Kim Kardashian in Paris on May 13.
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Kim Kardashian said she was thinking “absolutely” that she was going to die “in her testimony against the crew of men and a woman, accused of having attacked her and stealing $ 9 million in jewelry in her hotel room in 2016, according to NBC News. The crew of ten people, now nicknamed the “grandfather thieves” by the French media because of their age, are tried for accusations such as armed robbery in an organized gang, kidnapping and, for a certain complicity, by the New York Times. In her emotional testimony of May 13, which started at 8 am at the courthouse in Paris, Kardashian recalled how she was in bed when thieves broke into her room, at Hôtel de Pourtalès, disguised as police with the concierge of the Menotté hotel. She said they had pushed her on the bed and stuck her hands and mouths. “He grabs my legs and pulls me. I’m naked and my everything is exposed,” she said by NBC News. “I was sure I was going to be raped.” She also told the judge “I absolutely thought I was going to die.”
“I have babies and I need to go home with my babies,” she recalls to thieves. She also prayed for her sister Kourtney, fearing that Kardashian’s older sister returns to the room and would find “that I would have died on the bed, shot down and that she would have this memory forever”.
Kardashian remembers having managed to remove his adhesive tape after being left in the bathroom, then jumping in his childhood room Simone Harouche the floor below, where Harouche helped cut the zipped links. The two then hid in bushes to call Kris Jenner, who was present in the courtroom, according to the Daily mailand the police. Kardashian noted that she “did not know who to trust” when the police showed up, because the thieves were also disguised as a police.
She also addressed her own theory, shared on an episode of 2017 of Follow the KardashiansThat the thieves learned that she was alone at the hotel through her story Snapchat. Later, she realized that she was wrong, saying that she “returned and looked at the snapchat and it was not the same night of this. It was the previous night. ”
Although it was the first time Kardashian spoke in court, the trial began on April 28 and is scheduled until May 22, with a verdict expected on May 23. The flight took place on October 3, 2016 and made a new international. With hindsight, Kardashian told court that she thought: “It was well planned”. She said that the French magistrate told her that the suspects had planned to steal her during a previous visit to Paris but stopped the plan because her husband at the time was with her. The court was embedded at 10:00 a.m. and returned to 10:30 am, the chief judge is still in question, how rumors Kardashian addressed rumors that she had simulated the theft. “It was really difficult for me when people said I got into my television show; I was not filming my television show,” she said. “It was really hurtful, it was something that really stung deeply.”
After his initial testimony, the judge read Kardashian a declaration by one of the accused, Aomar Ait Khedache, Deaf and Mute. He asked for forgiveness, writing “I am obviously emotional on this subject, this experience changed my life and that changed the life of my family.”
“I appreciate the letter. I forgive you what happened, ”replied Kardashian. “But that does not change emotion and feelings and trauma and the fact that my life has changed forever.”
