A group dubbed the “grandpa robbers” have been found guilty of crimes connected to the gunpoint robbery of Kim Kardashian at a Paris hotel.
A six-member jury, led by three judges, reached a verdict on Friday following a four-week trial at Paris’s Palais de Justice.
The court found the ringleader and seven others guilty over the 2016 robbery.
It acquitted two of the 10 defendants.
Nine men and one woman, with an average age of 70, were facing charges including armed robbery, kidnapping and gang association.
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They were accused of pulling off one of the most audacious heists against a celebrity in modern French history in the early hours of 3 October 2016, storming Kardashian‘s luxury hotel apartment and stealing jewellery worth an estimated $6m (£4.4m) at gunpoint.
During the robbery, Kardashian, who previously told the court she thought she would be raped and killed, was bound with zip-ties and left in the bathtub.
She described the robbery as “terrifying” and said while she felt forgiveness, that in no way altered “the emotion and the feelings and the trauma,” adding “my life is forever changed”.
Two members of the group Aomar Ait Khedache, known as “Old Omar”, and Yunice Abbas, who wrote a book called I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian, admitted some part in the robbery, while the remaining eight denied the charges.
Prosecutors had requested sentences of up to 10 years.
Kardashian, who earlier this week completed her six-year legal apprenticeship in California, was not present to hear the verdict.
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The jewellery, which is understood to have been sold in Belgium, was never found.
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