The American star Kim Kardashian suffered a $ 11 million robbery during Paris Fashion Week in 2016. Considered the coup of the century, one of its authors, Yunice Abbas, has just published a book detailing his version of the bizarre heist.
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“J’ai sequestré Kim Kardashian” (I kidnapped Kim Kardashian) is not a story that condones the facts. Abbas accepts them and is even happy that everything went very well and very quickly. Less than ten minutes passed between arrival and departure, ‘he says in an interview.
Photo / @ kimkardashian He, who is 67 years old, has two children and three grandchildren, did not know the potential victim. All he knew was that she was a famous woman, and being aware of the national and international media echo the next day, he immediately regretted it.
“I said to myself: we are ready because they are going to use all means. Every street camera, every possible witness,” says who, after being in custody for 22 months until October 2018, is now being released for the time being. of judgment.
His group was known as “the band of yayos” because the five members were between 60 and 72 years old. But behind those grandparents were people with criminal past who had planned their coup for weeks, taking advantage of the invisibility that their neutral appearance gave them when examining the future scene of events.
Kardashian and some of her entourage were in the French capital to attend the Fashion Week shows, and on the day of the robbery, the night of October 3, the stars lined up for Abbas and the other henchmen.
The star’s bodyguard, one of her sisters, and the limo driver had gone to a nightclub and her mother was resting in the hotel. She stayed in the rented apartment accompanied by her secretary.
“What we were interested in was his diamond. That appealed to us. He had pictures with him everywhere,” Abbas says of that engagement ring with rapper Kanye West. The surprise came when they also found jewelry borrowed from luxury homes.
A robbery without violence
They entered his home wearing fake police coats. The author of “J’ai sequestré Kim Kardashian” provided the janitor. He captivated him 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 shows, with 203 million followers on Instagram.
But according to him, the theft itself was manual. “There was no need to threaten. She cooperated. Generally it is always the case. There is no reason to resist, it would be foolish,” adds this Frenchman of Algerian descent and living on the outskirts of Paris. .
Kardashian was also tied up and although her secretary hid in the bathroom and called the police, the gang got lucky again: She called 911, the US emergency number, not the French 112, which gave them plenty of time to get the jewelry flights, by bike and also on foot.
Abbas, who has spent a total of about 21 years in prison for other past robberies, was betrayed by the remains of DNA that, despite wearing two gloves, stuck to the rope with which he tied the janitor.
His accomplices were also tracked down, and the trial in the Criminal Court for organized gang robbery and kidnapping, which will accommodate 12 suspects, has at least a year to go.
Abbas, who signed up for the heist because he needed money to get a place to work as a mechanic, says he only received $ 84,270 from the loot and is so clear about his chances of getting back to the prison that he will go to the hearing with a backpack ready.
It’s unlikely he’ll meet Kardashian in person, but if he did, he’d apologize. ‘If you don’t want to or can’t do it, you’re right. I’m sorry but I can’t do more, I can’t go back. ‘
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