(23 May 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 13 May 2025
1. Kim Kardashian arriving at a Paris court to testify
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 23 May 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) John Leicester, The Associated Press:
"It was the night that Kim Kardashian described as the most terrifying night of her life. This is 2016, here in Paris, during Fashion Week, a jewellery heist in her luxury suite here in the French capital. Two men burst in and made off with $6 million dollars worth of jewels. Now, nearly 9 years later, this case has finally come to a trial with a verdict that was delivered this evening here in this Paris courtroom behind me."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 23 May 2025
3. Various of defendant Yunice Abbas and his attorney leaving court
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 23 May 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Leicester, The Associated Press:
"And all of the accused who were found guilty, that’s 8 of them, actually walked out free. The stiffest sentence was 8 years, the most lenient was just a fine. But with time served and time that was given as suspended sentences, none of those who were found guilty will actually go to jail this evening. The chief judge said the jury and the judges who weighed this decision had taken the high ages of the accused into account. Six of them are in their 60s and 70s. They also took into account that it took so long for this case to actually come to trial, and also some of them were in ill health. One of the accused actually died before the trial could take place, and another wasn’t able to take the stand at all."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 23 May 2025
5. Attorney Chloe Arnoux leaving court with her client defendant Aomar Aït Khedache
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 23 May 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) John Leicester, The Associated Press:
"Kim Kardashian herself wasn’t here for the verdict, but she issued a statement thanking the French authorities for bringing this case to justice. It was a moment that changed the way that she lived, afterwards she stopped posting her whereabouts live on her socials, and this will be a moment that she hopes will now enable her to put this to rest and to move on."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 13 May 2025
7. Various of Kim Kardashian leaving Paris court after testifying
STORYLINE:
A Paris court on Friday found the ringleader and seven other people guilty in the 2016 armed robbery of Kim Kardashian, but did not impose any additional time behind bars for their roles in what the U.S. celebrity described as “the most terrifying experience of my life."
The chief judge, David De Pas, said that the defendants’ ages — six are in their 60s and 70s — and their health issues weighed on the court’s decision to impose sentences that he said “aren’t very severe.”
He said that the nine years between the robbery and the trial — long even by the standards of France’s famously deliberate legal system — were also taken into account in not imposing harsher sentences.
The court acquitted two of the 10 defendants.
Aomar Aït Khedache, 69, the ringleader, got the stiffest sentence, eight years imprisonment but five of those were suspended.
Three others got seven years, five of them suspended.
Three more got prison sentences ranging from five to three years, mostly or completely suspended, and an eighth person was found guilty on a weapons charge and fined.
With time already served in pretrial detention, none of those found guilty will go to prison and all walked out free.
The trial was heard by a three-judge panel and six jurors.
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/54a8de5da72747fc967fa887c882d639
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in May 29, 2025, 12:05 am.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
