(FILES) Manchester City’s Italian goalkeeper #25 Gianluigi Donnarumma warms up ahead of the UEFA Champions League, round of 16 second leg football match between Manchester City and Real Madrid at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on March 17, 2026. With insults flying from the dock and relatives being ejected from the courtroom, the trial of three men accused of the traumatic burglary in July 2023 at the home of Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma took place in a chaotic atmosphere on September 10, 2026 at the Paris court. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)
Two men involved in a violent burglary of Manchester City’s Italy international goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and his pregnant girlfriend at their home in Paris were on Friday given prison sentences.
Donnarumma was savagely beaten in the robbery while his then fiancee, now wife, Alessia Elefante, was choked with a cable and later suffered a miscarriage blamed on the trauma of the incident.
Ilyas Kherbouch, 21, the mastermind of the burglary, was sentenced to nine years in prison and fined 80,000 euros ($92,000) by the Paris Criminal Court.
Co-defendant Moktar D., received a five-year prison sentence, with two years suspended subject to a probationary period.
