There was a hint of satisfaction in the voice of the chief police investigator when he appeared before the Paris criminal court to report on his team's work in the Kim Kardashian robbery case on Monday, May 5. Even if Michel Malecot has 35 years of experience under his belt, it's not every day he finds himself tasked with tracking down the masked men who held an American reality TV star hostage in a Paris hotel suite and robbed her of $9 million worth of jewelry (approximately €7.9 million).

When the officers arrived on the scene at 4 am on October 3, 2016, a "very shocked" Kardashian let them into her suite. Between what she and the hotel's night watchman, Abderrahmane Ouatiki, said, it emerged that the team of robbers included a "short nervous man with thick glasses" and another "kinder" one, who went upstairs, while three accomplices remained in the lobby. Ouatiki added a valuable detail: He saw bicycles, including a foldable one with small wheels.

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