The ruling is expected to be paid in the trial of 10 people who were accused of stealing our celebrity Kim Kardashian of Paris’s millions worth of jewelry nearly a decade ago.
Nine men and one woman are accused of operating or supporting £10 million (£7.55 million) worth of jewelry, including diamond engagement rings, during Paris Fashion Week 2016.
Prosecutors have sentenced four men accused of carrying out the robbery to 10 years, and eight to six years for five other men and women accused of being accessory to the crime.
The defendant filed a final statement in court, which was rejected Friday morning, with a verdict expected later that day.
Many of the defendants are now elderly and feel unwell and are leading the French media to blow away “grandpa robbery.”
However, since the trial began on April 28th, prosecutors and civil parties have been pushed back violently to the notion that a suspicious robbery is harmless, with Kardashian stating the robbery, during which she was tied up and held at the muzzle – leaving her trauma behind.
Prosecutor Anne Dominique Melville said the sentence should reflect the “severity” and “violence” of the robbery.
She urged the ju judges not to shake up the defendant’s age and health status, who was a “experienced robber” at the time of the robbery.
Between October 3rd and 4th, 2016, a gang of five men entered the building as Kardashian was in a room at Hotel Deportales in central Paris.
As the three continue to guard downstairs, two forced receptionists, Abdelah Mameatiki (now the plaintiff), took him to the Kardashian room and acted as translators, demanding that he be handed over jewelry containing an engagement ring worth $4 million. Then they ran away.
The defendant was arrested by police in January 2017, but no jewelry was found.
DNA evidence from AOMAR AIT KHEDACHE (69) and 71-year-old Yunice Abbas placed them at the crime scene, and the two admitted their involvement.
However, Khedache, currently disabled, deaf and muted, denys him as the mastermind. He admitted that he was one of the two people who entered the Kardashian room and bound her by pointing a gun at her, but he said he was not violent “at least not as many women as ever.”
His lawyer urged the Ju judge to keep his health in mind, saying he had no risk of recidivism. “At his age, prison time means life sentence,” said lawyer Frank Belton.
Abbas, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease and recently undergoes cardiac surgery, told the ju judge on Friday morning that he regretted his actions. “I’m sorry I can do,” he said.
Among the other defendants was a man who worked as a driver of the Kardashian family. He denied providing information about their moves to another man who said the robber and the prosecutor was the escape driver.
Last week, in a five-hour emotional testimony through an interpreter, Kim Kardashian shared her traumatic memories of the night.
She was composed, but sometimes she struggled to fight back tears as she remembered moments when she feared that the robbers would sexually attack her.
“I don’t want that kind of fear from anyone – as I think you can be killed or raped… I don’t want it from my worst enemy,” the 44-year-old stood a few meters away from the accused and patted her eyes with tissue.
Kardashian also said that in the jewelry he took from her, it was a watch that her late father gave her. “I can’t get it back, it wasn’t just jewelry…someone took my memories away,” she said.
When Court President David De Pas read the letter of apology written by Khedache, Kardashian said he had forgiven him. However, she said she cannot erase the trauma she experienced.
Another plaintiff in the case, the night receptionist Abderrahmane Ouatiki, attended the courtroom through trial. Since Heist, a former Algerian PhD student experienced PTSD, quit his studies and left France.
During his closing discussion, his lawyer said, “It’s difficult to be a victim when anonymous and poor,” but “not everyone can afford to be surrounded by bodyguards to sleep better,” but he believed that justice could ultimately “restore balance.”
