Eight French “grandfather -raids” were found guilty of the kidnapping and theft of Kim Kardashian 2016 in Paris.
A panel of three judges and six jury members in the courtroom of Paris has guilty pronounced protrusions to seven men and one woman, According to the New York Times.
The court sentenced them to three to eight years in prison for different levels of involvement in an extensive robbery in which the Superstar influencer was involved with ZIP tires and agreeing with $ 9 million in its jewelry -including a diamond engagement ring from Kanye West.
Another suspect was found guilty of a weapon attack, but not in involvement in the robbery, and one was completely cleared.
Their sentences were usually or completely suspended, the Times added.
Most defendants were in the late 1950s and 1960s when the police rounded them in the months after the robbery, with the help of evidence such as DNA and Wire Taps to crack the case.
The accused in France became known as “Les Papys Braqueurs” – the grandfather -raids.
After almost ten years of delays in legal proceedings, most robbers are now in the late 60s and 70s and they were suffering, including cancers, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s.
A suspect died before the trial, and the alleged brain of the operation – Aomar Aït Khedache – was deaf and communicated with the court through written banknotes.
The 44-year-old Kardashian, on the other hand, was just as beautiful as always in the courtroom and contrast with her complicated witness about how she was thrown on a bed, with zipper and a gun printed on her in the night of October 2, 2016.
“I definitely thought I would die,” she said. “I have babies. I have to get it home. They can take everything. I just have to come home.”
She was dragged to a marble bathroom and said she had to remain silent.
When the robbers fled, she freed herself by scraping the tape on her wrists against the sink and hid with her friend, shaking and barefoot.
Khedache was already a veteran of the criminal underworld of Paris when he organized the robbery, and his DNA, found on the ZIP-Ties used to bind Kardashian, broke open.
Wiretaps recorded him that he gave orders, accomplices to recruit and arrange to sell the diamonds in Belgium.
The loot was never found.
Khedache claims that he was only a foot soldier.
He blamed a mysterious “X” or “Ben” – someone to the public prosecutor says he never existed.
Khedache asked for ‘a thousand grace’, according to the French media through a written memorandum. Other defendants also used their last words to express regret.
Chairman David de Pas noted that “the sentences are fairly flexible”, because of the advanced centuries of the robbers and poor health, but he admonished them anyway.
“You did angry,” said the judge.
