The jury in Kim Kardashian’s Paris theft trial has retired to contemplate its verdict after a key defendant made a last-minute plea for forgiveness. Aomar Aït Khedache, generally known as Outdated Omar, supplied ‘a thousand apologies’ to Kim Kardashian earlier than the jury withdrew on Could 23.
“I can’t discover the phrases to say how sorry I’m,” Aomar Aït Khedache wrote on a bit of paper, which was proven in court docket. Now partially deaf and virtually mute as a consequence of poor well being, he begged for forgiveness, including, “I provide a thousand apologies.”
Aït Khedache is one in every of 10 individuals, 9 males and one lady, on trial within the French capital for his or her roles within the 2016 armed theft. The costs embrace armed theft and kidnapping in an organised gang, as per DailyMail.
Kim Kardashian misplaced round USD 10 million in jewelry through the October 2016 theft. The stolen objects included a USD 4 million engagement ring from her ex-husband, rapper Kanye West. That ring has by no means been recovered.
The incident occurred inside her personal condominium on the No Handle Lodge in Paris. Kardashian testified by way of video through the trial and mentioned she feared for her life. When Choose David De Pas requested if she thought she would die, she replied, “Completely, I used to be sure I used to be going to die.”
Prosecutor Normal Anne-Dominique Merville requested a 10-year jail sentence for Aït Khedache, stating that though he was of a complicated age and never thought of a threat to reoffend, he nonetheless wanted to be held accountable for his crimes. She additionally said that Khedache, whose DNA was discovered on the scene, was minimizing the extent of violence concerned within the theft.
An analogous 10-year sentence was looked for 72-year-old Yunice Abbas, the one different defendant to plead responsible. Whereas in custody, Abbas wrote a ebook titled I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian, which prosecutors used as proof within the trial. Addressing the court docket, he expressed his remorse and apologized for his actions.
Didier Dubreucq who allegedly entered Kardashian’s condominium with Aït Khedache, additionally faces a 10-year sentence as reported by DailyMail. Lesser sentences had been requested for the remaining members of the group, nicknamed the Grandpa Robbers as a consequence of their age.
One feminine defendant, Cathy Glotin, beforehand Aït Khedache’s mistress, denied any involvement. “I had nothing to do with this case and sit up for being reunited with my household,” she mentioned. Prosecutors imagine she helped present burner telephones and traveled to Antwerp with Aït Khedache to promote stolen jewelry.
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