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Kim Kardashian robbery: the prosecution requests the return to the assizes of 11 suspects

2020-06-05T11:04:46.772Z


The five alleged robbers and six of their accomplices could be tried at the assizes for this robbery whose booty amounts to 9 million


Four years after the spectacular robbery suffered by Kim Kardashian in Paris, the prosecution has asked for the return to the assizes of eleven people suspected of being involved in this theft of jewelry, we learned this Wednesday from judicial and close sources folder.

It is now up to the examining magistrates to decide whether or not to refer all these suspects, including the five alleged robbers, to the Paris Assize Court for a trial which could not be held before 2021. With a booty of around 9 million euros, the group, described by the police as a gang of old-fashioned crooks, is suspected of having made the biggest robbery at the expense of an individual in the last twenty years in France.

On the night of October 2 to 3, 2016, the American star, then aged 36, was robbed by five men in a discreet luxury hotel residence in Paris, where she came to attend Fashion Week. Two of the thieves had threatened her with a weapon on the temple, before tying her up, gagging her, and then locked her in the bathroom.

"Omar the old" claims to have melted the gold jewelry

The robbers had taken several diamond and gold jewels, including one 18.88 carat stone, valued at nearly four million euros. Their presumed chief, Aomar Aït Khedache, known as "Omar the old man", affirmed to the investigators to have entrusted the diamond to a person whose identity he has not revealed and to have melted the gold jewelry.

The Paris public prosecutor's office requests that these alleged robbers, now free under judicial supervision, be tried in particular for "organized robbery with a weapon", "kidnapping" and "criminal association", most often in recidivism, according to the judicial source.

The public prosecutor also requests a trial for Marceau Baum-Gartner, alias "Grated nose", suspected of being the receiver of stolen goods, eight times in two months in Antwerp, the jewelery capital, including twice in the company of '"Omar the Old".

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The threat of a trial is also becoming clearer for three close to "Omar the Old": his son, suspected of having played the role of driver, his partner and one of his friends both accused of having participated in the coup organization. The father of one of the robbers is at risk of being tried alongside them for illegal possession of weapons, and the last two indicted for providing information to the gang.

Source: leparis

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