The famous pastry chef of Moroccan origin Yazid Ichemrahen withdrew his appeal, which definitively condemned him on Friday for having simulated his own burglary. At first instance, he received a six-month suspended prison sentence, a fine of 6,000 euros and two years of ineligibility. A native of Epernay in Marne, the 2014 world champion in frozen desserts organized the events to recover “several tens of thousands of euros from insurance,” reports Le Parisien.
It all starts in February 2022, in Paris. The 33-year-old man filed a burglary complaint, saying he had “luxury clothes, jewelry, a watch” stolen, as well as the keys to his car, an Audi RS6. Surveillance videos show “a man who is difficult to recognize,” as well as the vehicle leaving the building. After later locating it in a parking lot, it turned out that the parking had been paid for by a bank card in the name of the complainant, who did not make a loss declaration.
Yazid Ichemrahen then confessed, and spoke of “financial difficulties”. But now he maintains his innocence. “It’s an injustice that kept me from sleeping for months. I lost more than 700,000 euros in contracts when the first articles came out, not counting the 20,000 or 25,000 euros in lawyer fees afterwards. I went from my job, which consists of making people happy, to thousands of racist comments on social networks,” he told the newspaper Le Parisien.
On his withdrawal, he told the media that he preferred to “focus on [son] work”. “I appealed because my image and my honor were tarnished, especially in relation to my uncle and my aunt who raised me. I’m tired of this story. I’m not a footballer or an actor, I make cakes,” he added. “It would cost me a lot of money again in lawyer fees, to relive two years of ordeal in procedure,” concluded the pastry chef.
