A group of suspects nicknamed the “grandparents’ thieves” are put in trial at the end of April, accused of stealing jewels worth millions of the American reality television star Kim Kardashian in Paris in 2016.
In what the French press has called “The Heist of the Century”, the masked men moved away from the luxurious Parisian hotel where Kardashian stayed in October 2016 with millions of jewels, including a diamond ring given away by their THENHUSBAND.
Kardashian will testify in person at the trial, which will open on April 28, said American lawyer Michael Rhodes last week.
Ten people will be on the dock and the verdict is expected on May 23, Kardashian, to appear on May 13, according to a provisional schedule.
In what has been calling the greatest French attraction aimed at an individual in 20 years, Kardashian was stolen or estimated at 10 million euros ($ 11.4 million at the current rates) while staying in a week of the fashion of the luxury residence.
Among the suspicious arrested four months later in Paris and in southern France is Aomar Ait Khedache, known as “Old Omar”, who admitted his participation in the robbery, but denies the prosecution’s accusation that he was also the leader of the ring.
Two investigating magistrates ordered the suspects to be tried by jury, who in France is reserved for the most serious crimes, for charges that include armed hand robbery, kidnapping and membership or a criminal gang.
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On the night of October 2 to 3, 2016, several men, some of the police officers who pass through the hotel where Kardashian, who was 35 years old, was duration of fashion week.
The star had attended a Givenchy show before returning to the hotel around midnight without her bodyguard who was with her sister Kourtney, also a media personality and a socialite, who had gone to the discos.
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An ‘easy’ robbery
Two of the intruders took the weapons to the head and one, later, Kardashian told the detectives, he addressed her “with a very strong French accent” in English, counting his hand on his ring of diamond commitment.
That West ring, which the influencer had shown widely on social networks, it was estimated that it was worth four million dollars.
The intruders tied her, gagged her and took her to the bathroom.
Meanwhile, three men watched at the reception, one waiting at the wheel of an escape car.
All theft lasted about 10 minutes.
Kardashian’s frequent publications about their wealth, personal life and people may have facilitated the actions of perpetrators.
Ait Khedache then told researchers that the work had been “easy”, and nothing like a regular armed robbery.
In addition to the ring, which presented a diamond almost without a flow of 18.88 carats, the group was made with several more pieces of gold jewels and diamonds, including a gold rolex watch.
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One of the alleged thieves, Yunice Abbas, who is now 71 years old, who fled the scene on a bicycle, dropped a cross embedded by diamonds worth 30,000 euros, which was found by a passer -by a few hours later.
The suspicious thieves lost some more articles while they were in the race, but most of the generosity has never been found and it is believed that it has been sold in Belgium.
Later, Abbas wrote a book, called “kidnapping Kim Kardashian”, despite affirming that he was only one of the guards without looking at the star.
Another suspect, Didier Dubreucq, 69, also arrived on the bicycle scene and is drums or has one leg in Kardashian’s room, whose denies.
The greatest suspects had, agreed for prosecutors, they hoped to make a criminal return with the robbery.
The suspects were mainly identified thanks to their DNA.
Of the 12 people originally accused of theft, only 10 will be present at the trial after a suspect died and another, 80, Pierre Bouianere, was declared unable to participate in the procedures for health reasons.
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