Almost a decade later Kim Kardashian He survived a heist In his hotel room in Paris, eight defendants were declared guilty of crimes related to theft.
A panel of three judges and six jurors issued the verdict in a Chamber of the Paris Court on Friday. Two of the 10 defendants were acquitted.
In his sentence, the judge said on Friday that he took into consideration the ages of the accused, as well as the time that had passed from the incident, and the clean records of the accused during that time.
The sentences, ranging from three years to a maximum of eight years in prison, were less than what the Prosecutor’s Office requested. The counting time already fulfilled and with the major or completely suspended sentences, none of the defendants will return to prison.
The defendants have 10 days to appeal the ruling.
Kim Kardashian was informed of the ruling and will not appeal, according to his lawyer, Leonor Hennerick.
“Kim Kardashian is aware of the decision and is satisfied,” Hennerick told journalists outside the courtroom. “Justice has been served and can now move on. He will continue with his rehabilitation project.”
Nine men and a woman were accused in relation to theft. Five masked men who passed the police supposedly broke into the Kardashian hotel suite and went with value objects worth at least $ 6 million, including a diamond commitment ring given to Kardashian for her then husband Kanye West. It was said that this ring was only worth approximately $ 4 million.
Kardashian traveled to Paris to testify During the trial, tell the courtroom that he thought he was going to die “during theft.
“I absolutely thought that I was going to die,” said reality shows and businessman in his testimony of May 13, adding: “I kept telling them that I had babies and that I needed to go home with my babies.”
Kim Kardashian leaves the Palace of Justice after testifying, with respect to a theft of millions of dollars in jewels of his hotel room in Paris in 2016, in Paris, on May 13, 2025.
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In his testimony, Kardashian, a mother of four children, said he was packing around 3 in the morning during Paris Fashion Week in 2016 when “two men entered my room, they were dressed as police officers.” The men led the hotel jet, which was handcuffed, told the court.
Kardashian told the judge that he was tied, gagged and thrown into a bathroom.
She testified that, although she was still tied in the bathroom, she managed to slide towards the sink and release her hands. With his feet still tied, he said he jumped down, where her friend, Simone Herouche, helped her disable her.
The French authorities announced the arrests of the suspects in the robbery in January 2017.
The suspects have been collectively called the “grandparents thief”, or “Braqueurs” Braqueurs “, because many of them are over 60 years old.
Initially there were 12 defendants in this case, one of whom has died since then. Another person cannot be judged due to their medical condition, according to the French authorities.
Joe Simonetti of ABC News, Will Gretsky, Aicha El Hammar Castano, Kevin Shalvey, Bill Hutchinson and Hugo Leenhardt contributed to this report.
