4:20 pm, November 4, 2022, modified to 4:43 pm, November 4, 2022
He thought he had solved his case well. But the investigators of the Parisian judicial police were not fooled. According to our information, Yazid Ichemrahen, 31, crowned world champion of frozen desserts in 2014, was arrested on Thursday November 3 at his home by investigators of the 1st Criminal Police District (DPJ) as part of a preliminary investigation. for acts of “fraud”. Placed in police custody, the pastry chef was questioned about the burglary committed in his apartment in the 16th arrondissement, on the night between 8 and 9 February.
Kidnapped at the start of this burglary after a complaint by Yazid Ichemrahen, the police officers of the 1st DPJ quickly focused their suspicions on the occupant of the premises. Also according to our information, the suspect admitted that he staged this break-in at his home to be reimbursed by his insurance. Yazid Ichemrahen would have mentioned ” financial difficulties “ to explain its action.
40,000 euros reimbursed by your insurance
The pastry chef, who participated in the launch of about forty pastries abroad, was released after his audition. Now it does “Summoned, at the beginning of 2023, for fraudulent acts” and will be judged “according to the appearance procedure after admission of negligence (CRPC)”the guilty plea, the Paris prosecutor’s office told the JDD.
Investigators tracked him down after careful cross-checking. The videoprotection of the building in which the pastry chef lives made it possible to reconstruct the sequence of events. On the evening of February 8, around 11:30 pm, Yazid Ichemrahen left his house. The next day, early in the afternoon, he returns home before noticing traces of weight on his door. Upon entering his quarters, he discovers that the premises have been searched and that many jewels and luxury clothes from Hermès, Dior and Louis Vuitton have disappeared. The pastry chef also notes that his living room window has been cracked and that the author or those responsible have taken duplicate keys to his apartment and those to his gleaming Audi RS6 sedan. Yazid Ichemrahen therefore estimates the damage done to him at almost 40,000 euros. Before being reimbursed by your insurance.
The Audio RS6 track
Very quickly, the police officers of the 1st DPJ determined that the only car to leave the scene during the night of the events was a black Audi RS6. While dissecting the video surveillance images of the pastry chef’s building, they also observed an unknown man, with his hood pulled up over his head, entering the atrium of the building, theater of events, shortly after 4 in the morning, avoiding showing himself in front of the surveillance cameras. , of which he seems to know the location. The same man is then seen walking out of the building with two large garbage bags, about thirty minutes after his arrival. Investigators also found that the Audi RS6, seen exiting the Yazid Ichemrahen building area shortly after the accident, had been fined a few months earlier for failing to comply with a traffic light and that its driver was none other than the pastry chef. chef.
The police end up establishing their suspicions after following the route taken by this vehicle, a few minutes after the theft: the powerful sedan is filmed as it rushes into an underground car park near the Champs-Élysées. Before leaving the next morning, around 8:00 am, when his driver used a credit card in Yazid Ichemrahen’s name to pay for the parking. A means of payment that has not been declared lost or stolen by the pastry chef, who grew up in a foster family and whose life is the subject of a film that will be released in 2023.
When asked on Friday, November 4, Yazid Ichemrahen indicated that he had not done so “You have time to answer us (us)”.
