A band of “grandparents thieves” well informed about the agenda of Kim Kardashian robbed ten million dollars in jewels to the star of American Telerreality in his room of a hotel in Paris in 2016. This is the chronicle of the so -called “robbery of the century.”
The night of October 2, Kim Kardashian attended the Givenchy parade for Paris Fashion Week, and returned to his hotel with friends towards midnight. His bodyguard was absent, since he accompanied his sister Kourtney and her assistant to a disco.
Shortly after, in the early morning, Kim Kardashian’s friends leave and she goes up to her room, at the top floor of this apartment of the luxurious exclusive and discreet hotel, known as “No Address” (“Without direction”), hidden behind a large red door, two steps from the Madeleine church.
Kardashian listened to a noise on the stairs and thought she is her sister and her assistant. He greeted them from afar, without an answer.
At that moment, he thought that something was not going well and tried to call his bodyguards, but it was too late: two hooded men broke into his room.
The robbers, experienced thieves of about sixty, according to the accusation, arrived a few minutes before walking and by bicycle.
The luxurious residence where Kardashian was staying was known among the celebrities for his absolute discretion: he does not have a recognizable facade or website.
But, the main door was often open and its security cameras off for greater intimacy, several combined elements to create an amazing security failure.
The watchman that night did not suspect when he saw a group of men appear at the door dressed in uniform and police cap.
“Are they here again for coca?” He asked, as one of the assailants later said.
The thieves pointed to the receptionist with a gun and forced him to kneel. “The rapper’s wife?” They asked, in reference to Kanye West, then Kardashian husband.
Pass ring, everything happens
Mooring and under threats, the receptionist took two of the men to the Apartment of the Famous, which they entered at a gun. Kardashian was in Bata, with his phone.
The assailants put a gun in the temple and one of them, according to Kardashian’s story, he addressed her in English with “a strong French accent” and says “ring, ring!” (“Ring, ring!”).
The influential one pointed to the nightstand where her alliance was, a ring with a huge diamond valued at four million dollars, which Kardashian used to exhibit on social networks.
The star of social networks, which was then 35 years old, was terrified, “hysterical,” he said. He thought it was “terrorists” who wanted to kidnap and was afraid to die, to be raped, after her robe was opened when one of the men knocked her up in bed to tie her feet and hands.
Moving and with the mouth covered with adhesive tape, he saw how the thieves recorded the room, until he found a chest of Louis Vuitton full of necklaces, bracelets and slopes and goldx rolyal watches and $ 1,000 in his bag.
In total, an estimated booty of ten million dollars, the largest robbery of an individual in France of the last twenty years.
The thieves locked her in the bathroom. Then they fled when they saw a call from their bodyguards on the star’s phone, alerted by Kardashian’s stylist who slept on the ground floor and heard noise.
Kardashian managed to unleash and the bodyguards, who arrived rapidly, called the police about 03h15.
“I thought I was going to die, I was preparing for when they were shooting and killing me,” the star said later. “These ten minutes really changed my whole life,” he added.
The robbers left as they came, walking or by bicycle, with reflective vests. Mainly identified by DNA, they were arrested three months later in a large police operation.
Kardashian, very traumatized, left Paris at dawn.
