seven defendants sentenced to between two and sixteen years in prison

They will go through the prison box. The Paris Assize Court sentenced, on Friday January 21, 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. After more than thirteen hours of deliberation, only one of the seven defendants, Philippe Enriquez, was convicted of the two armed robberies, as well as that of a briefcase containing 20,000 euros in a vehicle. Brink’s, to a sentence of sixteen years’ imprisonment.

One of the two men described by the prosecution as his “lieutenant”, judged by default, was found guilty of the robbery at Chanel and sentenced to thirteen years in prison. The other defendant, on the other hand, 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 about fifteen jewels and watches with a total value of 2, 2 million euros had been won 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.

On December 11, 2015, a few weeks after the attacks of November 13, watches and jewelry worth around one million euros were stolen by a man who, according to the prosecution, was wearing a latex mask. transparent, distorting his features.