen said.
Abbas’s profits for the book have been frozen waiting for the result of the trial.
Kardashian’s lawyer, Michael Rhodes, has said that the Telerreality and businesswoman star wants the trial to “proceed in an orderly manner, in accordance with French law, and with respect to all parts of the case.”
