A woman tied, gagged and locked in the bathroom, at gunpoint, in a luxurious apartment in the heart of Paris. Although it could sound to a scene taken from a horror movie, that was the cruel reality that lived Kim Kardashian On October 3, 2016. In the middle of the fashion week, the famous businesswoman was resting in her exclusive apartment on Tronchet Street, when a band of five hooded robbers broke into her room. What began as a quiet night became a terrifying nightmare, in which the star was stripped of millions of dollars in jewels, while feared for her life, trapped in her own bathroom, without knowing if she was going to survive to tell her story.
While his bodyguard was out with his sister Kourtney, Kim, completely alone and vulnerable, he heard the steps of the thieves approaching the stairs. He shouted with all his might, but nobody responded. It was at that time when, as he said months later in Keeping Up With The Kardashians, He understood that something was terribly bad. Attached and with the fear of skin flower, I could only think: “They are going to shoot me.” But, what the attackers really wanted was not their life, but their fortune, especially the jewels that the media star had shown without shame in their social networks. The blow, valued at about 10 million dollars, included the luxurious diamond ring that her then husband Kanye West He had given him, appraised at 4 million dollars. And they did not settle for that: bracelets, slopes and a clock were also taken, leaving it empty not only of material goods, but of a peace that I would never recover.
One of those detained for the theft of Kim Kardashian
The theft of Kim was terrifying not only for his global visibility, but for the coldness of the thieves, who used a modus operandi of old school. At 3:00 am, dresses as police, a group of men in 60 years broke into the Parisian Poultalès hotel. After threatening the janitor, he was forced to guide them to the Kim suite. Once inside, they dragged her into the hall, they pushed her against the bed and tied her with adhesive tape, pointing her with a gun at the head. Desperate, he tried to call 911, but did not work out of the US, leaving her helpless. The thieves escaped rapidly, on bicycles already foot, with the loot, leaving the creator of traumatized content. After what happened, he confessed to feel like a “robot, without emotions.”
The investigation led to the capture of 17 people in 2017, but the trial, which should begin in 2021, has been delayed several times by the pandemic, the saturation of courts and the fear that the scandal would affect tourism before the Olympic Games of Paris 2024.
Kim Kardashian
9 years later, ten of those involved in the robbery finally face trial. Most of them are men between 70 and 80 years old, born in the 1950s, so some may not appear: one of the defendants, with advanced dementia, will be acquitted, and another already died. Despite the evidence, almost everyone denys their involvement in crime. Among the detainees are Yunice Abbas, 67, who has already confessed, and Aomar ait khedache, Nicknamed “The old Omar”, who allegedly organized everything. These “grandparents thieves” do not seem to have regrets, but the judgment, after years of waiting, promises more revelations.
The event left a lot of unresolved unknowns, especially in terms of stolen jewels. Yunice, a lifelong thief with a rather heavy criminal past, was the one who took the most out of the assault, taking 75,000 euros (about $ 85,000). However, Kim’s commitment ring was never sold, since they feared it was easy to track. Most jewels were cast or destroyed, leaving only traces of what could have been the blow of the century. In a macabre turn, Abbas, who wrote a book entitled “I stole Kim Kardashian by armed,” confessed that this assault was going to be his last great work before “retiring” of the crime. After learning about the emotional damage that caused the victim, he apologized, but made it clear that he did not regret being caught, only the suffering he caused in the Socialité.
