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, finding eight of the 10 defendants in the guilty case, while absorbing two others.
The defendants have 10 days to appeal the ruling.
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.
