Yunice Abbas, one of the suspects of armed robbery of Kim Kardashiansaid he intended to take responsibility for his role in the BAFRE 2016 And will apologize to the court While the trial begins Monday in Paris.
Abbas, 71, who publicly recognized his participation in the robbery, is one of the 10 suspects faced with accusations of kidnapping and armed robbery.
“I'm going to apologize,” Abbas told the Associated Press. “I mean sincerely.”
Kardashian, 44, should testify in person during the trial Scheduled for the execution of May 23.
In interviews and on her Millions of dollars in jewelry In an apartment where she stayed for the Paris Fashion Week.
She said she thought she was going to be raped and killed.
“They wrapped adhesive tape on my eyes and my mouth”, she said, describing the flight. “It was the most frightening thing I have ever lived in my whole life, just thinking that, you know, you are about to die. You just prepare for the moment when they are going to shoot you and kill you. These 10 minutes have really changed all my life.”
Kardashian should testify in person during the trial in Paris (Getty)
Abbas said he had acted as a belvedere at the reception on the ground floor, ensuring that the escape road was clear. He said that he was not armed and that he did not personally threaten Kardashian, but recognized that he was sharing the responsibility of the crime.
He was arrested in January 2017 and spent 21 months in prison before being released under judicial supervision.
In 2021, he co-wrote a French language Kim Kardashian.
In her story to the investigators, Kardashian described two men forcing their way in his room and pointing a weapon to her, asking herring.
She said that she was attached with plastic cables and adhesive tape while the intruders were looking for jewelry, including her engagement ring worth millions of dollars.
In an appearance in 2020 on David Letterman's Netflix Show, she remembers tears of thought: “It's the moment when I'm going to be raped. I say to myself:” What's going on? Are we going to die? Just tell them that I have children. I have babies, I have a husband, I have a family “.”
She told investigators that the men brought her to the bathroom before fleeing and she managed to free herself.
The concierge of the residence, held under the threat of a firearm and forced to lead thieves to his apartment, also underwent a psychological impact.
Investigators found Abbas DNA on plastic links used to attach the concierge's hands.
Yunice Abbas is one of the suspects of Kim Kardashian (AP)
Questioned The trauma that Kardashian sufferedAbbas said: “It's true, I didn't think about it. I recognize that because I have not brutalized it myself … I did not blame myself for this aspect, and yet I am responsible for this too.”
According to Abbas, a few minutes after the start of the raid, his accomplices came down from Kardashian's apartment and gave him a bag of jewelry.
While fleeing the premises on a bike, he saw a police car, but the police were not yet aware of the flight.
Abbas said that by bicycle, the bag containing the jewelry was caught in the front wheel and that it fell on the ground, overthrowing the contents of the bag. “I picked up the jewelry and I left,” he said.
The next morning, a passer -by found a cross inlaid with diamonds in the street and gave it to the police. It was the only jewel of the flight that was recovered.
French justice considered that the articles stolen worth $ 6 million in total.
Abbas said he did not know the identity of Kardashian at the time of the flight.
“I was told about a famous person, the woman of a rapper. This is all the information I had,” he said. “Until the next morning, when I heard on television about the influencer. It was then that I understood who she was.”
He said that he would detail his role during the trial, to conduct with a jury, a procedure in France Reserved for the most serious crimes. But he would not denounce his accomplices.
“I am only a stranger. I am not the one who organized the case. I take my share of responsibility,” he said.
Most suspects have denied participation, with the exception of Abbas and another man whose DNA was also found on the scene.
Thierry Niemen, the journalist who co-wrote Abbas's book, said that Abbas had approached him because he wanted to “tell his own truth” in the midst of what he considered inaccurate or sensationalized stories.
The book has also revealed details of investigation, including how the FBI helped the French police identify Abbas's DNA, despite being wearing gloves.
“This is the case for all superlatives,” said Niemen. “The FBI supervising an investigation into French territory – it's already a superlative.”
Kardashian was then the best influencer in the world and the case was the most popular subject on social networks in 2016, said Niemen.
Abbas' revenues from the book were frozen while waiting for the process of the trial.
Kardashian's lawyer Michael Rhodes said that the reality TV star and the entrepreneur wanted the trial “to be ordered in accordance with French law and with respect for all the parties to the case”.
