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It dies suspicious of the theft of Kim Kardashian in Paris, will it affect the trial?

The trial against the suspects of the assault a Kim Kardashian In Paris it has begun. However, an unusual situation has been announced just a few hours that the courts in France have called for trial for the events that occurred in 2016. One of the defendants in the case has died, according to the reports of The New York Times. Additionally, another suspect was considered in court as too sick to be judged, according to the aforementioned medium. Although the authorities arrested 17 people initially, the number of defendants in the trial is 10.

Escorted by police, one of the men accused of theft of Kim Kardashian, is photographed upon his arrival at the Palace of Justice, in Paris for the trial, which started on April 28, 2025.© Pierre Suu/Getty Images
Escorted by police, one of the men accused of theft of Kim Kardashian, is photographed upon his arrival at the Palace of Justice, in Paris for the trial, which started on April 28, 2025.

Marceau Baum-Gertner He died in Paris on March 6, just when the case was about to go to trial, according to the Daily Mail. He was 72 years old and so far, the cause of his death has not been revealed, but Fuentes claim that “it was unexpected.” The media also reports that he had recently received death threats.

Baum-Gertner, who was released on bail, was willing to clean his name in the trial. She was accused of helping mafia groups to steal Kardashian jewelry worth 10 million dollars while she was retained at gunpoint, fearing for her life. Baum-Gertner and “The Old Omar” Aït Khedache, 68, who confessed to being the leader after the discovery of his DNA in the place of the events, were captured by surveillance cameras in highway gas stations on the outskirts of Paris.

Kim Kardashian© Doug Peters – Pa images, Getty Images
The trial will continue its course and Kim can offer its version of the facts.

Meanwhile, the other suspicious – part of what the French media have nickname NBC News.

Kim Kardashian could travel to Paris to testify at the trial © Getty Images
Kim Kardashian could travel to Paris to testify at the trial

The trial is scheduled to continue until May 23with Kim, 44, scheduled to testify on May 13. His lawyer, Michael Rhodes, told NBC News that its client has “a tremendous appreciation and admiration for the French judicial system,”, adding that “it has been treated with great respect by the French authorities.”

While Rhodes indicated that the businesswoman was “reserving her testimony for the court and the jury”, she has spoken rarely about this traumatic incident. Previously, in an episode of Keeping Up With The KardashiansIn 2017, the Socialité recalled what crossed his head as soon as the assailants were armed. “They are going to shoot my back,” Kim described his sisters Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian. “There is no way out. It bothers me so much to think about it,” he added.

Kim Kardashian© Getty Images
Kim Kardashian has sometimes related the fear he felt, during the robbery

In the years after theft, Kim has also talked about the long -term impact of surviving this experience. “(My therapist) said: ‘You think calm is your superpower. I think you are so desensitized to traum The Kardashians In 2024. “Then she said: ‘Once something happened to you in life, you kept calm, and that worked for you. So you will always choose calm.'”

But in a confessional interview, Kim – who stressed that his serene behavior “saved his life” – was questioned if he had adopted that mantra too much to the letter. “I think I have let it become so quiet, that people could take advantage of my tranquility,” he reflected, “or I am simply becoming a total robot without emotion.”

This was the assault on Kim Kardashian in Paris

It was on October 6, 2016, when armed thieves broke into Kim Kardashian’s room at the Non Address Hotel in Paris, within the framework of Fashion Week.

A general view of the luxury hotel on Rue Tronchet, where Kim Kardashian stayed at the time of the assault, in October 2016.© Getty Images
A general view of the luxury hotel on Rue Tronchet, where Kim Kardashian stayed at the time of the assault, in October 2016.

The businesswoman was tied and gagged before the bathtub was carried, where she remained during the assault. Meanwhile, five masked men stole several jewels valued in millions of dollars.

In this 2015 photograph, Kim Kardashian appears wearing his expensive $ 4 million ring, which was stolen in Paris.© GC Images
In this 2015 photograph, Kim Kardashian appears wearing his expensive $ 4 million ring, which was stolen in Paris.

Among the stolen pieces were two Cartier diamond bracelets, a gold chain and Jacob diamonds, some earrings Lorraine Schwartz, a gold rolex, in addition to a ring of diamonds with a heat of $ 4 million, which was presented by his then husband, rapper Kanye West.

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