The « robberies » will be fixed on their fate this Friday – Liberation

A spectacular robbery of American superstar in the midst of Paris fashion week, and nine years later, the verdict. The Assize Court is deciding this Friday, May 23 on the fate of « robberies » Accused of having kidnapped, tied up and stripped Kim Kardashian 9 million euros in jewelry in its hotel room in 2016.

The 10 accused will speak one last time in the morning, before the court withdraws to deliberate. The verdict is expected this Friday evening.

Are they all guilty? Will they return to prison? Between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening, the defense lawyers succeeded themselves at the helm to look at professional magistrates and especially popular jurors in their eyes, and try to convince them. First to forget for a moment the ultra-media side of this trial. « I wondered what it had done to you to learn that you were drawn for the Kim Kardashian affair », told them one of them.

And above all, to avoid them prison. The vast majority of the accused went there, for a few months or a few years, after their arrest several weeks after this night of October 2 to 3, 2016 when hooded and armed throbed thicks had entered each other in the discreet hotel of the Queen of Influencers. The accusation requested on Wednesday 10 years in prison against four alleged robbers. A sentence that according to the lawyer general takes both into account the « Gravity »there « violence » facts, the « terror » felt by the victims but also the age and state of health of these accused.

We must not trust « Reassuring wrinkles » As we can see on the accused bench, said Anne-Dominique Merville. At the time of the facts, these are « Seasoned robbers of organized crime » in the busy criminal record, not « Nickel -plated feet ». « Reality is that they set up and succeeded. »

Today, several of these « Papy robbers » are sick. Yunice Abbas, 71, Already operated from the heart in pre -trial detention, suffers from Parkinson’s disease. Didier Dubreucq, 69, follows chemotherapy for his cancer on the sidelines of the trial. As for « Sponsor » presumed, same age, Aomar Aït Khedache, he is deaf, almost silent, moves with a cane and suffers from diabetes.

« At this age, a firm conviction, it is perpetuity » launched his lawyer Frank Berton to the court. « I ask you to be up to it. And it’s not just me who asks you, Madame Kardashian asks you ”, he argued.

When she came to testify last week, the star accepted the apologies of the old bandit. « I forgive you » even if « It does not change the trauma », « I believe in the second chance » said, moved, the one who has been studying law for six years and finally graduated, as she announced on social networks on Thursday at her 356 million followers.

The crowd of the big days – including some 500 journalists from all countries – had come to the courthouse to see it in the flesh in and bone. « Hi, I’m Kim Kardashian », She presented herself at the helm, in a perfectly unusual outfit in these places: black tailor dress haute couture, shoulder shoulders, and flying on the hips.

And, undoubtedly as a snub to what happened to him, a cascade of diamonds from the ears to the wrists, including a collar with three million dollars and a ring strongly resembling the huge pebble, « The Ring », which it exhibited in 2016 on social networks and that the thugs had claimed from a strong French accent.

For more than four hours – she had ended up discreetly removing her heels – She described her « Certainness to die », be « Raped » That night, her supplications so that she can see her children again. Then she had left the courtyard. And resumed the thread of his life posted on Instagram, luxury selfies in front of the Ritz or in barge under the Eiffel Tower, between champagne and furs, a thousand leagues from his « Papy robbers ».