Kim Kardashian I was in robe, with nothing underneath, resting in his room of the Hotel de Pourtales In the center of Pariswhen two men dressed as police stormed and threatened him with his guns.
“I thought I was going to die and that they were going to sexually abuse me,” the American said in a French court.
About 3:00 in the morning of that October 3, 2016, AOMAR AIT KEDACHE AND Yunice Abbas They entered the hotel lobby, located in the neighborhood of La Madeleine de Paris.
There was the receptionist Abderrahmane Ouatikian Algerian doctoral student who could only give in to the requests of men. He was pointed at his head and demanded that he take them to the room of Kim Kardashian.
The American star was in root, resting on her bed, tired of those days stirred by the Fashion Week In Paris. In a moment, he heard strong footsteps and shouts in the hall, and was scared.
Kim Kardashian during his statement in the Parisian court.
Kardashian called her sister Kourtney and your stylist Stephaniebut none replied. Neither does his security guard, Pascal Duvier, who had accompanied his sister to a club. I was alone.
In the middle of panic, the woman called 911, the emergency number in USA. She didn’t know that in France The number he should call is 112.
While he was with the phone, the men broke into their room. “They didn’t stop saying:”The ring, the ring!“I was so surprised that I didn’t understand anything,” Kardashian said in an interview with the American journalist David Letterman.
The men spoke to Kardashian in French and the Ouatiki receptionist had to act as an interpreter. One of the men found the ring on the nightstand. It was that Kardashian’s ex -husband, rapper Kayne Westhe had given him and that he was valued almost 4 million euros.
Then, one of the men grabbed her and pointed at her head. They looked for more jewels and then threw from her and as she was alone with a gown, without underwear, He thought he was going to sexually assault heraccording to the statements made in the Parisian court on May 13, and collected by the BBC.
The man threw her on the bed. He tied his legs and hands with flanges and adhesive tape, and then leave her locked in the bathroom and flee with the loot. “I was sure they were going to shoot me“, said.
The thieves fled that morning by bicycle already foot on the street. Meanwhile, Kardashian freed himself from his bonds and sought help. The woman, traumatized, declared the French Police that morning And then he returned to the United States.
‘Grandparents thieves’
Eight men were declared guilty for armed hand theft to Kim Kardashian. French media called the defendants as The Band of Grandparents thieves For the ages that all of them have, between 60 and 70 years, and that will even allow them to evade prison or reduce their convictions.
One of these men, Yunice Abbaspublished some memories in 2021 calls J’ai Séquestré Kim Kardashian (I kidnap Kim Kardashian) where he confesses all crime.
The police captured him and another 11 involved in the robbery thanks to the surveillance cameras that were for all Paris and that allowed the authorities to see them flee with the jewels. Although Kardashian only saw two men break into his room, There were others who acted as beams and accomplices.
Yunice Abbas wrote a book confessing the entire crime and Kim Kardashian got angry at that.
Abbas fled with part of the jewels by bicycle. On the street, the man stumbled and dropped a bag with a jewelry necklace, which It was collected by a passerby in the morning.
French police found thieves for DNA traces that left on the scene and the flanges with which they tied Kardashian. These coincided with the identity of Abbas and that of Aomar Ait Khedache, also known as Omar el Viejo.
In January 2017, three months after theft, The whole band fell When they had stayed to drink coffee in a place in Paris.
During police investigations, both Khedache and Abbas declared that all the information they needed to commit the robbery It was posted on-line by Kim Kardashian.
However, the police also suspected that Gary Madarbrother of a Kardashian Exchofer, was complicit in the robbery giving information about the television star agenda. Madar was also arrested in January 2017.
Police also tracked the band’s phones revealing that Khedache traveled to Antwerp, Belgiumwhere 50 % of polished diamonds and 80 % of raw diamonds in the world are sold, according to the diamond investment office.
There they knew that many of the jewels ended molten and others were sold. The only thing that was not found is The commitment ring that Kayne West gave to Kim Kardashianand that it was the most valuable of the whole loot.
In principle, 10 people were accused of armed robbery charges in an organized band, kidnapping and acquisition and unauthorized possession of weapons. Initially, There were 12 defendants in the casebut one person died and another could not be judged by health problems, according to the Court of Appeal of Paris.
The French prosecution requested 10 years in prison for Abbas and three othersand asked the Court not to notice its “reassuring wrinkles” because at the time of the events they were “Experienced thieves of organized crime” With broad criminal record.
The court gave men’s opportunity. Kedache, who is 69 years old today and He is disabled, deaf and mute, He apologized in a message read by his lawyer. “I can’t find the words. I am very sorry,” said the man sentenced to five years in prison, although he will no longer enter the prison.
He also took the opportunity to apologize to his son Harminy for asking him to gather him and two others of the thieves that morning of the robbery.
Harminy Aït Khedache was accused of having been the driver of the command that carried out the theft and was sentenced to five years in jail, four of them exempt from compliance.
The court sentenced four years in prison to comply with Christiane Glotinex -partner of Khedache, accused of complicity and for whom the prosecution requested six years in prison, three years, also without compliance, to François Deport and Marc Boyer.
Didier Dubreucqanother of the defendants was not in the trial. This 69 -year -old man had to receive cancer chemotherapy and had to be hospitalized. His lawyer read a message written by him where he denies his participation in the robbery. “Never, I never participated in jewelry theft.”
For its part, Yunice Abbaswho suffers from Parkinson and undergoing cardiac surgery recently, said: “Once again, I only have regrets to offer them. I’m sorry, I accept what I did.” He and Dubreucq were sentenced to seven years in prison, five of them in suspense.
In cases of Gary Madar and Florus heroui, Also accused by the Prosecutor’s Office, they were acquitted by the judge.
Kim Kardashian arrived at the Paris court accompanied by his mother Kris Jenner.
The judge David de Pas He told the defendants that their sentences were mild: “I understand that you understand that you have caused harm” and added that “The health status of the main protagonists ethically imprisoned anyone“
Kardashian’s statement
Kardashian spoke for more than three hours in the Parisian court. Dressed in a custom black suit and diamond jewelry, Kardashian was accompanied by her mother, Kris Jennerseveral friends and a group of bodyguards.
He hesitated during his first hour of testimony. Played with their long nails and pausas when the emotion seized her and tried to contain tears. His testimony was sometimes interrupted by the apologies of two of the defendants, who were sitting a few meters from it.
Aomar ait khedache, Now 71, he said he was regretful. Kardashian turned to him and told him to forgave him while crying. Years ago, Kedache himself had confessed the crime and sent a letter of apologies to Kardashian.
“I apreciate it, I forgive you, but that does not change the emotion, The feelings, the trauma and the way in which my life has changed, “the television star in court told him.
Kardashian said several times that He was afraid to be shot and raped her. “At one point I thought: ‘Should I run away?’ But it wasn’t an option, so I stayed,” he said.
The woman even remembered that she told the receptionist to translate a few words for the thieves: “Please tell them that I have babies, I have to go home.”
After that one of them threw from her towards him, which opened the robe. In his interview with the journalist David Letterman, Kardashian reported How did it feel at that time. “I only told myself: ‘Ok, this will happen. Just prepare.'”
In court he told that experience again and said he was afraid to be raped, but then when they tied her hands and feet, thought they were going to kill her.
He also thought of his family and the traumatic that would be for his sister Kortney Have to see your body in the hotel room. “She would see that and have that memory forever.”
After the thieves fled, Kardashian released from the flanges and went down the stairs to the first floor of the suite, where her friend, Simone Harouchehelped him free himself.
Aomar Ait Khedache is considered the “intellectual author” of theft.
The two ran to a balcony and hid in shrubs because they feared men to return. They asked for help and when the Parisian police arrived, Kardashian couldn’t trust them because the thieves who almost kill her were dressed as police.
The judge David De Pas asked Kardashian Why her security was not with her during theft. She explained that she was accompanying her sister Kourtney in a club, while she was resting.
In addition, he declared that until the day of theft, neither she nor her family believed to need that level of security because They always felt safe walking through the streets of Paris. However, “everything changed” after theft and began to feel “phobia to leave” because I thought people “would see me leave and I would know that my house was empty.”
“I can’t even sleep at night if I know there are no several security guards,” he explained.
Kardashian also expressed his anger with Yunice Abbas for the publication of his memoirs where he tells how the crime was. “Not only did this, but now he is making money with that: my jewels, my memories, The clock that my father gave mewho already died, when I graduated from the institute. I can’t recover it, “Kardashian said.
At the end of his statement, he thanked the court for listening to it. “I wanted to participate today because I am the victim of this case and It is the first time I can really listen to everyone and follow the story. “
And he concluded: “It was scary and changed my life. I don’t wish that kind of terror to anyone. Think they could kill you or rape you. I wouldn’t want it to my worst enemy. “
