The Celebrity United States Kim Kardashian He has begun to testify on Tuesday at the trial that takes place in Paris against the alleged perpetrators of the robbery and kidnapping he suffered in 2016 when several attackers handcuffed her to steal jewelry valued at 10 million dollars.
The suspects are accused of binding the billionaire with flanges and adhesive tape before fleeing with the jewels, including a four million dollars commitment that her then husband gave her, the rapper Kanye West (Now known as Ye). The robbery, considered one of the most shocking in France in the last two decades, occurred in the early hours of October 3, when five individuals broke into their room, immobilized and fled by bicycle.
“They were around three in the morning. I heard footsteps up the stairs when I was in bed. I kept calling my sister and one of my best friends, but nobody answered me. And some police officers entered in my room, or I assumed that they were police officers because they carried police uniforms,” said the television star. “I was convinced that they were going to shoot me, that everything had ended,” he said in tears.
As she has reported, at one time she feared to be raped when the thieves thieves her on the bed and one of them grabbed her leg. “But he ended up sticking to me and closed my legs,” he said.
A robbery with enormous media interest
This trial has raised a Huge media interest and has needed a strict security device in the historic Palace of Justice of the center of Paris. In addition to the 400 accredited journaliststhe judicial authority has established areas for the cameras that will record the entrance and exit of Kim Kardashian to the historic Voltaire Sala, dedicated to the great judgments. In judicial processes in France, there are no records or images or sound and that is why only a handful of reporters will be able to see the star inside the stay. The rest will have to follow the trial in a distance listening room.
On the bench of the defendants, nine men and a woman feel, all in freedom under judicial control, as alleged members of the group that plotted and executed the assault in the early hours of October 3, 2016 during the Paris Fashion Week. They have nicknamed them as “The Band of the Grandparents” Because a good part of them are over 70 years old and an extensive criminal record with long years in prison behind them.
One of the suspects is Yunice Abbas, 71. He declared to the French press that those who participated in the robbery They did not know Kardashian’s identity. “It was not her, it was her diamond we were looking for,” Abbas told C8 TV a few years ago. Abbas admitted his participation in theft and, in fact, wrote a book about it.
The version agrees with that of Kardashian. “They didn’t stop saying The ring, the ring“The television star said in an interview in 2020.” I thought I was going to die, I was preparing for the moment they would shoot me and kill me, “said the star.” Those 10 minutes really changed my life completely. “
Aomar Ait Khedache, considered leader of the operation, acknowledged having been one of the members of the command that rose armed to the victim’s room to threaten her and steal her jewels. Nicknamed as “Omar el Viejo” faces a possible life imprisonment. His lawyer, Frank Berton, declared last month that he hoped that the fact that Kardashian is a world star will not affect the trial.
Among the defendants are one of Khedache’s children and another father-son couple: the Boyer. The little one, Marc-Alexandre, is, according to the researchers, the second thief who at the tip of gun gagged and immobilized Kardashian by sticking it with flanges before taking the loot.
Kardashian has accepted Khedache excuses at the audience on Tuesday for having participated in the robbery, but he has pointed out that he does not erase the trauma he suffered, which his life and that of his family have disrupted him.
The trial will last until May 23, when the sentence will be known.
“Kim kept screaming, he could hear terror in his voice”
During the morning of Tuesday, the Criminal Court has heard the testimony of its stylist Simone Bretter, who hid in the bathroom and gave the alarm. In 2016, the woman arrived in Paris with Kardashian “to dress her” during fashion week. On October 2 to 3, he lay around midnight on the ground floor of the duplex in which the Celebrity. From his bedroom, he listened to “Kim laughing” with friends in the living room, and fell asleep with that background noise.
“Not only was I employed at Kim Kardashian, we are friends since childhood,” Bretter explained. When a noise awakens around 3 in the morning, he immediately knew that there was a problem. “It was a sound that had never heard Kim. It was terrifying,” he said, while recalling: “I heard:” I have babies and I need to live. Let me take everything, let me live!“
Terrified by the life of her friend and her own, Simone Bretter fled to her bathroom, closed the door, hid in the shower and sent a text message to Kim’s older sister, Kourtney Kardashianand your bodyguard. Above, he heard “Men shouting,” “Kim kept screaming, he could hear terror in his voice.” Then “steps down the stairs.” But the criminals, who saw that the bodyguard tried to contact Kim Kardashian, fled.
