Process for Raub 2016: Kim Kardashian to raid: “I thought I would die”

For US star Kim Kardashian, the appearance in Paris means a painful memory – a robbery overtime and a half years ago, in which she was sure to have to die in between. Elegant and dressed in black, with a high hair, the media star arrives in a car with darkened windows on the Palace of Justice, where there is a huge media hype hours before.

Usually Kardashian’s Paris visits are about fashion, chic shops and cafés. Now she has to review the brutal and traumatizing raid in a multi -hour statement with many queries, in which the perpetrators had captured jewelry at the time. The stars’ statements are sometimes emotional, tears flow.

“I thought I would die”

“I was absolutely certain, I thought I would die,” says Kardashian. “I thought it was a kind of terrorist attack, it was not clear to me that it was about my ring.” In the nightly attack on her in a Paris luxury residence in 2016, she was alone in her room when she suddenly heard loud noises. Two men dressed as police officers were stormed into their room, together with the hotel gatekeeper, which they had brought into force. One of the men called loudly in English: “The ring, the ring, the ring.”

After the intruders had found the valuable ring on their bed and another can with jewelry, the two had started to captivate them. Kardashian tells how to panic the gatekeeper: “Do we have to die now? I have two babies, I have to go back home”.

Cardashian was lying on the bed, tied up on hands and feet and also gagged. Her nightgown slipped and she was partly undressed. “That was the moment I thought they rape me,” said Kim Kardashian. “I prayed and put myself on it.”

“It was certain that they shoot me”

Instead, the perpetrators threatened them with a weapon. “I was sure that this was the moment they shoot me.” She imagined that her sister Kourtney would find her later, dead and shot on the bed.

Kardashian had been attacked in a luxury district in the chic 8th Parisian district on the night of October 3, 2016. Five robbers had appeared disguised as police officers before the residence. Two of them brought the gatekeeper into their violence and stormed masked and with a gun held in Kardashian’s room. There they threatened them with their guns, tied up and gagged them with adhesive tape on the arms and legs and captured jewelry worth around nine million euros, including the star’s engagement ring with an 18.88-carat diamond.

Kardashian thought of her children

In the trial for the robbery, Kardashian’s stylist, who was in the apartment during the attack, said. “I was afraid of my life and that of Kim,” said the woman who had traveled from the USA. “I have children, I have to stay alive, take everything with you,” Kim Kardashian screamed. “It was terror.”

When asked by the judge whether Kardashian may have made himself a target of robbers because she had presented herself with her expensive jewelry on social networks, the stylist reacted with incomprehension. “It’s like if you say:” If a woman wears a short skirt, she deserves to be raped “.”

“Opa gangstster” on the dock

Since the end of April, nine men and a woman in Paris have been in court because of the raid. The accused of around 60 years described the French press as “grandpa gangsters”. Two of them have been admitted, one even published a book for the robbery: “I attacked Kim Kardashian” (J’ai Séquestré Kim Kardashian). The other denies a participation in the crime. The captured jewelry has never been found, the investigators are sure that the perpetrators have made the precious prey in Antwerp.

It becomes emotionally in the process when the presiding judge reads an apology letter. One of the defendants from the pre -trial detention had addressed it to Kardashian in 2017 when he noticed how she talked about the consequences of the robbery on television.

US star moved to tears when the perpetrator is apologizing

Kardashian wrestles with her emotions and takes out a handkerchief to wipe tears away. She was always in favor of getting a second chance, says the US star. “I appreciate this letter, I’ll give you.” She also emphasizes that the apology does not undo all of this that she and her family had suffered. The now accused then writes an answer, which the judge in turn reads: “This forgiveness is a sun for me that will illuminate me.”