Around 3 am on October 3, 2016, two hooded men, aged 60, broke into the hotel room where the famous American influencer was hosted
The trial for theft of in its hotel room in 2016 during the fashion week, where elderly bicycles stole $ 10 million (about $ 32.5 million, at the time) in jewelry, starts on Monday (28) in the French capital. Surrounded by enormous media repercussions, the trial is scheduled to start at 2:30 pm (9:30 am Brasília time) and will continue until May 23 at the Palace of Justice in Paris. Kim Kardashian, 44, announced that he will testify personally on May 13. Around 3 am on October 3, 2016, two hooded men broke into the hotel room where the famous American influencer was staying under a gun while she was in Paris for fashion week.
The attackers pointed to her and one of them, according to Kardashian’s report to the police, spoke to her in English with “a strong French accent” and demanded her ring. Then they tied it, gagged and locked it in the bathroom. The ring was of engagement that her then husband, rapper Kanye West, had given him a jewel rated in $ four million ($ 13 million at the time), and that 35 -year -old Kardashian displayed on social networks. She was always staying at the same hotel, a very exclusive but discreet place with little security. Kardashian often made live broadcasts on social networks about his whereabouts, so the temptation was too big for the “grandparents”, as the press dubbed them due to age, which at the time was around 60 years.
“It was not a big armed robbery,” but an easy work, “said the main suspect, Aomar Ait Khedache, identified by DNA. The robber admitted to having tied Kardashian, but denies being the leader of the theft, as the investigators claim. The attack was fast – about 10 minutes – but left the star traumatized. In total, the thieves stole $ 10 million in jewelry. This case is considered the biggest theft of a person in France in the last 20 years. Of all the robbery, only one necklace was found on the street, which the thieves dropped during the escape. Gold is believed to have been melted, and the investigators, who seized hundreds of thousands of euros in the house of the thieves, believe that most of the jewelry was sold in Belgium. These “old -fashioned bandits,” as the investigators called them, were arrested three months after theft.
Posted by Luisa Cardoso
*With information from AFP
