Almost 3,150 days have passed, more than 8½ years, since Kim Kardashian was stolen at gunpoint in Paris. On Tuesday, you can finally testify against suspects.
For the fall of 2016, the Kim Kardashian West train had been accelerating through the celebrity landscape like a bullet for years, running for anyone on their way and leaving everyone else in the dust. She was all everywhere at once, all the time. He had married, then divorced, then he had babies, then married again. She broke the Internet. And that fame train seemed to surround the world to perpetuity.
Then came the Paris Fashion Week. What could go wrong?
In the morning hours of October 3, 2016, the Kim Kim Kim Train suddenly derailed: a men's party entered the two -story Paris pad of Kardashian, armed with weapons and strips and jewelry hunting. Specifically, Kardashian's jewels, which had flaunted social networks.
What happened in Paris's apartment?
Shortly after 2 at the local time, Kardashian was lying on the bed dressed only with a gown when he listened to people to trample the stairs in his two -story apartment in the Hôtel de Poustalès. It turned out that the men had been directed there by the night janitor, who said he had been threatened at gunpoint. She saw two of the boys, left the bed and tried to call her bodyguard before her phone took her away.
His dolls were bound with zipper and with the duct tape, and was grabbed by the ankles, at that time, he told the police, he thought he was going to be raped. On the other hand, her assailants tied to the ankles with adhesive tape and took her to the bathtub, while Kardashian shouted at them to take their money and jewels, but please forgive her life, because at that time she was the mother of two children.
The men did not speak English, but continued to say: “Ring, ring,” he told the police. After Kardashian told them where to find the massive diamond, a recent gift from the then husband Kanye West that he had been presuming on social networks, they were put in his mouth with the ducts.
Kardashian was inappropriate on the bathroom floor when the thieves left with their journey. A friend who was staying in a room below heard the shock and called the bodyguard of The reality Star, who had left with her sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall Jenner in a nearby club and quickly returned to the hotel.
Did people believe the story of Kardashian?
The public published by the Internet did not believe him, at least at the beginning. The self -denominated experts immediately suggested that he had staged everything for advertising, as if he couldn't get that just waking up and taking a selfie. The star of reality quickly sued mediakeout.com for defamation after he said he invented the story, lied about the assault and filed a fraudulent insurance claim. Meanwhile, the police quickly ruled out the notion that Kardashian was lying because he was very shaken, but seriously investigated if it was an internal job. (The night janitor and bodyguards are scheduled to testify at the trial).
Demand demand was resolved in a matter of weeks, CNN reported, and the website issued a retraction and acknowledged that Kardashian had been stolen at gunpoint.
When did the authorities arrested and accused the suspects?
The arrests occurred on January 10, 2017, when 17 people were arrested in multiple raids around Paris. Kardashian's driver was one of those arrested, but was released after questioning him. By 2021, the suspects had been reduced to 12 people who were scheduled to be judged. However, a suspect has died since he was questioned, and another has been excused from the trial because he is 81 years old and has advanced in Alzheimer's, the BBC reported.
In fact, the French media have referred to the main suspects such as grandparents thieves, due to their advanced ages: the older defendant is 78 years old. They really did not know who Kardashian was at the time of theft, but according to the reports he was told that he was “the wife of a rapper.” Ten suspects remain in the hook, including a woman. Of these, five entered the department of Kardashian during the robbery. The rest is accused of helping and inciting.
What have the suspects been doing since then?
A suspect, Yunice Abbas, told a French exit in 2022 that since Kardashian “was throwing money, he was there to pick him up, and that was that.
Now 71, Abbas, one of the two suspects whose DNA was found in the crime scene, has said he plans to apologize when he is in court. He also says he was unarmed and acted as an observation on the ground floor of the hotel.
“I saw one of his shows in which he threw his diamond in the pool in that episode of 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” he told Vice in 2022. “I thought:' She has a lot of money. This lady doesn't care about at all.”
The alleged intellectual author behind the plot, Aomar Ait Khedache, wrote a letter of apology to Kardashian from the prison in 2017, saying that he regretted his actions and realized the psychological damage he caused. “Old Omar” has admitted to Kardashian, but denies having been the brain behind the operation.
The other suspects, including the Harminy of the son of Ait Khedache, have maintained their innocence.
What happened to the jewels?
Jewels were stolen worth $ 6 million, or maybe it was worth $ 10 million, depending on which of the many accounts can be trusted. According to reports, Kardashian and her ex -husband Ye, previously known as Kanye West, presented insurance claims worth $ 5.6 million. In the 8 and a half years since the robbery, only one piece has been recovered: a diamond cross in the platinum that the suspects lost while they escaped by bicycles. Its value was estimated at just over $ 33,000, by Vanity Fair.
A 18.8 carat diamond ring, which was a gift for Kardashian from Ye, a Cosmographic Rolex of Yellow Daytona, seven Cartier and Hermès bracelets and three gold roasts and diamonds were on the tour, VF reported. Anything that was unique, like the stone in that diamond ring, has probably broken down in pieces and deleted, a jewelry expert in 2016 told People.
What happens later?
Kardashian will testify in Paris on Tuesday afternoon, around 5 in the morning in California. The judge will question it first, according to the New York Post, then by its lawyers, then by the prosecutors, and finally by the lawyers of the accused.
In mid -April, a Kardashian lawyer confirmed to the AP that he would testify at the trial, which began on April 28 and is scheduled to operate until May 23. But until it appears on the stand, according to the statement, the magnate of reality is “to reserve his testimony for the court and the jury and do not want to prepare more at this time.”
It sounds like French for “no comments.”
