The night when several armed thieves tied Kim Kardashian and forced her to teach jewelry worth millions of dollars, she left her traumatized and changed her life forever, said her best friend and stylist in front of a court in Paris.
Kim Kardashian was accompanied by Kris Jenner Photo Profimedia
Kim Kardashian said on Tuesday at a Paris court that she thought she would be raped and killed during the 2016 robbery. Dressed in black and wearing bright jewelry, the star arrived in the court accompanied by her mother.
“I thought I would die“, She said before the court, crying as she testified.”I thought of my sister, that he would come in and see me shot dead and that he will remain forever with this memory“, The star said.
“I came to Paris for Fashion Week, Paris was always a place I loved so much. I was leaving the next morning, so I was doing my luggage, it was about three in the morning. I heard steps climbing the stairs when I was in bed. A few policemen enter my bedroom, or so I thought, they were police, because they had police uniforms. Then I heard one of the gentlemen saying, ‘The ring! The ring! ‘, In English, with accent, pointing to his finger. I was filled with hysteria and looked at the porter and asked him what would happen to us, that I have to get home to my children“Kardashian said before the court.
Kim Kardashian Photo Profimedia
The star said that, at one point, he was afraid he would be raped because the thieves threw her on the bed, and one of them took her foot. “But tied me and brought my feet closer“She said.
Before the testimony of Kardashian, his stylist, Simone Harouche, who was sleeping in the same apartment in the luxury hotel complex at the time of the attack, said before the “terror” court they both felt during the robbery.
Speaking for the first time about the 2016 attack, Simone Harouche said that he thought the American star was to be raped and that they would both die, after waking up in the middle of the night because of Kardashian’s horror screams, The Guardian reports.
Kim Kardashian Photo Profimedia
Harouche, 45, hid in the bathroom and tried to ask for help when men entered the luxury duplex.
“I work for Kim and I am also her friend for a long time. I know her very well, I know her voice tone, gestures, when she is happy. We are childhood friends.”she said.
“So, when I heard that sound, it was completely different and woke me out of sleep because it was a sound that I had never heard from Kim. It was terror. What I heard clear was:” I have children and I have to live. “That repeat.” Take everything-but I have to live. “
“I thought they would come after me too.”
At one point, Harouche broke out in tears while the story was afraid he would never see his children, who were two and four at that time.
“I thought they would come after me and I was very afraid of what was happening to my friend, up. I had no idea what was going on, and I was afraid she was raped or assaulted. I was expecting what was worse.”
Harouche said that after the thieves left with estimated jewelry at $ 10 million (7.5 million pounds), including the 18.9 carat engagement ring offered by Kanye West, worth about $ 4 million, Kardashian, with ankle glued with adhesive tape, jumped on the stairs.
Thieves tied his feet with adhesive tape
Harouche said that after the thieves left with estimated jewelry at $ 10 million (7.5 million pounds), including the 18.9 carat engagement ring offered by Kanye West, worth about $ 4 million, Kardashian, with ankle glued with adhesive tape, jumped on the stairs.
“This is Kim – I am the kind that hides, it is the kind that takes care of others.”Harouche said in court.
She added: “I see my girlfriend with her legs tied and her thin, light, completely wrinkled and fired robe, obviously I thought she could have been rarely raped or assaulted. She was outside her; I never saw her. Will we be safe?
Kim Kardashian remained traumatized
She said that they both suffered from post-traumatic stress, and Kardashian has permanently lost an essential part of her personal freedom.
“At that time it was very free and we never thought that in the hotel room we would not be safe.”
“I think there was therapy for a long time after this happened.”Harouche said.
Asked if Kardashian took risks by showing her wealth and location on social networks, Harouche replied: “The fact that a woman wears jewelry does not mean that she becomes a target. It’s like saying that if a woman wears a short skirt, it is worth raping.”
A group of men – some of them elderly, nicknamed by the French press “Grandfather thieves” – They are tried in Paris, being accused of stealing jewelry worth millions of euros from the television star in the France’s capital for Fashion Week in 2016.
Ten suspects, between the ages of 35 and 78, are tried until May 23. Some are accused of helping to organize the robbery. Eight of them deny any involvement.
