Eight years after one of the most traumatic episodes of his life, Kim Kardashian He faced face to face with that memory again. The night he was enchanted, tied by hands and feet, And locked in the bathroom of her room in Paris. The reason, this time, was his testimony in the trial against those responsible for the assault occurred during the fashion week in 2016.
This Tuesday, May 13, the businesswoman declared before the French justice about what she lived in that morning at the Hotel No Address. According to the BBCwhen asked if she thought she was going to die during the assault, Kardashian did not hesitate to her answer: “I was absolutely sure that I was going to die.”
He wore only one robe at the time of the attack. “It opened when one of the men pulled me towards him, exposing all my body,” he said. Then, according to his testimony collected by NBC Newsadded: “I was sure they were going to rape me.”
Instead, the thieves tied his legs. Although it was soon clear that they were looking for jewels, fear did not abandon her at any time. “I have babies and I need to return with my babies”he told the assailants again and again. He believes that one of them, at some point, ordered him: “Be quiet”.
They threw her on the bed with her hands and feet tied. “At that moment I was sure they were going to shoot me. So I prayed for my family, my mother, my sister and my best friend,” he said. The scene I imagined was devastating: “I thought they would shoot me in bed and (Kourtney) I would see that and have that memory forever.”
Before leaving, one of the men left her on the floor of the bathroom. He waited several minutes to make sure they had left, managed to let go of his hands and He was jumping to his stylist’s room to ask for help.
The impact of the assault
The attack marked a before and after in his life. Although he says he felt safe in Paris, today moves with four to six bodyguards, even when he is at home in California.
In total, ten people are being judged for their alleged involvement in the assault, a case that has captured worldwide attention not only for the victim’s profile, but also by the unusual band behind the crime: The French press has nicknamed the “grandparents” due to their advanced age and their extensive criminal records.
Among the stolen objects that night were two Diamond bracelets Cartier, a gold and diamond jacob necklace, slopes of Lorraine Schwartz, a gold rolex and a ring valued at four million dollars that Kanye West He had given him. The authorities estimated the total loot in almost nine millionof which the majority never recovered.
One of the defendants, Yunice Abbas71, not only publicly admitted his participation, but even co -written a book entitled I kidnap Kim Kardashian. However, during the trial he assured that he did not choose that name and that the title “distorts its actions.” “I’m sorry, not because they caught me, but because … there was a trauma”he declared on April 29, according to NBC News.
