Paris – There were highly security measures and the monitoring of the crowds in force on Tuesday in the Central Paris court, where Kim Kardashian He was appointed to give evidence in A trial on armed robbery 2016 Where a convincing gang made her jewelry worth $ 10 million during her visit to the French capital. The court opened early to allow reporters and members of the public before the emergence of Kardashian this afternoon.
About 400 correspondents applied to the trial, but only 40 places were allocated to the media inside the courtroom. A side room was created for another 200 journalist to see a direct movement transmission from inside the courtroom. The session will not be broadcast publicly, as France rarely allows cameras in courtrooms.
Kardashian lawyers She said she was determined to testify Personally, on the night that was claimed and stolen at gunpoint while in Paris for the Fashion Week. Ten people – nine men and women – face charges, including theft and kidnapping against the American media personality and the residence console, where she was staying on October 2, 2016.
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Before the celebrities took care of herself, her friend, who has long turned Simon Harush, told the court on Tuesday that she heard that Kardashian beg her life during the attack in the hotel’s wing they were sharing.
“I have children and I need to live!” This is what I continued to say, “Take everything.” I was afraid to rape or violate it. I thought the worst. “
The representatives of the prosecution told the court that when the gang, who was wearing police officers, arrived at the luxurious Suites, known as the “title” that Kardashian was, they demanded that the Conservatory, under the threat of weapons, to the “wife of the rapper”, in reference to her husband Kanye West at the time. Spouses Divorce In 2022.
Kardashian said that as soon as they arrived in the apartment, the thieves were grabbed a pistol on it, and then tied her wrists and ankles with the zip code and adhesive tape, all the time demanding thick French dialects: “The episode,”, in reference to the diamond ring of $ 4 million gave it the West.
In interviews and on her realistic TV program for her family, Kardashian described as terrified while infiltrating, believing that she would be raped and killed.
“They took me out to the corridor above the stairs, when I saw the gun, like a clear day.”
Thieves, some of whom fled bicycles, called “Grandpa” “because most of the suspects were in their sixties at the time of the theft.
While fleeing, they dropped a cross of diamonds and platinums that were found the next morning by a local resident. The rest of the distances have not been recovered.
The DNA of two defendants were found at the scene, and they admitted to participate in the theft. AOMAR AIT KHedache, now 69 years old, is accused of eliminating theft. According to what was reported, the investigators told that I had no idea about who was Kardashian, but he heard from the waiter’s friend about the amazing jewelry she wore when she was eating in Paris.
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According to Khadr, he wrote to Kardashian in 2017, while he was in reservation, to apologize. Her lawyers said that he wrote after he heard her talking about the shock of the experience. He did not apologize in court.
Yunis Abbas, 71, admitted that he was looking for the gang. In court on April 29, he expressed “complete regret” of his role in theft. He said he then understood, “When a woman’s wallet steals, she can be a shock” for her.
A police officer said, with his testimony of the court, that Kardashian appeared “shock” in the wake of the direct theft.
Lawyers of some of the defendants expressed their concern with the opening of the trial last month that Kardashian’s fame would distract their attention on the basics of the case.
“It is, in fact, worried about seeing all you have, journalists, because he is afraid that his case will not be treated in the same way if there is no famous person in that,” Chloe Arno, who represents Khadrsh, told reporters.
Kardashian’s lawyer Michael Rhodes said in April that the reality TV star and businessman were “great” and admired by the French judicial system, “and” he wants to move forward in the trial in an organized manner in accordance with French law and the obligations of all parties in the case. “