5 h. ago ‘Grandpa robber’ admits involvement in Kim Kardashian jewel heist

Aomar Aït Khedache, 68, told court he was in part driven by taste for easy money after armed robbery of reality TV starA retired restaurant-owner alleged to have been the ringleader of an armed robbery of American reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris, has told a court he was in part driven by a taste for easy money.Aomar Aït Khedache, 68, known as “Old Omar”, has admitted to police that he took part in the robbery in which Kardashian was tied up and held hostage at gunpoint in her Paris hotel bedroom during Paris fashion week in 2016. But he has denied the prosecution’s accusation that he was the organiser or ringleader of the jewel heist in the early hours of 3 October 2016, which was the biggest robbery of an individual in France in 20 years. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Kardashian jewel heist: ‘Grandpa robber’ partly driven by taste for easy money, court hears

Aomar Aït Khedache, 68, has admitted involvement in armed robbery of reality TV star but denies being ringleaderA retired restaurant owner alleged to have been the ringleader of an armed robbery of American reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris, has told a court he was in part driven by a taste for easy money.Aomar Aït Khedache, 68, known as “Old Omar”, has admitted to police that he took part in the robbery in which Kardashian was tied up and held hostage at gunpoint in her Paris hotel bedroom during Paris fashion week in 2016. But he has denied the prosecution’s accusation that he was the organiser or ringleader of the jewel heist in the early hours of 3 October 2016, which was the biggest robbery of an individual in France in 20 years. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Kim Kardashian's Paris robber admits 'regret' as he stands trial £7.5m jewellery heist

One of the gang members involved in robbing US reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris in 2016 has admitted the guilt he feels over the crime in which around £7.5m worth of jewellery was taken

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58 h. ago Watch live: Kim Kardashian robbery trial begins in Paris over 2016 jewel heist

Watch live as Kim Kardashian’s Paris robbery trial begins on Monday, 27 April, with ten people facing trial over the $10m jewellery heist.

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3 d. ago Suspect in Kardashian jewel heist case plans to take responsibility for his role at Paris trial

One of the suspects in the 2016 armed robbery of Kim Kardashian said he plans to take responsibility for his role in the heist

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9 d. ago ‘Grandpa robbers’ accused of Kim Kardashian jewel heist to face Paris trial

Armed thieves broke into reality TV star’s flat in France in 2016, making off with possessions worth millions of eurosA group of pensioners nicknamed the “grandpa robbers” will go on trial in Paris next week, charged with stealing jewellery worth millions of euros from the US TV reality star Kim Kardashian when she attended Paris fashion week in 2016.In what was considered the biggest robbery of an individual in France in 20 years, Kardashian was tied up and held hostage at gunpoint in her bedroom in central Paris by armed thieves dressed as police officers in the early hours of 3 October 2016. The thieves escaped with up to an estimated €10m in jewellery. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Diamond Heist review – Guy Ritchie’s thrilling tale of the failed Millennium Dome jewel robbery

This three-part documentary about the attempt to steal hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of diamonds is pacey and stylish – but it definitely didn’t need to glamorise the real-life violenceI suppose the wonder is that it has taken Guy Ritchie so long to get around to telling the story of the Millennium Dome robbery, in which – way back at the turn of the century, children – a group of south-east London criminals ram-raided a national joke in pursuit of the 203-carat Millennium Star diamond worth £200m, which De Beers had unaccountably agreed to display in the capital’s gangster heartland.Strictly speaking, Richie himself is not telling it; the three-part documentary The Diamond Heist comes from Oscar and Emmy award-winning company Lightbox and is executive produced by Ritchie. But the subject matter is so perfectly him that any meaningful separation in your mind as you watch it collapses quicker than a Greenwich exhibition venue’s shutters under the weight of a JCB driven at spe...

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