Kim Kardashian details confusion, terror of Paris robbery: 'Absolutely' thought she was going to die

Paris utilized to beryllium “magical” for Kim Kardashian. But the equipped robbery she experienced during Paris Fashion Week successful 2016 “changed everything,” she testified Tuesday successful France astatine the proceedings of 10 radical accused with plotting and pulling disconnected the crime.

She said she “absolutely” thought she was going to beryllium killed, the Associated Press reported. Then erstwhile her robe fell unfastened and exposed “everything” connected her body, she was convinced she was going to beryllium sexually assaulted.

“I was definite that was the infinitesimal that helium was going to rape me,” she told presiding justice David De Pas. “I perfectly did deliberation I was going to die.”

After proceeding stomping connected the stairs successful her two-story flat and calling retired for 1 of her sisters, Kardashian had been shocked erstwhile strangers appeared successful her bedroom. She tried to telephone her bodyguard for help, but idiosyncratic snatched her telephone away.

“I thought it was immoderate benignant of violent attack,” Kardashian said, per the Guardian, explaining she was confused erstwhile the men showed up. “I didn’t rather get astatine archetypal that it was astir my jewelry.”

Then, she said, according to the BBC, “They picked maine up disconnected the furniture and grabbed maine and took maine down the hallway to look for much jewelry, much stuff.”

A weapon was pointed astatine her back. “That was the archetypal infinitesimal I thought, should I tally for it? But it wasn’t an option, truthful I conscionable stayed — and that’s the infinitesimal I realized I should conscionable bash immoderate they say.”

Kardashian said she tried to pass to the suspects that she had “babies” — astatine that clip conscionable 2 children, compared with 4 present — and needed to marque it location to them alive.

The world TV prima and quality mogul, who successful caller years has been studying law, coiled up with her arms and legs zip-tied and portion slapped implicit her mouth. The robbers yet abandoned her successful a bath arsenic they made their flight with loot worthy millions.

Kardashian, who finalized her divorcement from rapper hubby Kanye “Ye” West successful 2022, said the robbery “changed everything” astir however she and her household travel. “We ne'er thought we were ne'er not harmless earlier this.” Now she travels with aggregate bodyguards who enactment alternatively than heading disconnected to a abstracted edifice each evening, she said. At the clip of the robbery, the household had 1 bodyguard who had gone disconnected to a nine with sister Kourtney Kardashian.

Kim Kardashian present sheds her jewelry erstwhile she arrives location and sends it to a abstracted determination for safekeeping truthful she tin slumber comfortably astatine night, she testified.

The proceedings for the 10 suspects, ages 35 to 78, runs until May 23. Five are suspected of being successful the apartment, portion others are accused of helping to signifier the robbery. While 8 of them accidental they are guiltless of each accusations, 2 men whose DNA was recovered successful the flat person admitted their guilt.

Yunice Abbas, 71, is 1 of those who has admitted participating successful the robbery. He besides answered the judge’s questions connected Tuesday. Though helium has written a publication about his experiences that culminated successful the events of Oct. 3, 2016, and has discussed it successful interviews, Abbas told the tribunal that robbing Kardashian was a occupation “too many” and said helium “totally regrets” participating, per the Guardian.

Kardashian said she was shocked erstwhile she learned astir the book, the BBC reported. “Not lone did helium bash this, but present [he’s] making wealth disconnected that — my jewelry, my memories, the ticker my dada who passed distant gave maine erstwhile I graduated precocious school. I can’t get that back.

“It wasn’t conscionable jewelry ... idiosyncratic took distant my memories, and present helium is capitalizing by penning a book? It didn’t look just to me.”

After the robbers fled, Kardashian managed to get her hands escaped and hopped downstairs to wherever her stylist and person Simone Harouche was staying, the New York Post reported. When the Paris constabulary arrived, she said, she was “confused if they were existent constabulary due to the fact that the different guys were dressed arsenic police.”

“I didn’t cognize who to trust,” she said.

The suspects look charges including equipped robbery, kidnapping and rank successful a transgression gang, each of which transportation the imaginable for beingness imprisonment, the AP said.

Investigators judge the suspects gleaned clues from Kardashian’s societal media posts astatine the clip and exploited them to program their crime. Since the robbery, she says she has drastically changed what she posts.