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Kyiv Reels from Its Deadliest Strike in Months; Pope's Legacy on Elevating Women in Catholic Church; Fact Checking Trump's Claims about Price of Groceries and Gas; Trial for 'Grandpa Gang' to Begin Next Week in Paris. Aired 12-12:45a ET
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Donald to Vladimir. Stop! I'm not happy. Ahead on CNN NEWSROOM --
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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: I didn't like last night. I wasn't happy with it.
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VAUSE: In what some describe as a rebuke of the Russian president, Donald Trump criticizes a deadly Russian strike on Kyiv as unnecessary. And the timing was very bad.
Relations between Pakistan and India go from bad to really bad.
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NARENDRA MODI, INDIAN PRIME MINISTER: We will pursue them to the ends of the earth.
(END VIDEO CLIP) VAUSE: As India's prime minister vows to catch the militants who opened fire, killing dozens of tourists in Kashmir.
And nine years after many delighted in blaming the victim --
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You cannot display your wealth and then be surprised that some people want to share it with you.
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VAUSE: Kim Kardashian will come face to face in a Paris courtroom with the man accused of stealing her jewelry at gunpoint.
ANNOUNCER: Live from Atlanta, this is CNN NEWSROOM with John Vause.
VAUSE: We begin with the fallout from the deadliest Russian strike on Ukraine's capital in nine months.
At least 12 people were killed, about 90 others wounded, and multiple residential buildings left badly damaged during the hours-long barrage of missiles and drones.
But it's the timing of the attack, with both sides locked in ceasefire talks, which has sparked the most anger.
The Ukrainian president described it as one of Russia's most outrageous attacks. Even U.S. President Donald Trump publicly called out Russia on social media. He wrote, "The airstrikes were not necessary. The timing was bad." And he pleaded with Vladimir, a reference to the Russian president, to stop.
President Trump warned Putin of unspecified consequences if the strikes continued, and when asked why the U.S. has not applied more pressure on the Kremlin to agree to a ceasefire, he pushed back.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why are you not putting more pressure on Russia? I know a lot of Europeans -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
TRUMP: Putting a lot of pressure? You don't know what pressure I'm putting on Russia. They're dealing. You have no idea what pressure I'm putting on Russia. We're putting a lot of pressure.
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VAUSE: Despite vague threats and public declarations of unhappiness from the U.S. president, his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is still scheduled to hold talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow later Friday. This will be their fourth face to face meeting.
Notably, Witkoff, a former real estate developer, has never met with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. For more than 11 hours, families in Kyiv huddled in fear, taking cover in bomb shelters and safe rooms as the pre-dawn hours were rocked by the sound of Russian airstrikes.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports now on a night of terror, death, and destruction in the Ukrainian capital.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): It was one of the most brutal aerial blitzes since the start of the war.
First responders frantically continue the search for possible survivors. Dozens confirmed killed or wounded, Kyiv says.
"I don't see strong pressure on Russia nor new sanctions packages against the aggression of the Russian federation," he said.
President Trump reacting, saying he's not happy about the strikes.
TRUMP: I didn't like last night. I wasn't happy with it. And we're in the midst of talking peace, and missiles were fired. And I was not happy with it.
PLEITGEN: But Russian state TV in full breaking news mode, claiming the strikes targeted military infrastructure in locations across Ukraine.
"These videos show the unsuccessful attempts of Ukrainian air defense to shoot down Russian missiles," the anchor says. At the moment, there is no specific information about which objects in Kyiv were the target.
The attacks come just hours before President Trump's special negotiator, Steve Witkoff, is expected back in Moscow for another possible meeting with Vladimir Putin. Steve Witkoff recently telling Tucker Carlson he trusts Russia's leader.
TUCKER CARLSON, PODCASTER: What did you think of him?
STEVE WITKOFF, TRUMP'S SPECIAL NEGOTIATOR: I liked him.
CARLSON: Yes.
WITKOFF: I thought he was straight up with me. In the second visit that I had, you know, it got personal. The president, President Putin, had commissioned a beautiful portrait of the -- of President Trump from the leading Russian artist and actually gave it to me and asked me to take it home to President Trump, which I brought home and delivered to him.
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PLEITGEN (voice-over): CNN recently got an exclusive look at that portrait from the Russian artist the Kremlin commissioned to paint it. He said he was told it could help improve U.S.-Russia relations, as Moscow remains firmly in control of the pace of negotiations towards a possible ceasefire with Ukraine.
The Kremlin saying they want a peace agreement but on Russia's terms.
"We and President Putin are in favor of achieving peace while ensuring the interests of our country," the Kremlin spokesman says. "This is a mandatory condition."
And a senior senator in Moscow tells me Russia's leadership will not be pressured into a deal.
PLEITGEN: Trump has threatened massive sanctions if this doesn't work out.
ANDREY KILMOV, RUSSIAN SENATOR: Sanctions cannot change Russian national interests and our possibility to follow our interests. It is not possible.
PLEITGEN (voice-over): And the Russians believe they have a good chance to get their way, both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.
Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Moscow.
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VAUSE: With us now, Jill Dougherty, a CNN contributor and former CNN Moscow bureau chief, as well as author of the new book, "My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin," available now.
Jill, it's good to see you. Congratulations on the book.
JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Thank you very much, John.
VAUSE: OK, so, now a lot is being made of Donald Trump, you know, calling out the Russian president. Let's take a closer look at that.
He wrote -- the anger, it isn't quite palpable in this -- in this message. Trump writes he's not happy. His biggest criticism about the airstrikes is that they were unnecessary and the timing was bad.
And then we had this all-caps plea not to Putin, but to "Vladimir" to stop.
You know, a slap in the face with a piece of wet lettuce would have more sting to it. And the U.S. president explained back in February why he is showing so much deference to Putin. Here he is.
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TRUMP: You want me to say really terrible things about Putin and then say, Hi, Vladimir, how are we doing on the deal?
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VAUSE: In other words, it's all about the deal.
Ukraine's president has suggested the airstrikes were a way to pressure the White House in the ceasefire negotiations. If that's true, then how will this message from Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin be heard in the Kremlin?
DOUGHERTY: You know, I think this, "Stop, Vladimir." Really? I mean, you're laughing about it. And in a way, it does have that quality. You know, it's like, "Stop, Vladimir."
Instead of something that is not just words. I mean, seriously, you can do things that send messages with action. And so far, President Trump is not taking any action against Vladimir Putin.
And that was a particularly major attack on Ukraine, especially on Kyiv, that happened right before this, that precipitated that statement by President Trump.
But I don't think the Kremlin is paying much attention. I haven't seen much coverage at all of it. And even if they did mention it, there's no way, you know, that Putin wants to be dictated to by Trump. It just doesn't make sense.
So, I think it's -- it's pretty useless at this point. Actions speak louder than words.
VAUSE: And Russia's foreign minister didn't make mention of this rebuke when he was speaking to CBS News. Here he is talking about how the ceasefire negotiations are progressing. Here he is.
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SERGEY LAVROV, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: The president of the United States, believes -- and I think rightly so -- that we are moving in the right direction. The statement by the president mentions a deal, and we are ready to reach a deal.
But there are still some specific points, elements of this deal which need to be fine-tuned.
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VAUSE: There always seems to be just a few more tweaks needed here and a couple of changes there. Is the calculation here, the longer these negotiations drag on, the more concessions the U.S. president will likely make to Russia, like giving up Crimea?
DOUGHERTY: I actually think that is part of it. I mean, you know, No. 1, look at it this way. Vladimir Putin now has a dialog going on with the United States and with Trump. They've talked to each other on the phone. Diplomats or, you know, representatives are going back and forth. It's expected that the special envoy for the White House to Russia will be in Moscow on Friday.
So, you know, he's got this conversation going. And very important, you know, the priority for Vladimir Putin appears to be reconstituting, rebuilding that relationship with the United States. And right now, he's in, you know, full train doing that.
So, why would he want to stop negotiations? I think you just keep negotiations over Ukraine going, hope that the Trump administration does what you want it to do. And then also, you know, wait, hope that the allies will fall apart, that Europe will have problems, et cetera, et cetera.
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VAUSE: Well, here's why Donald Trump might seem willing to hand over Crimea to Russia.
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TRUMP: When you say Crimea, that was handed over during a president named Barack Hussein Obama. That was -- had nothing to do with me. Crimea.
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VAUSE: Well, it kind of does. And that's mostly because of the Stimson Doctrine. That's after Japan's invasion of China back in 1931. The U.S. secretary of state at the time, Henry L. Stimson, declared that the U.S. government would not recognize any territorial or administrative changes the Japanese might impose upon China.
In other words, Japanese aggression would not be rewarded, and that's been U.S. foreign policy ever since.
So, what are the consequences here, not just for Ukraine, but for the world, if the Trump White House forces Ukraine to recognize Russian control of Crimea?
DOUGHERTY: Oh, I think, you know, legally and principally, it is a very big deal, because it as you mentioned, it reverses American policy, including the policy of President Trump, No. 1 term, himself.
And then it would give the green light, or at least it would put the United States in the position of saying it is OK to invade another country. And it would recognize that land that was taken illegally.
Now, there are ways that countries have done things like this. For example, in the 1940s when the Soviet Union took over the Baltic states, the United States never recognized that officially, but it did deal with the Soviet Union. But the recognition is very, very important.
And what Trump apparently is saying is that the United States would actually recognize that as Russian territory. And that is just major change.
And other countries could take it. China could take it as kind of a green light that the United States won't push back if China took over Taiwan militarily.
VAUSE: Yes, there are so many consequences to this if it goes down that road, and we'll wait and see what happens.
Jill, thanks for being with us. As always, great to see you.
DOUGHERTY: Sure. Thank you.
VAUSE: Officials in Beijing have accused the U.S. president of a little fake news, in particular, his repeated claims that talks between both countries are underway to try and end the weeks-long trade war.
The foreign ministry says there are no talks, no consultations with the U.S., and no agreement in sight.
President Trump has talked of his optimism of making a deal that will lower tariffs on Chinese imports from the current rate of 145 percent. On Thursday, reporters asked him about talks with Beijing at the White House. Here's what he said.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you clarify with whom the U.S. is speaking with China? They're saying it's fake news that trade talks are happening.
TRUMP: Well, they had a meeting this morning. So --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who's "they"?
TRUMP: I can't tell you. It doesn't matter who "they" is. We may reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning.
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VAUSE: "They."
Meantime, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, seated next to President Trump in the cabinet room, says a trade deal with South Korea could come as soon as next week.
Or not.
Ties between Pakistan and India are cratering after the deadly attack in disputed Kashmir, which left 26 tourists dead. On Thursday, Pakistan suspended trade with India, closed its airspace, canceled visas for Indian nationals, and expelled Indian diplomats.
The -- the actions are retaliation for similar measures from India the day before.
New Delhi also suspended a crucial water-sharing treaty for the first time and shut a key border crossing.
India says the measures are in response to Pakistan's alleged support for, quote, "cross-border terrorism." India's prime minister Thursday vowed to pursue the attackers to the ends of the earth.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MODI: Today, from the soil of Bihar, I say to the whole world India will identify, track, and punish every terrorist and their backers.
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VAUSE: On Thursday, Kashmir police named three suspects allegedly involved in the terror attack but did not say how the men were identified. Two of the three are Pakistani nationals.
Once again, Pakistan denies any involvement in that attack.
As we go to break, there are live images now from mourners at Vatican City. Thousands are there as the Vatican keeps the doors of St. Peter's Basilica open for longer, and later so thousands of faithful can pay their last respects to Pope Francis.
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VAUSE: Nineteen minutes past 6 on a Friday morning in Rome, and the doors of St. Peter's Basilica have opened an hour early because of the huge number of mourners wanting to pay their last respects to Pope Francis. You can see they're filing in now.
The Vatican says more than 90,000 people have passed by the pontiff and his coffin as he continues lying in state for another few days before his funeral on Saturday.
His body has been lying in state since Wednesday. The Vatican says 50 heads of state and ten reigning monarchs will attend his funeral. That includes U.S. President Donald Trump, his first foreign trip of his second term; British Prime Minister Keir Starmer; and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Security, as you imagine, will be tight. Authorities in Rome saying more than 2,000 police officers will be deployed, including sharpshooters and specialist forces.
The pope's choice for his final resting place reflects his deep reverence for the Virgin Mary, whom he would turn to in time -- time again for solace and guidance.
As Isa Soares reports, while the pope was seen as a reformer who elevated the role of women in the church, significant barriers still remain.
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ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the church's seat of power, where the patriarchy reigns, women icons loom large.
But none was more important to Pope Francis than this one. The Virgin Mary in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, which he visited more than a hundred times. And as in life, his death will be at her feet. This, his final resting
place.
Unlike those before him, the pope fought to elevate women, seeking their worth within the Vatican.
"When women are in charge, things work," he said, just days before he died.
During his 12-year papacy, Francis appointed around 20 women to positions of authority in the Vatican. That, while perhaps slow progress, is simply unprecedented in a male-dominated church.
Most recently, Francis made history when he appointed Sister Simone Brambilla as the first female prefect in the church and the Roman Curia. Sister Nathalie Becquart was elected by Pope Francis in 2021 as the undersecretary to the Synod of Bishops, a body tasked with church reform, the first woman to hold the post and have voting rights.
SISTER NATHALIE BECQUART, UNDERSECRETARY, SYNOD OF BISHOPS: Well, I think it was a very symbolic gesture from Pope Francis, appointed me as a woman in this role. Before, it has always been a bishop. Not because women are better, but because when we are together as men and women, usually we work better; we take better decisions.
SOARES: But while Francis broke with tradition, formally allowing women to read from the gospel during mass, act as altar servers, and distribute communion, he made it clear repeatedly that ordaining women as priests was off-limits.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Women can be priests. Don't kick the can.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Women can be priests. Don't kick the can.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Women can be priests. Don't kick the can.
SOARES (voice-over): Kate McElwee leads the Women's Ordination conference, which calls for gender equality in the Catholic Church.
KATE MCELWEE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WOMEN'S ORDINATION CONFERENCE: Pope Francis's appointments of women to high positions within the Vatican is extremely significant. It really helps change the culture within the Vatican.
And so, I hope that it starts to ask more questions than it answers, like, why can't women then go into the conclave? Why are women excluded from this?
SOARES: How do you make sense of that?
MCELWEE; I would say that Pope Francis unlocked the doors, but didn't quite open the doors for women.
SOARES (voice-over): But they will keep on knocking. A major challenge, no doubt, for the next head of the Catholic Church.
Isa Soares, CNN, Rome.
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VAUSE: Programing note here. Please join CNN for our coverage of Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday. Begins 8 a.m. In Rome, 7 a.m. in London, and 2 a.m. on the U.S. East Coast.
Well, it's all about the price of eggs. And President Trump insists he's bringing down those sky-high prices. But is that an exaggeration? But what exactly is happening with prices?
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VAUSE: According to the U.S. president, the cost of eggs and other grocery items are going down. A campaign promise kept. Not only that, he says a gallon of gas is now below $2. Not at my gas station or grocery store, they're not.
CNN's Daniel Dale fact-checked those claims and has this report.
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DANIEL DALE, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: Gas. Eggs. Groceries. President Trump has been lying about the price of all of them.
Trump has been trying to play down widespread concerns that his tariffs will fuel inflation. And listen to what he said this week and last week about gas prices.
TRUMP: Energy just hit $1.98 in a couple of states. It's way down.
You have gasoline that hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states.
Gasoline yesterday at -- in three states hit $1.98 a gallon.
DALE: This $1.98 figure is fiction. On the days the president specified, he was talking about April 16th and 17th, zero states had an average gas price even close to $1.98. The lowest state average each day, according to AAA, was $2.70.
Now, it's true the president didn't say he was talking about average prices. So, you might think, well, maybe he meant there were a bunch of individual gas stations selling $1.98 gas. That isn't true either.
GasBuddy, a company that tracks tens of thousands of stations nationwide, told me it found zero stations anywhere in the country, selling at even close to $1.98 on either day. In fact, the lowest price it found at any station was $2.19.
Next, listen to two false claims Trump made this past week about the price of eggs.
TRUMP: We just had a big Easter egg hunt at the White House. Thousands and thousands of eggs. And the price was down 87 percent. [00:30:04]
As you know, the cost of eggs has come down, like, 93, 94 percent since we took office. And they're pretty much normally priced now.
DALE: The price of eggs isn't down even close to 93 percent or 94 percent, nor even 87 percent, since Trump returned to office in January.
Let's look at the prices consumers are actually paying. Now, we only have this data through March, but the March data was bad. It showed the national average price for a dozen eggs hit a record high, about $6.23, and that was up 26 percent from January.
It is very possible that these retail egg prices have come down in April. We'll see when those numbers come out next month. But anybody who has shopped for groceries this month can tell you they're certainly not down 93 percent from Trump's inauguration day.
Because if they were down that much, eggs were currently be selling for less than $0.38 a dozen. They clearly are not.
Now, the White House has been pointing to wholesale egg prices. Those prices are way down since Trump's inauguration, about 52 percent. That's big.
But again, those aren't the prices actually paid by consumers. And of course, 52 percent isn't 87 or 93 percent.
Now, finally, the president has said repeatedly over the past two weeks that grocery prices in general have come down. He said, way down in a social media post on Thursday.
That's wrong too. Grocery prices are up under Trump. In March, average grocery prices jumped about 0.5 percent compared to February. That was the biggest month-to-month increase since the fall of 2022.
And average March grocery prices were also up about 2.4 percent since the previous March. That's the biggest year-to-year jump since the summer of 2023.
Now, we don't yet have the April grocery data yet, but in early April, of course, Trump imposed near-global 10 percent tariffs that are certain to further raise the price of a bunch of grocery items.
Daniel Dale, CNN, Washington.
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VAUSE: Even before the 100-day mark of his second term, it seems Donald Trump is increasingly focused on a possible third term, even though that would violate the Constitution.
Apparel featuring the message "Trump 2028" is now available on Trump's official retail website. For the record, the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution clearly
states "No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice."
The key word there is elected. That's the get-out-of-jail-free card, apparently.
Anyway, the trial for the 2016 robbery targeting Kim Kardashian is set to begin in Paris. In a moment, a look at the jewel heist, which rocked the reality star and the grandpa gang accused of taking her jewels at gunpoint.
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VAUSE: The owner of a Dominican nightclub has admitted tiles often fell from the ceiling before the roof collapsed earlier this month, killing more than 230 people.
The nightclub's owner tells a CNN affiliate that plaster tiles had been falling from the ceiling for years, and that includes the day of the disaster. He says Dominican authorities had never conducted a structural review of the 30-year-old Jet Set nightclub, and he never checked on this with private engineers either.
In a 2020 interview, Kim Kardashian publicly reflected on the moment she feared for her life, robbed at gunpoint in a Paris apartment.
As the long-awaited trial begins, her words underscore the lasting impact of this ordeal. CNN's Saskya Vandoorne has details.
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KIM KARDASHIAN, REALITY TV STAR: Because I didn't know who he was, and I'm like, what is happening? Are we going to die? Just tell them I have children. Like, I have babies. I have a husband. I have a family. Like, I have to get home.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Kim Kardashian West was held at gunpoint.
SASKYA VANDOORNE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She'd built an empire on fame and luxury. But one night in Paris left scars that lasted years.
Now, nearly nine years later, Kim Kardashian will soon face the men accused of tying her up and robbing her at gunpoint.
Disguised as police, they allegedly made off with about $10 million in cash and jewels.
The men, most over 60, now nicknamed the Grandpa Gang. Three of them escaped on bicycles.
Kardashian spoke about the violence on "Keeping up with the Kardashians." KARDASHIAN: Then he duct tapes my face and then, like, my mouth to get
me to, like, not yell or anything. And then he, like, grabs my legs and I wasn't, you know, I had no clothes on under. So --
VANDOORNE: But not everyone felt sorry for Kardashian.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You cannot display your wealth and then be surprised that some people want to share it with you.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's just one expression that comes to my mind: Fame fatale.
VANDOORNE (voice-over): Journalist Patricia Tourancheau wrote of the robbery in her book.
PATRICIA TOURANCHEAU, JOURNALIST/AUTHOR: In France, it's still very badly perceived when people flaunt their wealth so much. And what was heavily criticized, for example, is Kim Kardashian's selfie.
So, they knew she had jewelry on her, but she's showing off, and her way of exhibiting her wealth in France is quite insufferable.
VANDOORNE (voice-over): That selfie, now entered into evidence. According to court documents, the thieves tracked Kardashian's social media and knew exactly when and where to strike.
In a strange twist, one of them, Yunis Abbas, has since turned the heist into a publicity tour. Now 70, he wrote a memoir titled, "I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian" and promoted it on French television.
GABRIEL DUMENIL, ABBAS LAWYER: Since his arrest and his imprisonment, he read such nonsense about the case. Such a violation of its privacy, that he felt that he had to speak his truth.
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VANDOORNE (voice-over): Abbas has downplayed the crime, and some in the French media have portrayed him more as a cheeky anti-hero than a criminal. He's pleaded guilty to armed robbery but denies kidnapping.
YUNIS ABBAS, ALLEGEDLY KIDNAPPED KIM KARDASHIAN (through translator): I'm very happy for her. I asked her to forgive me. If she can't, Too bad. I'll live with that.
VANDOORNE: After years of delays, partly because of big cases like the Paris attacks, the trial will open here on Monday. Ten suspects are facing charges of kidnaping, armed robbery, and more.
They're not in custody, though, because of detention limits, and many are in poor health. Most say that they will plead not guilty, but if convicted, some of them could face up to 30 years behind bars.
Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, Paris.
(END VIDEOTAPE) VAUSE: Thank you for watching. I'm John Vause, back at the top of the hour with more CNN NEWSROOM. Please stay with us. WORLD SPORT starts after a short break. See you right back here in 19 minutes.
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