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Paris.- Kim Kardashian declared this Tuesday, before the Paris court that is judging the alleged perpetrators of the robbery she suffered in the hotel where she was staying on October 3, 2016, that that night she believed they were going to rape and kill her.
"I was sure I was going to die, absolutely," replied the social media star when asked by the president of the Paris Criminal Court if she feared for her life.
She said that "she was sure they were going to shoot me" when one of the two members of the command was gagging her and tying her up with cable ties, while another was pointing a gun at her.
She also stated that she feared she was going to be raped, especially when they were tying her up naked on the bed, after a dressing gown she was wearing had fallen off when the two robbers burst into the room.
The 'influencer', who wanted to thank "the French authorities" for allowing her to tell her "truth" at the beginning of her statement, began to sob when recalling the trauma she suffered from the attack she suffered in the luxury hotel where she was staying those days a few dozen meters from the Madeleine basilica: "When I came for Fashion Week, that changed everything."
Specifically, she indicated that while "before she felt safe at home", now she needs "to have four to six guards to feel safe at night", also because a month later her Los Angeles home was the object of a robbery when she was absent.
The thieves who held her up at gunpoint in the Paris hotel where she was staying during Paris Fashion Week that morning of October 3, 2016, took jewelry worth about 10 million dollars, in particular her wedding ring.
Everything happened between 2 and 3 in the morning, while her sister Kourtney had gone out partying and her bodyguard had gone with her. Kim Kardashian had stayed in the apartment she occupied in the luxury hotel and on the ground floor her stylist and friend Simone Harouche was sleeping.
The social media star said she heard noises of footsteps, that she called her sister and the friends who had left with her, but two hooded men entered her room with the hotel concierge, whom they had tied up, and who were wearing police uniforms, one of them armed with a pistol.
He Thought He Was the Victim of a Terrorist Attack
He explained that the scene horrified him and that, due to the context of the moment, he thought he might be the victim of a terrorist attack.
One of the two men took away the cell phone with which he was trying to call his security service, they tied him up and began to demand the wedding ring from him in approximate English, which they found.
She tried to tell them, through the concierge (the thieves didn't know English) to take whatever they wanted but not to kill her, that she had babies, and all that in a state of great nervousness: "She was quite hysterical".
When they finally left with the loot, he managed to loosen the restraints on his hands in the sink and, still with his legs bound, went down to Simone Harouche's room, where he managed to free himself from the bonds, but still fearing that the attackers might return.
Accused
Sitting on the bench in this trial are ten defendants (nine men and one woman) who are considered the members of the group that planned and carried out the robbery, known as the "yayoladrones" because several of them are over 70 years old, have a long criminal record and many years of imprisonment behind them.
Among them, Aomar Ait Khedache, whom the investigators consider the mastermind of the operation and one of the two who intimidated Kim Kardashian in her room to steal her jewels along with Marc-Alexandre Boyer.
The statement of the reality TV and social media star, who has 386 million followers on Instagram, generated enormous excitement at the historic Palace of Justice in the center of Paris, with hundreds of journalists and many onlookers and admirers among the public.
Dressed in black, with sunglasses and a diamond necklace, accompanied by her mother, the famous woman climbed the stairs of the old building located on the Île de la Cité, on the Seine and a stone's throw from Notre Dame, where the trial has been taking place for several weeks.
She was also accompanied by the filming crew of an audiovisual platform that is preparing a documentary.
