Ringleader of ‘grandpa gang’ who tied up Kim Kardashian in gun-point Paris theft is located GUILTY along side seven others – 9 years after jewelry heist

The ringleader and 7 participants of a gang that tied up and robbed the billionaire truth TV celebrity Kim Kardashian were discovered in charge by means of a Paris court docket.

Aomar Ait Khedache, 69, not able to talk or pay attention because of sickness, learn the presiding pass judgement on’s verdict from a display screen, as he had adopted the entire trial. He was once sentenced to 8 years in jail, 5 of which have been suspended.

Seven of his co-defendants had been additionally discovered in charge of crimes together with theft in an organised gang, kidnapping, sequestration, acquisition and ownership of guns, aiding an armed gang, annoyed robbery, and complicity in preparation of a legal act.

Most of them additionally won jail sentences, parts of which have been suspended, however all will stroll loose because of time already served.

A jury on the Paris Assizes passed down their verdicts on Friday night after 11 hours of deliberation, prior to one was once instructed he would spend simply 3 years in a cellular. 

Two of the defendants – each regarded as informants who allegedly handed on Ms Kardashian’s motion to the crowd all over Paris Fashion Week – had been acquitted.

‘The sentences are reasonably lenient; they had been considered some distance clear of this severe match, which impacted the civil events. You have brought about hurt, although you didn’t strike, if blood has now not been shed, you’ve gotten brought about worry,’ stated the presiding pass judgement on David De Pas as he passed down the decision. 

Ms Kardashian, 44, who was once now not in court docket nowadays, misplaced $10million-worth of jewelry within the October 2016 raid, together with a $4million engagement ring from her ex-husband, the rapper Kanye West, that hasn’t ever been recovered.

Aomar Aït Khedache (pictured), the ringleader of the robbers, penned a letter of regret while in jail in 2017 to Kim Kardashian

Yunice Abbas arrives for the final day of verdict of the Tronchet trial for the 2016 theft and kidnapping of US superstar Kim Kardashian on the Assize Court of Paris, on May 23, 2025

Franck Berton, left, and Chloe Arnaux, legal professionals for Khedache, one of the vital males accused within the 2016 armed theft of Kim Kardashian, react after the decision within the trial of Kim Kadashian heist, Friday, May 23, 2025 in Paris

In a observation launched after the trial, Kardashian stated she was once ‘deeply thankful to the French government for pursuing justice on this case.’

‘The crime was once essentially the most terrifying enjoy of my existence, leaving a long-lasting have an effect on on me and my circle of relatives. While I’ll by no means omit what took place, I imagine within the energy of expansion and duty and pray for therapeutic for all. I stay dedicated to advocating for justice, and selling an even criminal machine,’ Kardashian stated.

Her criminal staff stated, ‘Kim appreciates the court docket’s determination and as soon as once more thank you the French government for treating her with nice admire all through the method. It has been a protracted adventure from that horrible evening again in 2016 to her status courageously in a historical Paris court to confront those criminals. 

‘She seems to be ahead to placing this tragic episode in the back of her, as she continues running to make stronger the legal justice machine on behalf of sufferers, the blameless, and the incarcerated in the hunt for to redeem themselves.’

Prosecutor General Anne-Dominique Merville previous instructed the court docket that Khedache – who has more than one convictions for medicine operating and theft – must spend the following 10 years in jail. 

She stated he was once ‘now of a undeniable age and confirmed no chance of reoffending’ however must ‘pay for his crimes.’

Khedache begged for forgiveness on Friday, simply prior to the jury in Paris retired to believe their verdict.

‘I will be able to’t to find the phrases to mention how sorry I’m,’ he instructed the court docket. Khedache is now virtually mute and partly deaf following years of unwell well being. 

‘I be offering one thousand apologies,’ he scribbled on a work of paper, prior to his claims had been displayed on a display screen within the historical Voltaire Chamber of the court docket. 

During an emotional testimony to the court docket final week, Ms Kardashian stated she had feared she would now not continue to exist the raid.

Trial pass judgement on David De Pas requested her without delay all over court docket wondering: ‘Did you assume you had been going to die, Madam?’

She spoke back: ‘Absolutely, I used to be sure I used to be going to die.’

Khedache first of all denied being the mastermind of the heist, pronouncing there was once a mysterious ‘X or Ben’ who was once in the long run accountable.

But Ms Merville stated there was once considerable evidence that Khedache ‘gave the orders’, after which went to Antwerp, Belgium, to take a look at and promote the swag.

Khedache stated the stolen gold was once melted down and offered, along side the diamonds, however he had ‘no thought’ the place all of it ended up.

Mrs Merville stated he was once ‘now of a undeniable age and confirmed no chance of reoffending’ however must ‘pay for his crimes.’

She stated Khedache, who admitted collaborating within the heist after his DNA was once discovered on the scene, ‘now downplays the violence concerned.’

A 10-year jail sentence was once additionally first of all asked for Yunice Abbas, 72, and the one different defendant to plead in charge.

The legal professional for Abbas, who was once discovered in charge and sentenced to seven years in jail, with 5 suspended, additionally welcomed the decision.

‘It’s a very reasonable determination, it is a very simply determination. (Abbas) is more than happy to be again along with his circle of relatives this night. We’re more than happy with this determination,’ stated the legal professional Gabriel Dumenil.

While on remand, Abbas wrote a ebook known as ‘I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian,’ which changed into a present to prosecutors.

During his personal phrases to the court docket on Friday, Abbas stated: ‘Once once more, I’ve not anything however regrets to give you; I’m sorry for what I did.’

The identical sentence was once asked for Didier Dubreucq, 69, who was once allegedly the second one robber to go into the Kardashian’s penthouse, along side Khedache, who’s sometimes called ‘Old Omar’.

Old Omar claimed a person introduced detailed heist plans to him, together with layouts of the lodge construction and images of Kardashian dressed in the prized jewelry. Listen now

A 10-year jail sentence was once additionally asked for Yunice Abbas, 72, and the one different defendant to plead in charge 

Abderrahmane Ouatiki, proper, who was once running as a lodge receptionist, arrives for the decision within the Kim Kadashian heist all over the Paris Fashion Week in 2016, Friday, May 23, 2025

Defendant Marc Boyer arrives for the decision within the trial of Kim Kadashian heist

Defendant Aomar Ait Khedache arrives for the final day of verdict of the Tronchet trial for the 2016 theft and kidnapping of US superstar Kim Kardashian on the Assize Court of Paris, on May 23, 2025

Last week a sobbing Ms Kardashian instructed the Paris court docket she forgave the defendant

Marc Alexander Boyer, 36 and the youngest member of the crowd, was once sentenced to seven years in jail, with 5 suspended, after it was once proved he entered the Kardashian condo.   

Lesser sentences had been asked for different participants of the crowd who, like Dubreucq, had all denied any wrongdoing.

All of them had been allowed to deal with the court docket for the final time nowadays, prior to the jury retired.

Most of the important thing defendants are of their 60s and 70s, which means they have got been dubbed the ‘Grandpa Robbers’.

There is one lady defendant – Cathy Glotin, 78, who was once as soon as Khedache’s mistress.

She regularly pleaded her innocence, pronouncing on Friday: ‘I had not anything to do with this situation, and sit up for being reunited with my circle of relatives.’

But the veteran legal is alleged to have supplied ‘secretarial products and services’ to the crowd, together with offering burner telephones.

Glotin additionally travelled to Antwerp – the diamond capital of Europe – with Aït Khedache to promote the swag, the prosecution claimed.

Francis Delaporte, 69 and some other gang member, were given a 3 yr suspended sentence, whilst Marc Boyer, 62, was once fined the identical of round £4500 for supplying the antique Mauser pistol used within the raid.

Florus Héroui, 52, and Gary Madar, 34, had been each acquitted after prosecutors didn’t persuade the jury that that they had passed out details about Ms Kardashian’s actions in Paris.

Prosecutors may have requested for sentences of as much as 30 years, however the defendants’ ages and deficient well being are the explanations for slightly low ones asked.

The overwhelming majority of defendants had been imprisoned in January 2017, 3 months after the theft.

But then they had been launched on bail, which means they had been all loose when the trial began in April.

The socialite was once certain and gagged at a lodge room in Paris in October 2016 

Last week a sobbing Ms Kardashian instructed the Paris court docket she forgave the defendant.

The social media celebrity stated: ‘I simply wish to be heard and understood. I respect the letter, the ones phrases. I forgive you. But it does not alternate the emotion and the sentiments, the trauma, and my existence being modified endlessly,’ after the pass judgement on learn aloud an apology be aware written to Kardashian in 2017 by means of Khedache.

‘I got here to Paris for model week, Paris was once at all times a spot that I beloved such a lot. I used to stroll across the town after I aroused from sleep in the midst of the evening. I at all times felt very protected.’ Kardashian instructed the court docket on May 13.

‘It was once round 3 within the morning. I heard stomping up the steps when I used to be in mattress. I stored calling out for my sister and considered one of my best possible pals, however no person responded me. And in my bed room are available in a couple of cops, or what I believed had been cops as they had been in police uniforms,’ she stated, recalling the evening of the theft.

She instructed the court docket that the attackers arrived dressed as cops, with the concierge in handcuffs.

Kardashian described how they tied her fingers with cable ties, dragged her to the tub and pointed a gun at her temple.

One robber gestured towards her ring. ‘Then I heard one of the vital gents forcefully say ‘Ring! Ring!’ in English, with an accessory, pointing’.

The suspects had been accused of tying up Kardashian with zip ties and duct tape prior to making off with jewelry, together with a $4million engagement ring given to her by means of her then-husband rapper Kanye West (now referred to as Ye), in keeping with investigators. 

‘And I used to be nonetheless in such surprise, as a result of truthfully a large number of terrorist assaults had been going down on the earth, and I assumed it was once some form of terrorist assault, and I did not straight away comprehend it was once for my jewelry. 

‘They pulled me again within the room after they realised that they had the whole thing, they usually threw me at the mattress. 

‘I used to be beautiful hysterical and I simply seemed on the concierge and instructed him what’s going to occur to us, I’ve to make it house to my young children,’ Kardashian stated.

She stated at one level she feared she was once going to be raped because the robbers threw her at the mattress and considered one of them grabbed her leg. ‘But he ended up tying me up and closed my legs,’ she added.

Kardashian described how they tied her fingers with cable ties, dragged her to the tub and pointed a gun at her temple

‘I considered my sister, concept she would stroll in and notice me shot lifeless and feature that reminiscence in her endlessly.

‘I completely concept I used to be going to die.

‘After a couple of mins, I did not pay attention the rest, so I (moved over) to the sink, and it was once a marble sink so I minimize my ties.

‘When I were given downstairs, Simone (her stylist) let me know that she had known as my sister Kourtney, and her and the safety had been at the means. We were not certain at that time in the event that they had been going to come back again. So we ran at the balcony to cover within the timber.

‘I bear in mind calling my mother from the timber to let her know what took place. And then I feel whilst we had been looking forward to my safety, we had been seeking to get a hold of a plan, if we must bounce from the window, because it was once only a one-storey construction.’

Kardashian, who as soon as shared just about each and every second of her existence on-line, later said the function that visibility performed.

‘People had been looking at,’ she stated in a 2021 interview. ‘They knew what I had. They knew the place I used to be.’

‘Now I’ve between 4 and 6 safety (group of workers) at house for me to really feel protected. I feel there are individuals who pay attention those tales after which they wish to copycat. My space in Los Angeles was once robbed simply after what took place in Paris.

‘I will be able to’t sleep at evening if there don’t seem to be more than one safety other folks.’

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