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

During the investigation, the actor, who won a Caesarean in 2019 for his role in “Shéhérazade”, explained that he had been under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The Marseillais also wanted to prove to his friends in the neighborhood that he was still one of them.

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

“Today I’m almost wasted”defended the 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, referring to his 2019 César award for his small-time role in the film Scheherazade. 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.

Indicted in two other cases

Between April and July 2019, he committed a series of snatchings, with 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 in the same way: approach on a scooter, snatch 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 the others, he apologizes the 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.