Kim Kardashian jewelry heist trial begins in Paris

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A proceedings implicit the 2016 heist successful which equipped robbers tied up world prima Kim Kardashian successful her chamber and stole millions of dollars' worthy of jewelry has begun successful Paris.

Ten radical – 9 men and a pistillate – are connected proceedings connected charges of robbery and kidnapping of the media property and the concierge of the residence wherever she was staying connected the nighttime of Oct. 2, 2016. Two of them acknowledged their information and the others denied it.

Kardashian was successful France for Fashion Week erstwhile men dressed arsenic constabulary officers allegedly tied her up with zip ties and duct tape, held her astatine gunpoint and stole $9 million' worthy of jewelry, including a $4 cardinal diamond ringing fixed to her by her then-husband Kanye West.

In interviews and connected her family's world TV show, Kardashian described being terrified, reasoning she was going to beryllium raped and killed erstwhile the criminals broke into her chamber and pointed a weapon astatine her.

"They dragged maine retired to the hallway connected apical of the stairs, that's erstwhile I saw the weapon similar wide arsenic day," she said connected her show, "Keeping Up with the Kardashians. "It makes maine truthful upset reasoning astir it."

Her lawyers said she volition attest successful idiosyncratic astatine the trial, with a provisional docket showing that is expected to hap connected May 13. The proceedings is scheduled to tally done May 23.

"Ms. Kardashian is reserving her grounds for the tribunal and assemblage and does not privation to elaborate further astatine this time," they said. "She has large respect and admiration for the French justness strategy and has been treated with large respect by the French authorities. She wishes the proceedings to proceed successful an orderly fashion, successful accordance with French instrumentality and with respect for each parties to the case."

Twelve radical were primitively expected successful the defendants' box. One of them died and different is earnestly sick and can't beryllium tried. According to the investigation, 5 of the 10 defendants were contiguous astatine the country of the robbery.

The French property has dubbed them The Granddad Robbers due to the fact that the main defendants are older – astir successful their 60s and 70s – and person been slope robbers with agelong transgression records.

One of them – 77-year-old Yunice Abbas – has publically admitted to being a lookout during the robbery. His DNA was recovered astatine the scene.

He said helium was unarmed and did not personally endanger Kardashian, but admitted helium shared work for the crime.

In 2021, helium co-authored a French-language publication titled "I Sequestered Kim Kardashian."

Abbas told reporters that helium volition apologize during the proceedings and volition springiness details of his relation successful the heist but won't denounce anyone else.

The alleged ringleader, 68-year-old Aomar Aït Khedache, is 1 of 2 suspected robbers who allegedly entered the apartment. Nicknamed "Old Omar," his familial illustration was recovered connected the portion utilized to gag Kardashian.

He near the edifice connected a bicycle, arsenic did 2 others, past met his son, who was waiting for him successful a parked car astatine a adjacent bid station.

The different defendants are suspected of providing accusation astir Kardashian's beingness successful the apartment. Others are accused of playing a relation successful the resale of the jewelry successful Antwerp, Belgium.

The gangsters stole galore pieces of jewelry. Only 1 portion of jewelry — a diamond transverse connected platinum that was mislaid during the suspects' flight — has been recovered.

The suspects accused of robbing Kardashian volition basal proceedings by jury, which successful France is reserved for the astir superior crimes.

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