The American star Kim Kardashian suffered in 2016, during Paris Fashion Week, a theft valued at $ 11 million. It was considered the coup of the century and one of its authors, Yunice Abbas, has just published a book with her version of the robbery robbery.
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“J’ai Sequestre Kim Kardashian” (I kidnap Kim Kardashian) is not a story that whitens the facts. Abbas takes them on and even welcomes the fact that everything happened “very well and very quickly. Not even ten minutes passed between arrival and departure,” he explains in an interview.
Photo / @ kimkardashian He, who is 67, has two children and three grandchildren, did not know the potential victim. She only knew that she was a famous woman, and as for the next day she was aware of the media, national and international echo, she regretted it at the time.
“I said to myself: We are finished because they will put all the means. Every street camera, every possible witness,” says who, after having been detained for 22 months, until October 2018, is now on probation. awaiting trial.
His group was known as “the band of grandparents” because its five members were between 60 and 72 years old. But behind these grandparents were people with a criminal past who planned their coup for weeks, taking advantage of the invisibility their bland appearance gave them when examining the future site of events.
Kardashian and part of her entourage were in the French capital to attend Fashion Week catwalks, and on the day of the robbery, the night of October 3, the stars lined up for Abbas and the other accomplices. .
The star’s bodyguard, one of his sisters and the limousine driver had gone to a nightclub, and his mother was resting at the hotel. She stayed in the rented apartment accompanied by her secretary.
“What interested us was his diamond. That was what attracted us. I had photos with him everywhere,” Abbas explains of this engagement ring with rapper Kanye West. The surprise came when they also found jewelry borrowed from luxury homes.
A robbery without violence
With fake police jackets they entered his residence. The author of “J’ai Sequestre Kim Kardashian” was in charge of the concierge. He tied his hands and the rest of the group took him to the apartment to use as a translator because he spoke English.
Abbas never got to know the quintessential queen of reality TV shows, with 203 million followers on Instagram.
But, according to his own version, the theft itself was manual. “There was no need to threaten. She collaborated. In general it is always so. There is no reason to resist, it would be silly,” adds this Frenchman of Algerian origin and resident on the outskirts of Paris.
Kardashian was also handcuffed and although her secretary hid in the bathroom and called the police, the gang was lucky again: she dialed 911, the American emergency number, and not the French 112, which gave them enough time to grab the jewels and run away, by bike and also on foot.
Abbas, who has been imprisoned for a total of almost 21 years due to other robberies in the past, was betrayed by the remains of DNA which, despite wearing two gloves, remained on the rope with which tied up the concierge.
His accomplices were also located and on trial in the Criminal Court for organized gang robbery and kidnapping, which will sit on the bench to 12 suspects, he has at least a year left.
Abbas, who signed up for the robbery because he needed money to get a place to work as a mechanic, says he received only $ 84,270 from the loot and is so clear about his chances of re-entering the prisoner who will go to the audience with a backpack prepared for it.
He is unlikely to match Kardashian in person, but to do so would apologize. “If he doesn’t want to or can’t he is in his right. I’m sorry, but I can’t do more, I can’t go back.”
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