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Kim Kardashian appeared on Tuesday morning, May 13th, in front of a French courtto get from the terrible to report armed robbery that they Had experienced in a hotel in Paris in 2016. “I was firmly convinced that I would die,” she said loudly BBC in their testimony.
Statement about the night of October 3, 2016
Kardashian became on October 3, 2016 robbed with the gun held up. The alleged perpetrators captured jewelry worth over $ 6 million. Now the French authorities have charged ten people, nine men and a woman in connection with the robbery.
Alleged perpetrators and the case of the “grandpa robber”
The public prosecutor assumes that the perpetrators belong to an experienced criminal gang. Many of the suspects are between 60 and 70 years old. Which is why the French press gave you the nickname “Les Papys Braqueurs” (the grandpa robber).
On the witness stand, Kardashian said that when she heard the steps of the robbers, who got up the stairs to the hotel room for the first time, she thought it was her sister Kourtney and a friend who returned from an evening trip. Finally the door was torn open to her room. Kardashian said two men came in. “Dressed like police officers”. She said they brought the hotel’s night porter with her handcuffs.
The process of the armed raid
When they came in, according to Kardashian, the robbers kept asking for a ring. Apparently in relation to a diamond worth around $ 4 million that her husband Kanye West then gave her. However, Kardashian said she was “so shocked” that she thought it could be a terrorist attack.
Threatening of violence and the moment of fear of death
“To be honest, there were many terrorist attacks in the world at that time. And my friends and I talked about it,” said Kardashian. “I didn’t understand what was going on. And I didn’t understand that it was about my jewelry. Although they expressly asked about my ring.”
Tied up, gagged and locked up in the bathroom
Finally, according to Kardashian, one of the robbers found the ring next to her bed. While another discovered a jewelry box while rummaging through their things. When Kardashian grabbed her cell phone to alert her bodyguard, she said someone took away her cell phone. She pulled from the bed. And they pulled along the hallway as they were looking for further jewelry. She said one of the men kept a gun in her back. She thought about fleeing before she realized that she should “just do what to say”.
According to Kardashian, the robbers finally threw them back onto the bed and tied their hands with cable ties. She remembered that she had told the night porter: “Please translate [den Räubern]that I have babies and have to go home. “
Liberation of cable ties and adhesive tape
According to Kardashian, she only wore one bathrobe all the time. And she remembered that she thought that this was ‘the moment when he will rape me’. However, the man captivated her feet, stuck her mouth and blocked her in the bathroom.
Return to the stylist and removal of the ankle cuffs
After a few minutes, according to Kardashian, the noises in the other room stopped and she started to free herself. She managed to remove the cable ties from her wrists and the adhesive tape from her mouth. Fann left the bathroom in search of her stylist Simone Harouche, who slept below and locked herself in the bathroom during the robbery. Harouche helped Kardashian to remove the bonds on their feet.
The psychological consequences for Kim Kardashian
Towards the end of her statement, Kardashian spoke about the long -term effects of the robbery. She said she developed a “phobia before”. So that nobody “sees me and knows that my house is empty”. She added: “I can’t even sleep at night if I know that there are not several security guards.”
Disputes to the confessed main perpetrator – despite trauma
Kardashian even turned to one of the accused, Aomar Ait Khedache, who stood the participation in the robbery and sent Kardashian a letter after his arrest in 2017. “I definitely appreciate the letter,” she said. “I appreciate him. I give you. But that doesn’t change the emotions, feelings and trauma. And how my life has changed.”