It's judgment day for the "Grandpa Robbers" gang of suspects accused of stealing $10 million worth of jewelry from a tied-up Kim Kardashian in Paris in 2016 ... 10 defendants received their verdicts Friday.
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00:00Just moments ago, the verdict came in in Paris for the defendants in the Kim K jewelry heist.
00:07It sounds like we were just told back there most of them were found guilty.
00:12We do have an update from Paris.
00:15These details are coming in right now.
00:17Essentially, the ringleader has been convicted as well as seven others.
00:23Two people have been acquitted.
00:25This is the October 2016 jewelry heist in which Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in her hotel room.
00:34A $10 million worth of jewelry was taken.
00:37None of that jewelry has ever been recovered other than one piece of a necklace that was found on a Paris street the day of.
00:45Aside from that, everything else is still missing.
00:48I'm interested in who are the two people that were acquitted?
00:51We don't know who was acquitted just yet.
00:54There are some minor characters.
00:56The ringleader himself has been convicted.
01:00We're still waiting to find out a penalty phase.
01:02This man is actually, he's deaf, and he's been testifying by handwritten notes.
01:08He wrote a note to Kim during her testimony apologizing.
01:12Yes, he did.
01:12She accepted the apology.
01:14He did that last week when she was actually in court in Paris.
01:17He did it again today, further apologized.
01:21It should be noted Kim did forgive him in court last week.
01:24Although she said she's forever traumatized by the situation.
01:28Did they charge them with kidnapping as well as?
01:33Kidnapping, robbery, and other minor charges.
01:36We're still waiting on the whole breakdown of what that's happening.
01:39It's actually being read out in court right now as we speak.
01:41Well, you know what's really interesting?
01:42I want to go back to you, Owen.
01:44When you find out what the two people who were acquitted, I want to know about that.
01:48Yeah, absolutely.
01:49Really interesting.
01:49You know what else is interesting is that, you know, these are older people.
01:53Yeah.
01:53I wonder what kind of sentence, because they could easily be sentenced for the rest of their lives.
01:57Is the judge going to do that?
01:58They've been called the grandpa robbers in the press over in France, because most of them
02:02are in their 60s and 70s.
02:04I think the youngest guy is 35.
02:06Somebody else is in their 40s, and everybody else is in advanced age.
02:11Which is really interesting.
02:12I wonder what the judge does in terms of sentencing, because obviously they could sentence him effectively
02:17to the rest of their life.
02:18Do they do that?
02:20You know, if they're ill, do they not do that?
02:22I think 10 years was the maximum.
02:25A couple of the other possible sentences are between 6 and 8, so we're still finding out
02:30Wait a minute.
02:30Are you telling me 10 years for kidnapping and robbery?
02:34I mean, kidnapping at gunpoint and robbery at gunpoint, that's a serious crime.
02:39No, you're saying that 10 years in this country, it would be a lot longer.
02:43You could get life sentences here are much more severe than the rest of the world.
02:48That is really interesting.
02:50So we're just finding out right now, the ringleader got a sentence of 8 years in prison with 5 years
02:57suspended.
02:585 years are suspended.
02:595 years have been suspended, so it's still kind of unclear, but it sounds like the court
03:04took that into consideration, his old age and his infirmity.
03:07Mahilda Patterson, Kentucky.
03:09You know, kudos to Kim K for standing up to these criminals and demanding justice.
03:14Let's not forget that she wore $7 million worth of jewelry to the trial.
03:19Epic.
03:19Love her or hate her, she deserved justice in this situation.
03:22I can't even imagine what she went through.