'Grandpa Robbers' found guilty in Kardashian robbery by Paris court

By Euronews

Published on 24/05/2025 - 5:23 GMT+2

A French tribunal recovered nan ringleader and 7 different members who were progressive successful nan equipped robbery of Kim Kardashian guilty, but did not springiness them a situation sentence.

The main judge, David De Pas, said that nan defendants' ages and their wellness issues weighed connected nan court’s determination to enforce milder sentences. He added that nan 9 years betwixt nan robbery and nan proceedings was besides taken into account.

The 69-year-old ringleader Aomar Aït Khedache received nan stiffest sentence, 8 years imprisonment but 5 of those were suspended.

Three others sewage 7 years, 5 of them suspended. Three much sewage situation sentences ranging from 5 to 3 years, mostly aliases wholly suspended, and an eighth personification was recovered blameworthy connected a weapons complaint and fined.

However, pinch nan clip already served successful pretrial detention, nary of nan defendants will person to beryllium retired a further situation sentence.

The tribunal acquitted 2 of nan 10 defendents.

Almost a decade ago, a group dubbed nan "Grandpa Robbers", because of their property and agelong criminal histories, tied up nan reality prima astatine gunpoint and stole millions of dollars' worthy of jewellery.

Kardashian flew to Paris earlier this period to testify. The reality prima had been unsocial successful her luxury residence during nan 2016 Paris Fashion Week, and said she believed she would person been raped, killed and would ne'er spot her children again.

On Friday, Khedache asked for “a 1000 pardons,” communicated via a written statement successful court. Other defendants besides utilized their last words to definitive remorse.

Kardashian's lawyer Franck Berton told nan Associated Press that Kardashian forgave nan ringleader.

“I do admit nan letter, I forgive you,” she said. “But it doesn’t alteration nan feelings and nan trauma and nan truth that my life was everlastingly changed.”

Kardashian was not coming for nan verdict, but her lawyers said she had accepted nan court's ruling.

The personage wrote successful a connection afterwards that she was “deeply grateful to nan French authorities for pursuing justness successful this case.”

The crime was nan astir terrifying acquisition of my life, leaving a lasting effect connected maine and my family. While I'll ne'er hide what happened, I judge successful nan powerfulness of maturation and accountability and believe for treatment for all," she added.