It is not strictly speaking a "major" trial that opened in the Paris criminal court on Monday, April 28. But the hearing attracted media from around the world. Over the past month, the explanations of the "grandpa robbers" – a collective nickname due to their advanced age – were interrogated, accused of kidnapping and tying up Kim Kardashian and stealing several pieces of her jewelry in October 2016.

The public, meanwhile, was primarily there to see and hear the American reality TV star, who testified in person, as she had promised. "One can already imagine, in this historic courthouse that has seen so much, the squads of gendarmes mobilized on the day of her testimony, scheduled for May 13, ensuring the safety of the plaintiff with 357 million Instagram followers and the long queue of her fans along Boulevard du Palais in the heart of Paris," wrote Le Monde's legal correspondent, Pascale Robert-Diard, on April 28.

Le Monde has long ignored Kardashian, then spoke of her with some disdain − including by using sexist remarks. There was no way the newspaper would embrace celebrity news and all its trivialities. In her column dedicated to the follies of the internet, Marlène Duretz mentioned the American for the first time in the paper on June 10, 2011. The journalist poked fun at the various rankings proliferating online, in a short article titled "Nice Curves." One of these lists, she wrote, was devoted to the "sexiest female stars," and between actress Jessica Alba and singer Jennifer Lopez stood "the voluptuous Kim Kardashian, whose 'curves drive men crazy.'" The paper's readers would learn no more.

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