Yunice Abas, one of the “robbing grandparents” accused of theft of jewels for 10 million dollars to Kim Kardashian In 2016, he tried to minimize his responsibility by presenting himself as a clumsy thief before the Criminal Court of Paris This Wednesday.
Since the end of April, ten suspects are being tried by armed hand the queen of social networks, which the French press described as “The theft of the century.”
Abás, 71, is a low man, with a shaved head, his right -handed arm by Parkinson and presented himself wearing a navy blue vest.
It is one of the only two defendants who recognized having participated in the robbery, occurred on the night of the October 2 to 3and even wrote a book about it: “I kidnap Kim Kardashian. “
The previous day, like Aomar Ait Khedache -the brain’s brain, he presented her “sorry for the American”, who when the robbery occurred was 35 years old.
“I came to turn the blade. I accept its apologies,” the star replied from the pod.
Abás was arrested early 2017 because his DNA had been found at the crime site and confessed his participation.
But on Wednesday “dodges the answers,” said the president of the Court, David de Pas.
According to him he had never heard of Kim Kardashian, I only knew that the victim was a “rapper woman”, who was a “blow 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 was neutralized, he had to monitor while two accomplices went up to the star room.
“They fell 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, he said the defendant, it was he who left with the bag hanging from the handlebar of his bicycle.
A few meters from the hotel a policeman appeared and thought he was caught. “I lifted an arm to say: ‘I give up, I’m not armed’, but the police believed that I greeted me. They returned the greeting and followed their way,” he said.
Yunice Abás’s story tried to portray an unprofessional and clumsy thief, which even during his escape by bicycle the bag falls with the jewels and collecting them forgot a cross with diamond inlays that a passerby found the next day, the only piece of the loot that was recovered.
