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In 2019, just a few months after his César for Most Promising Actor, Dylan Robert took part in a series of necklace snatches in Marseille. Torn between cinema and delinquency, the young man was sentenced on Friday March 15, 2024 to three years in prison.
“Today I’m almost wasted“, defends the young 24-year-old actor, well-trimmed three-day beard, braid holding back his black hair, in the box of the Marseille criminal court.
February 2019, he won a César for his role as a small striker in the film Scheherazade. His career was launched. “JI experienced extraordinary things on the one hand“, he explains. But from another, in his neighborhood of Marseille, he fell back into “a spiral“. “II needed money” And “the Cannes festival is not paid“, he explains, five years after the events, to the president, recalling his climb to the steps in May 2018.
Dylan Robert, actor and jewel thief: a 59-year-old lady broke her femur
Between April and July 2019, he committed a series of thefts, the investigating judge retaining around fifteen. With one of his friends from the neighborhood, now on the run, sentenced in his absence to five years in prison, they always proceeded the same way: approach on a scooter, snatch a piece of jewelry, with violence if necessary, and leak. Among the injured, a 59-year-old lady broke her femur for three stolen bracelets. The loot was then resold at 25 euros per gram of precious metal.
The courts sometimes accuse him of several thefts per day. Assures him that not all the thefts are his fault. He was also acquitted of four of them on Friday. But for the others, he apologizes most “deep in one’s heart“, ensuring to have “Understood” And “matured“.
He was ultimately sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, including three years in prison and one year suspended for two years, with a committal warrant. A sentence less than the five years in prison required by the prosecutor who quipped: “He doesn’t remember the facts because he committed too many“.
Dylan Robert had ““disconnected in his head”
During the investigation, he explained that he had been under the influence of alcohol and drugs. He also wanted to prove to his neighborhood friends that he was still one of them. His lawyer, Me Valérie Coriatt, tried to explain how it happened.disconnected in his head“, when we proposed to him, the kid who then could neither read nor write, the casting of Scheherazade while he was in a juvenile prison. And his advice to describe the “daydream“, then returning to its “real family“, that “street kids“.
“I never really believed in that luck. It was once it was ruined that I started to understand.”, analyzes the young man who grew up with a single mother described as abusive. On Friday, only his partner came to support him at the hearing. “Life is not a cinema, especially for the victimss”, some of whom are truly traumatized, judged for his part Me Christian Bellais, for the civil parties.
After his award, the actor had increased the number of shoots, between his various stays behind bars: a series on Netflix, Vampires, DNA of Maïwenn, or On the black pathstaken from the novel by Sylvain Tesson with Jean Dujardin.
But each time delinquency catches up with him: “he celebrates his birthday with Jean Dujardin, and he returns to prison“, says his lawyer, after a 30-month sentence for other thefts.
Another trial awaits Dylan Robert
Now other legal deadlines await him: a trial on October 25 in a carjacking case. And an ongoing investigation in which he is indicted and placed in pre-trial detention at Draguignan prison for the narchomicide of a teenager in August 2021 in Marseille. Prosecutions which, according to his lawyer, are “a judicial disgrace in terms of evidence”.
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