In 2023 he had the right to a film about his life called “Under the stars”and in which the YouTuber Just Riadh played his role. The pitch? “Since a young age, Yazid has had only one passion, baking. Raised between a foster family and a home, the young man has forged an indomitable character. From Epernay to Paris via Monaco he goes try to make your dream come true: work with the greatest pastry chefs and become the best”. The story is that of Yazid Ichemrahen, considered the little prince of pastry and crowned 2014 world champion in frozen desserts. Currently working at the Royal Monceau-Raffles, a palace in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, the pastry chef ended the year 2024 with a conviction by the French courts. In September 2024, he was sentenced to six months in prison, a fine of 6,000 euros and two years of ineligibility for having organized a false burglary at his home, with the aim of “to recover several tens of thousands of euros from insurance”as our colleagues from Parisian.
To understand this conviction, we have to go back to February 2022, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, when Yazid Ichemrahen filed a complaint and told the police that he had just returned home and discovered that he had been burglarized. “He lists the damage: luxury clothes, jewelry, a watch. He also claims that the keys to his Audi RS6 were stolen.details The Parisian. The problem? Investigators analyze the video surveillance cameras in his building that he left the day before the famous burglary and saw just after his departure that a man, “hood over his head to hide his face, enters the lobby of the building then leaves about half an hour later with two filled trash bags”. His Audi RS6 has also left its residential area and is located in a parking lot near the Champs-Élysées, the exit of which will be paid for with a bank card… of Yazid Ichemrahen. “A CB which had not been declared stolen”, our colleagues specify. He then ends up admitting the facts in police custody and explains that he has “financial difficulties”. He first appealed his conviction before finally withdrawing his appeal and therefore being definitely found guilty.
Yazid Ichemrahen continues to proclaim his innocence
Contacted at the time of his conviction by our colleagues from Parisianhe then proclaimed his innocence. “It’s an injustice that kept me from sleeping for months. I lost more than 700,000 euros worth of contracts when the first articles came out (on this burglary), not counting the 20,000 or 25,000 euros of lawyer fees then I went from my job which consists of pleasing, to. thousands of racist comments on social networks“he regretted. Asked about his withdrawal, he explained: “I prefer to concentrate on my work. It would cost me a lot of money again in lawyer fees, to relive two years of ordeal in proceedings…”. And to conclude with bitterness: “I appealed because my image and my honor were tarnished, especially in relation to my uncle and my aunt who raised me. I am tired of this story. I am not a footballer or an actor , I make cakes!”.
