Paris – A decade after the thieves broke into the luxury residence of Kim Kardashian and tied it to a gunpoint, a Paris court settled on Friday to decide the verdict in one of the Most of the bold celebrity positions in the modern history of the French.
Nine men and a woman are accused of carrying out, or helping, the crime during the 2016 Paris Fashion Week, when masked men dressed when the police entered Kardashian’s house in Paris, tied it with Tirolesase and disappeared with $ 6 million in jewels.
In the heart of rehearsal He is Aomar Aït Khedache, 70, a veteran of the Underworld of Paris. Prosecutors have requested a sentence of 10 years. His DNA, which is found in the Zip-Ties used to tie Kardashian, opened the case. Wiretaps captured him by giving orders, recruiting accomplices and organizing selling diamonds in Belgium. The loot was never found.
Khedache says he was just a foot soldier. He blamed a mysterious “X” or “Ben”, someone says that prosecutors never existed.
The defendant became known in France as “Les Papys Braqueurs”, the thieves of grandparents. Some arrived at the court in orthopedic shoes and one leaned on a cane. Some read the procedures of a screen, with hearing and almost silent problems. But prosecutors warned observers not to be seduced by soft appearances.
The trial is being heard by a panel of three judges and six jury, who will need a majority vote to reach a verdict.
The defendants face charges that include armed robbery, kidnapping and gang association. If it is declared guilty, they could face life imprisonment.
Kardashian’s testimony earlier this month was the culminating emotional point. In a full court, he told how he was thrown into a bed, tied with zipper, and had a pistol pressed on the night of October 2, 2016.
“I absolutely thought I was going to die,” he said. “I have babies. I have to get home. They can take everything. I just have to do home.”
She was dragged into a marble bath and told her to remain silent. When the thieves fled, he released the tape on his wrists against the sink, then hid with his friend, trembling and barefoot.
She said that Paris had once her sanctuary, a city that wandered at 3 am, in the windows, stopping hot chocolate. That illusion was shattered.
The robbery echoed far beyond the city of light. Forced a Recalibration of celebrity behavior In the digital age. For years, Kardashian had selected his life as an exhibition hall: Geo-Estiplined, illuminated by diamonds, public by design. But this was the moment when the exhibition hall became a crime scene. In his words, “people were looking … they knew where they were.”
Then, he stopped publishing his location in real time. She stripped her feed of social networks of luxurious gifts and disappeared from Paris for years. Other stars followed their example. Privacy became a luxury.
The defense lawyers have asked the Court of clemency, citing the age and health of the accused. But prosecutors insist that the criminal experience, not fragility, defined the gang.
On Friday morning, the defendant will speak one last time before the court retired to deliberate.
Even for the thorough legal system of France, the observers commented how long it took to be judged in the case.
Kardashian, who once said “This experience really changed everything”, hopes that the verdict will offer a closing measure.
