The assault in 2016 resulted in theft of jewelry valued at $ 10 million, including the engagement ring offered by Kanye West. Ten suspects go to trial for the crime.
American businesswoman and socialite Kim Kardashian is expected to testify this Tuesday in a court in Paris, in the At hand armed in his hotel room in the capital of France, in 2016.
The suspects will have stolen about $ 10 million in jewelry (about 8.9 million euros) after breaking into the hotel room where Kim Kardashian was staying for Paris fashion week.
The television star was threatened with a gun and tied with tape. Among the stolen jewels is the $ 4 million engagement ring (about 3.5 million euros) offered by Kanye West, her then husband at the time.
In an interview in 2020, quoted by Reuters, Kim Kardashian recalled the fear he felt that night.
“They kept saying ‘the ring, the ring’. I kept looking at the doorman, ”said the businesswoman and model, referring to the hotel employee who had been forced to take the robbers to the bedroom.
“I thought, ‘Let’s die? Tell them that I have children, I have babies … I have to go home.'”
“The target was not her, it was the diamond”
According to Reuters, . They are part of the so -called “Grandpa Gang” and almost all suspects are in their 60s and 70s.
Yunice Abbas, 71, and one of the He told the French press that the robbers group did not know who Kim Kardashian was.
“The target was not her, it was the diamond,” he revealed at the time Abbas, in an interview in which he admitted his participation in the theft. The suspect even wrote a book about his role.
In interviews with the French media, he said he was sorry for what he did and wanted to apologize to Kim Kardashian.
