(23 May 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, 23 March 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Leonor Hennerick, Kim Kardashian’s lawyer
"Mrs. Kardashian is now aware of the decision just rendered by the court. She wanted justice to be served. Justice has been served. It’s now done. She can now move on with her life and think of other things."
(Reporter: "What does that imply for her fight in the US regarding justice? Has she told you anything about that?")
"Well, she would continue with her project regarding the rehabilitation of prisoners."
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2. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Abderrahmane Ouatiki. plaintiff
(Reporter: "Do you feel the sentence was correct? Or do you feel wronged?")
"I don’t know. I have to think about it. I’m speechless."
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3. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Pierre Stasse, lawyer
(Reporter: "Do you think justice has been done? Do you think the verdict is fair?")
"We absolutely do. The relief is immense. Our client went through, I think, eight to nine years of a complete nightmare and he has been declared innocent, which is only fair in light of the evidence available to the court.
Reporter: Do you think you your client is gong to be able to move on with his life? Move on ?? (indecipherable)
Stasse: Our client is a hard-working man, and I think that the only thing that he wants is to go back to his private and daily life.
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Reporter: What do you think of the result of the verdict? Is it fair? Is it what you expected?
4. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Mohand Ouidja, lawyer of plaintiff Abderrahmane Ouatiki
(Reporter: "What do you think of the result of the verdict? Is it fair? Is it what you expected?")
"We don’t expect anything because we are a victim. We expect the truth. My English is not good, but a sentences. A sentence and what is important for our client is to win the time but he’s lost nine years, nine years and it’s really difficult for him. But now it’s really important to say that French justice give example of (inaudible) We are—respect the statutes of our client, and this social statutes don’t force now with this trial the sentence. That’s all."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Arthur Vercken, lawyer of Gary Madar
(Reporter: "Is it a fair verdict?")
"Yeah it’s a completely fair verdict for me of course. We are waiting since 9 years for this decision. We are fighting until The Supreme Court and frankly it’s a big day for us, yeah. And for justice.
Reporter: How did your client feel?
Ouidja: "Well he was crying during the decision because he did not believe it. We had so many deceptions and a victory at the end it’s odd in a certain manner."
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6. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Chloe Arnoux, lawyer of defendant Aomar Ait Khedache:
The verdict is really good for us, what we think, because it’s eight years, with five years that he has already done, it’s three years of probation.(…) And we are really relieved, even if we’re exhausted, and the client is relieved as well, because it proves that justice can be served, but not with going to prison for big sentences.
(Reporter: "Will they be able to move on with their lives now?")
"Hopefully, he will be able to cure himself and to move on with his life after nine years with a (indecipherable) above his head.
(Reporter: "You were concerned that they were going to, in fact, get a life sentence (unclear)?")
"We were concerned about that, but the result is that it’s not the case. And we were really hopeful, and we managed to prove to the court that it was not a good decision."
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