Between shadow and light. On February 22, 2019, Dylan Robert enters the world of the seventh art through the front door. Performer of the role of Zachary in the film Scheherazade, he won the César for Most Promising Actor. “Having this César is a ‘welcome to the professional world of cinema’.”, he said, as we can see on Canal +. A few months after the 44th César ceremony, the young man participated in a series of snatch thefts in Marseille between the months of April and July that year, according toAFP. During a theft aimed at stealing bracelets from a 59-year-old woman, the latter “broke his femoral neck“, relate our colleagues. At the end of these flights, the jewelry was resold by weight. If he was sometimes accused of several thefts per day, Dylan Robert denied having committed so many. About fifteen were detained but he was finally acquitted for four of them during his trial.
Friday March 15, 2024, Dylan Robert was finally sentenced to three years in prison. During his trial, the young man revealed that he had struggled to find a balance between his new path and his old life in the neighborhoods of Marseille, as reported byAFPFriday March 15, 2024. “I was experiencing extraordinary things on the one hand. […] I needed money“, he is said to have declared, noting that “the Cannes Film Festival is not paid“.
Dylan Robert targeted by two other investigations
Sentenced to four years of imprisonment, including three years in prison and one year suspended on probation with a warrant of committal, Dylan Robert said he bitterly regrets his actions : “Today, I’m borderline wasted“. Finally, the one who won the César is indicted for assassination and attempted assassination by an organized gang as part of an investigation into the murder of a teenager in August 2021 in Marseille but also in a case of car jacking, for which he will be tried in October 2024.