Kim Kardashian is due to take the stand at a trial over a 2016 heist in Paris in which armed “grandpa robbers” made off with jewellery worth $10 million.

She had long said that Paris was “not the right place” for her, but almost a decade after her ordeal, the reality TV star will return to the City of Light to testify on May 13 at the Court of Appeal of Paris – the largest appeals court in France, on the Île de la Cité.

She will face a group of 10 defendants – most of whom are pensioners – for the first time in a trial beginning on Monday that will run for a month. It will comprise a presiding judge, two professional assessors, and six main jurors. The hearing involves more than 2,000 documents and there are four civil parties.

Five of the accused face armed robbery and kidnapping charges. The others are charged with complicity in the heist or the unauthorised possession of a weapon.