(13 May 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris – 13 May 2025
1. Tracking shot Abderrahmane Ouatiki, center, flanked by his lawyers Mohand Ouidja, left, and Henri de Beauregard
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Abderrahmane Ouatiki, defendant
(Reporter: Is it fair, the way you’ve been treated so far in the court?)
"At the beginning, no, really no, but now we are like, I hope, I hope that justice will make it’s work and let it be justice."
3. Medium Abderrahmane Ouatiki, center, talks to press flanked by his lawyers Mohand Ouidja, left, and Henri De Beauregard
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Mohand Ouidja, lawyer for Abderrahmane Ouatiki:
"We’ll come back later to tell you what his life has been like since it happened, almost nine years since then, and we’ll give you more details."
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Henri de Beauregard, lawyer for Abderrahmane Ouatiki:
"We also hope that this afternoon Mrs Kardashian will have the opportunity to have some words for him. Because that hasn’t been the case for a whole host of reasons so far. On the contrary, he’s had a hard time with the suspicions that have been cast on him. And I think it would be fair in a way if she also had the opportunity to pay tribute to the way he behaved that day, that is to say with true professionalism."
6. Arthur Vercken, lawyer of defendant Gary Madar, walks down corridor
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Arthur Vercken, lawyer of defendant Gary Madar:
"For us, Madame Kardashian is a victim of a robbery, and we are suspected to have a role in this robbery. And we pertain we don’t have any role in the robbery. So we will listen Madame Kardashian with respect for her pain and her losses. But she is a victim, right? This is sure. But my client doesn’t have any role, and he’s very… I don’t know the word in French, in English, but it’s a pity for Madame Kardashian. He’s sorry for that."
8. Wide shot Arthur Vercken speaking to press
9. Wide shot corridor as police walk past
10. Wide shot corridor as lawyer walks past on phone
11. Arthur Vercken walks down corridor, exchanges glances with Mohand Ouidja, who is talking to press
12. Wide shot corridor, police walk past
AP VIDEO SHOT BY: Alex Turnbull and Patrick Hermansen
STORYLINE:
The last time Kim Kardashian faced the men that police say robbed her, she was bound with zip ties and held at gunpoint, and feared she might die. On Tuesday, nearly a decade later, she returns to Paris to testify against them.
One of the most recognizable figures on the planet is expected to take the stand against the 10 men accused of orchestrating the 2016 robbery that left her locked in a marble bathroom while masked assailants made off with more than $6 million in jewels.
Kardashian is set to speak about the trauma that reshaped her life and redefined the risks of celebrity in the age of social media. Her appearance is expected to be the most emotionally charged moment of a trial that began last month.
Court officials have been bracing for a crowd, and security is tight. A second courtroom has been opened for journalists following via video feed.
Kardashian’s testimony is expected to revisit, in painful detail, how intruders zip-tied her hands, demanded her ring, and left her believing she might never see her children again.
Twelve suspects were originally charged. One has died. Another has been excused from proceedings due to serious illness. Most are in their 60s and 70s — dubbed les papys braqueurs, or “the grandpa robbers,” by the French press — but investigators insist they were no harmless retirees. Authorities have described them as a seasoned and coordinated criminal group.
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/374339aea40843afb4b214853d2ba14d
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in May 18, 2025, 12:04 pm.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
