Actor Dylan Robert sentenced to three years in prison for necklace snatching

He was also sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, suspended for two years, with a committal warrant.

From cinema to prison. The César for best male hopeful, Dylan Robert, was sentenced on Friday March 15 to three years in prison for having participated in a series of necklace snatchings in Marseille in 2019. He was also sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, suspended for two years, with a committal warrant.

“Today I’m almost wasted”defended 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. “I was experiencing extraordinary things on the one hand”he explains, after being awarded the César in February 2019. But on the other hand, in his neighborhood of Marseille, he fell back into “a spiral” of delinquency. “I needed money” And “the Cannes festival is not paid”he explains, five years after the fact.

He apologizes from the “deepest part of his heart”

Between April and July 2019, he committed a series of snatch thefts, the investigating judge retaining around fifteen. With one of his neighborhood friends, now on the run, sentenced in his absence to five years in prison, they always proceeded the same way: approach on a scooter, tear off a piece of jewelry, with violence if necessary, and flee. . Assures him that not all the thefts are his fault. He was also acquitted of four of them on Friday. But for others, he apologizes most “deep of [s]we heart.”

Dylan Robert is also indicted for assassination and attempted assassination by an organized gang in the investigation into the murder of a teenager at a deal point in August 2021 in Marseille. The young man will also be tried on October 25 in another case, a case of carjacking.