One arrives limping, dragging his bad leg, the one in front of him, first-price sneakers and white hair in his sixties, also with a crutch, holds the door to the courtroom, for the third and last day of their trial, at the Paris judicial court.
In the front row, another distributes papillotes to his co-defendants.
So they are the “robber grandpas” as they were first nicknamed.
Not very dashing, certainly, but not so grandpas, the youngest in the box is only 23 years old.
“Gentlemen thieves”, prefer to say several lawyers who tried to save them from prison.
They were all sentenced last Friday to firm sentences of 2 to 4 years in prison, beyond the requisitions.
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These seven men - two of whom appear detained and one who is on the run - were tried for having scoured the rooms of palaces in Paris, Brussels, Geneva... including the Scribe, near the Opera, where the safe of a couple Saudi Arabia was snatched on November 24, 2021. On the surveillance images, the thieves in the dark overcoats could easily pass for regular customers.
They had taken the direction of suites 336 and 337, occupied by a Saudi princely couple.
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