Eight people were found guilty by a court in Paris on Friday in connection with a brazen robbery against Kim Kardashian nearly a decade ago.
Ms. Kardashian, 44, a reality TV star and entrepreneur, was gagged, bound with zip ties and robbed at gunpoint of jewelry worth millions of dollars at a luxury residence she had rented during Paris Fashion Week in October 2016.
Seven men and one woman were convicted on charges ranging from direct involvement in the robbery to complicity in it. The court sentenced them to three to eight years in prison — far less than what the prosecution had requested — with the sentences mostly or entirely suspended. Counting time already served, none of the defendants will return to prison.
“The sentences are fairly lenient,” David De Pas, the presiding judge, acknowledged as he read the ruling, citing the advanced age and health issues of many of the defendants, as well as their good behavior over the past nine years, as the main reasons. Even so, he added, “you did harm.”
The court — three judges and a six-person jury — cleared two other defendants of involvement in the robbery, including Gary Madar, the brother of Ms. Kardashian’s driver at the time of the heist. Prosecutors had accused them of giving the robbers information about Ms. Kardashian’s schedule.
Reporters had nicknamed the main suspects in the case the “grandpa robbers” — a group of grizzled criminals, most of whom are now in their 60s and 70s, who were accused of staging one of the most daring celebrity heists in France’s recent history.
