It took them more than thirteen hours of deliberation. The jurors of the Paris Assize Court sentenced seven men to sentences ranging from two to sixteen years in prison for their involvement in several crimes, including two robberies committed in 2015 at the jeweler Chopard and in 2016 at Chanel.
Some are childhood friends, others are brothers or cousins. There were ten defendants, now aged between 28 and 41, but three indicted, who contracted Covid-19, will be tried later.
On Wednesday, the Advocate General had requested sentences of eight to twenty years in prison against the seven defendants who had appeared since January 4.
Only one of the seven defendants, Philippe Enriquez, was sentenced for the two armed robberies, as well as that of a briefcase containing 20,000 euros in a Brink’s vehicle, to a sentence of sixteen years’ imprisonment.
One of the two men described by the prosecution as its “lieutenant”, tried in absentia, was found guilty of the Chanel robbery and sentenced to thirteen years in prison.
The second was acquitted of the theft committed on May 19, 2016 in a boutique of the luxury group, on the very chic avenue Montaigne, in Paris, where fifteen jewels and watches with a total value of 2.2 million euros had been scooped up in two minutes.
On the other hand, he was sentenced to ten years in prison for criminal association in view of the preparation of this robbery, as well as for the theft in an organized gang of several Range Rovers, which he admitted, and the concealment in an organized gang of two motorcycles.
His younger brother, also absent at the trial, was sentenced to six years in prison for criminal association in preparation for the theft in a Chopard jewelry store on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, a stone’s throw from the Elysée.
Already in detention for a robbery at the Ritz
On December 11, 2015, a few weeks after the November 13 attacks, watches and jewelry worth around one million euros were stolen by a man who, according to the prosecution, was wearing a transparent latex mask. , distorting his features.
Slimane Zouaoui, already in detention for a robbery committed at the Ritz in 2018, while he was under judicial supervision, is this time sentenced to ten years in prison, for concealment of the loot from Chanel, which has never been found.
Another defendant is sentenced to five years in prison, two of which are closed, for illegal possession of weapons and explosives, which had been found in the trunk of a car in Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis) .
The mechanic who, according to the prosecution, had provided the robbers with the license plate used on one of the vehicles stolen for the robbery at Chopard, was acquitted for this reason. He was sentenced to two years in prison, one of which was closed, for fraud, having obtained a mortgage by means of false payslips.