PARIS (Reuters) – Celebrity billionaire Kim Kardashian on Tuesday gave evidence in the trial of a gang dubbed the “grandpa robbers” accused of stealing jewellery worth millions of euros from her at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week in 2016.
Here is what she told the court, while at times in tears:
“I came to Paris for fashion week. Paris was always a place that I loved so much. I used to walk around the city when I woke up in the middle of the night. I always felt very safe.”
“It was around three in the morning. I heard stomping up the stairs when I was in bed. I kept calling out for my sister and one of my best friends, but no one answered me. And in my bedroom comes in a few police officers, or that I assumed were police officers as they were in police uniforms.”
“I obviously was very confused. I had to make sense of what was happening. I was just about to fall asleep, naked with a robe on.”
“Then I heard one of the gentlemen forcefully say ‘Ring! Ring!’ in English, with an accent, pointing.”
“And I was still in such shock, because honestly a lot of terrorist attacks were happening in the world, and I thought it was some sort of terrorist attack, and I didn’t immediately understand it was for my jewelry.”
“They pulled me back in the room once they realized they had everything, and they threw me on the bed.”
“I was pretty hysterical and I just looked at the concierge and told him: ‘What is going to happen to us? I have to make it home to my babies.'”
“The other guy had a gun at me and it was at the end of the bed, so he grabs my leg and pulls me toward him on the bed so the robe is opened and everything is exposed and that was the moment when I thought he would rape me but he ended up tying me up and closed my legs.”
(Reporting by Juliette Jabkhiro; Writing by Makini Brice; Editing by Richard Lough)
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