Eight defendants were convicted of crimes related to the 2016 robbery of reality TV star Kim Kardashian, a high-profile robbery.
According to NBC News, two of the 10 defendants were acquitted nine years ago during Paris Fashion Week and had an armed robbery during Paris Fashion Week.
A court in the French capital ruled the verdict in its trial of the “Grandpa Robber” that was accused of stealing millions of dollars of Kardashian jewelry.
The robbery is considered the biggest robbery against an individual who has seen in decades in Paris. A jury of six citizens was tried with three magistrate judges – France's process reserved for the worst offences.
A panel of three judges and six jurors will need to vote with a seven-vote majority to make a decision. Kardashian did not make a verdict on Friday, which was shortly after 8 p.m. local time or 2 p.m. ET.
Nine men and a woman were charged with committing or assisting in the crime, when the robbers dressed as policemen, forced them into the charming hôtel depourtalès, tied the Kardashian to the zipper and escaped with $6 million worth of jewelry.
After the final statement was made in court, the defendant was fired on Friday morning and the verdict was finally made in the afternoon.
The so-called leader Aomar Aït Khedache was sentenced to eight years in prison, but five of them were suspended.
The other three charged with the worst charges were charged for seven years, with five of them suspended. According to the Associated Press, no one convicted will be jailed as pre-trial detention is due.
On April 28, 2025, in Paris, France, the defendant Aomaraït Khedache was seen outside the Palace of Justice.
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Khedache's DNA was found on the band used to bind Kardashians, a key breakthrough that helped open the case. Eavesdropping caught his orders, recruited accomplices and arranged for the sale of Belgian diamonds. The diamond cross that fell during the escape was the only jewel to be restored.
Khedache said he was just an infantryman. He accused a mysterious “X” or “Ben” – the prosecutor said never existed.
His lawyer begged for leniency, pointing to one of the most intrinsic moments of the trial – Kardashian’s earlier encounter with a man accused of meticulously planning his ordeal.
“She came and looked at him, she listened to the letter he wrote to her, and then forgived him,” attorney Franck Berton told the Associated Press.
“I appreciate this letter, I forgive you,” Kardashian told Khedache. “But that didn’t change the fact that my feelings, the trauma and my life changed forever.”
Kardashian testified on May 13 in a court filled with Paris courts and told the jury that she believes she will be sexually assaulted during the 2016 robbery.
“I'm sure this is the moment he's going to rape me,” she told the Paris court on Tuesday. “I definitely think I'm going to die.”
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Kardashian sometimes burst into tears, saying she was about to go to bed when she heard loud footsteps up the stairs to her hotel room and told the court that she thought at first she thought it was her sister, Kourtney, and a friend who returned from the Paris Fashion Week event in the early hours of October 3.
She recalls calling for whom she was there, and then the masked man enters the room.
“I'm obviously confused. I have to understand what's going on. I'm about to fall asleep, naked,” she told the court.
“Honestly, there are a lot of terrorist attacks in the world, and I think it’s some kind of terrorist attack, and I don’t immediately understand that this is my jewelry.”
The court sketch, drawn in Paris on May 13, 2025, shows us celebrity Kim Kardashian (c), next to the same accused AOMAR AIT KHEDACHE, and testified at Assize Court in the 2016 robbery trial.
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She said the suspect, dressed in police, arrived at her hotel and seized the concierge service hostage. According to Kardashian, he was dragged into her room and handcuffed.
An attacker began to signal her diamond ring.
“He said, 'Ring! Ring!' He pointed at his hand,” she recalled.
Kardashian grabbed the phone and called the police, but did not know the French emergency number. She then tried to contact her sister and bodyguards but was stopped by a masked assaulter.
She said the people dragged her into the bathroom where they pressed her mouth and told her that she would not be hurt as long as she didn't make any noise.
She recalled the proactive handling of the suspects but said they did not hit her.
She told the court: “I wasn’t hit.
“[The gun] Being pointed at me, let me go from room to room, and finally point to my bed. ”
Her testimony marks a long-awaited moment that has attracted nearly a decade of history in the trial and has reinvigorated discussions about the price of fame and the risks of living in the eyes of the public.
Kardashian's mother, Kris Jenner, joined the serious Paris court. She wore a black dress with a $1.5 million diamond draped around her neck, according to the Associated Press, a press release she sent to reporters during the trial said, wearing black clothes and $1.5 million diamonds draped around her neck – her voice trembled as she thanked French authorities for allowing her to “talk my truth.”
American celebrity Kim Kardashian (L) avoided her multi-million-dollar jewellery at the muzzle of Paris on May 13, 2025, after testifying with her mother Kris Jenner (R).
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A suspect in the armed robbery said he regretted the “trauma” caused by the Kardashian nearly nine years later.
Defendant Yunice Abbas said it was the first time he had truly realized that he had caused the “trauma” of Kardashian, as the trial began on April 29 in proceedings against 10 people involved in the 2016 robbery.
“I'm sorry, not because I was caught, but because…trauma happened,” Abbas, 72, told the jury.
Defendant Yunice Abbas participated in the 2016 robbery and kidnapping of our celebrity Kim Kardashian on April 28, 2025 in the Assize Court of Paris.
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Abbas is the first of several defendants to testify at the trial, having previously admitted his role in crime in his 2021 book titled I kidnapped Kim KardashianAppears during testimony.
According to NBC News, he claimed he was not responsible for the title of the book, saying he was not involved in the Kardashian during the robbery.
Abbas said he acted as a surveillance in the reception area on the ground floor to ensure the escape route is clear. He said he was not armed and did not personally threaten Kardashian, but admitted he was responsible for the crime.
He was arrested in January 2017 and was released under judicial supervision for 21 months. Abbas and nine were allegedly called “Grandpa Robbers” in local media, allegedly playing different roles in the robbery.
According to Abbas, his accomplices fell from Kardashian's apartment and gave him a bag of jewelry minutes after the raid began.
When he fled the scene on his bicycle, he saw a police car, but the police were not aware of the robbery. Abbas said that when he was riding his bike, the bag containing the jewelry was grabbed on the front wheel and he fell to the ground and spilled the bag.
He said, “I picked up the jewelry.”
The next morning, a passerby found a diamond-covered cross on the street and handed it over to the police. That was the only jewelry that robbed from the robbery.
Abbas claimed he did not know Kardashian's identity during the robbery.
Twelve people were initially expected to be in the defendant's box. One person died and the other person was seriously ill and could not try. According to the investigation, 5 out of 10 defendants attended the robbery scene
– Documents from Rachel Goodman and the Associated Press from Global News
