Kim Kardashian leaves the justice palace after testifying, concerning a theft of tens of millions of {dollars} in jewels from her Paris lodge room in 2016, in Paris, Tuesday, Might 13, 2025.
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PARIS — The high-profile Paris trial of 10 defendants accused of robbing Kim Kardashian at gunpoint in 2016 ended with 8 of the so-called ‘grandpa robbers’ discovered responsible, whereas 2 have been acquitted.
The defendants’ attorneys had urged the jury to spare their growing older shoppers from jail, arguing that it might quantity to a life sentence. 7 males and 1 girl have been convicted on costs starting from theft to complicity within the crime.
However ultimately the court docket handed down jail phrases starting from 3 to eight years, considerably lighter than the prosecution’s calls for.
The ringleader of the veteran gang, who held Kim Kardashian at gunpoint and left her fearing for her life requested “a thousand pardons” in court docket Friday. Aomar Aït Khedache, 69, was sentenced to eight years in jail, with a 5 years suspended sentence.
Khedache was one of 10 defendants on trial at Paris’ Assises court docket for the 2016 theft, going through costs together with armed theft and kidnapping by an organized gang.
Many of the group at the moment are of their 60s and 70s and have been dubbed the “Grandpa robbers” by French media.
Khedache is now utterly deaf and needed to learn the court docket’s directions on a display through the trial.
On the evening of the theft, the gang—disguised as cops—arrived on foot and by bicycle to deceive the doorman on the Kardashians’ luxurious Paris condominium throughout Style Week in October 2016
Considered one of them, 71-year-old Yunice Abbas, has already written a ebook in regards to the heist. He had beforehand served 20 years for housebreaking. On Friday Abbas was sentenced to 7 years in jail, with most of that suspended.
“I instructed myself this was the final time,” Abbas stated in a TV interview earlier than the trial. “However a 20-carat diamond with no safety? That was tempting.” He admitted he did not know who Kardashian was — solely that she was “the spouse of a rapper.”
However the ring was well-known: Kardashian had proven it off to her 300 million Instagram followers.
The job was sloppy. Abbas’ getaway bike acquired a flat tire and his bag of jewels ripped open on the street. A $24,000 diamond cross necklace fell right into a gutter and was discovered the subsequent day by a passerby — who wore it for some time earlier than turning it in.
The bungling gang left DNA everywhere in the scene. They used tape and velcro to restrain Kardashian and have been caught inside 4 months.
“It’d sound humorous,” stated Mohand Ouidja, lawyer for the traumatized doorman, “however this was armed theft, violence and bondage. It is critical — whatever the robbers’ age.”
Kardashian known as it the worst evening of her life. Her $4 million diamond ring was by no means recovered.
The 4 week trial at a courthouse in Paris’s historic Ile de la Cité space attracted large media consideration. Crowds flocked to the court docket throughout Kardashian’s transient look in Might, hoping for a glimpse of the movie star. Kardashian was not within the courtroom for the decision on Friday.
Although the incident modified her life, Kardashian says she has forgiven the thieves.
“I consider in second possibilities,” she instructed her 300-plus million Instagram followers.
