Kim Kardashian herself will testify at the Paris criminal court. 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. It is also likely that among the 50 citizens summoned for this session, more than usual will hope to be one of the six jurors drawn to sit alongside the three professional judges. The trial of the robbers of the American reality TV star begins Monday, April 28, and will last for three weeks.
On October 3, 2016, around 3:15 am, officers from the anti-gang brigade entered the exclusive No Address hotel at 7 Rue Tronchet (8th arrondissement), climbed to the suite occupied by Kardashian and found a woman "shocked, very pale, her face distraught, without makeup." "I thought they were terrorists who had come to kidnap me, I thought I was going to die," she told them. An hour earlier, Kardashian had been tied up and gagged on her bed, then placed in the bathtub with her hands bound with plastic cables and tape, while two masked men, wearing fluorescent jackets marked "police," stole her jewelry before joining three accomplices waiting in the lobby. Estimated value of the heist: $9 million worth of jewelry (approximately €7.9 million), including $4 million for the single ring on the bedside table, a sumptuous 18.88-carat diamond given to the star by her then-husband, rapper Kanye West.
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