Guilty verdicts for 8 of 10 charged with armed robbery of Kim Kardashian

A verdict has been reached in the trial of the alleged “grandpa robbers” accused of stealing millions of dollars of Kim Kardashian’s jewelry, officials said Friday.
PARIS — Eight people were convicted Friday of crimes connected to the 2016 hotel robbery of Kim Kardashian, who lost millions of dollars in jewels during the terrifying heist.
One of the 10 defendants was fully acquitted on charges of planning and carrying out the armed robbery during Paris Fashion Week in 2016, while another was convicted on a weapons charge that arose from the Kardashian probe — but wasn’t directly tied to the original crime.
Defendants were cleared of kidnapping allegations but three were convicted of a lesser, similar charge of sequestration with no voluntary liberation as Kardashian was bound at the scene but let there to be found safely.
Years of French bureaucracy delayed the trial by almost a decade, despite the defendants being arrested just months later after police found DNA at the scene.
The three judges and six jurors delivered their verdict shortly after 8 p.m. local time, or 2 p.m. ET. The panel of nine had to reach a super majority of seven for a charge to be adjudicated.
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