Kim Kardashian will probably be compelled to relive $10M heist horror amid ‘nuclear’ battle with ex Kanye West

Kim Kardashian will testify on the trial of the Paris gang accused of robbing her at gunpoint 9 years in the past, DailyMail.com can affirm – amid her ‘nuclear’ battle together with her ex-husband Kanye West.

In a surprising $10 million heist in 2016, Kardashian was sure, gagged and locked within the lavatory of her penthouse lodge suite, earlier than the thieves made off together with her lavish jewellery assortment, together with the $4million engagement ring West gave her.

All dozen defendants – who’ve been dubbed Kardashian’s Twelve after the Oceans movie collection starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt – are presently at liberty, having been launched from their high-security remand cells previous to their trial.

On the heart of the case is Aomar Aït Khedache, 69, a self-confessed profession legal who’s affectionately referred to as Previous Omar to French reporters and who has freely admitted to being the chief of the gang.

One his key lieutenants, Yunice Abbas, now 72, has even written a e book unambiguously entitled I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian. 

The group, nicknamed the Grandpa Robbers within the French media, are scheduled to start their trial in April, and Kardashian will ship her testimony to the jury in Might.

Kardashian was sure, gagged and locked in a toilet, earlier than the robbers made off together with her lavish jewelry assortment, together with a $4million engagement ring from Kanye West (above)

The upcoming court docket date comes within the wake of her dramatic feud together with her ex-husband Kanye West, whom she left in 2021 after practically seven years of marriage.

Their battle of wills burst into the general public eye earlier this month after West disregarded Kardashian’s objections and dropped a tune that includes their 11-year-old daughter North together with Diddy, who’s awaiting trial on expenses together with intercourse trafficking. 

Sources then claimed Kardashian ended one in all North’s visits together with her father as a result of self-described misogynist Andrew Tate was going to be current together with his brother Tristan.

The alleged episode with the Tates – who’re dealing with expenses in Romania together with human trafficking and intercourse with a minor – is claimed to have prompted Kardashian to name an emergency custody listening to. 

West aimed a string of scathing rants at Kardashian on X final week, attacking her parenting and complaining {that a} white girl was in ‘management’ of his ‘black youngsters.’ 

Kardashian is claimed to be contemplating making use of for full custody of the 4 youngsters she shares with West – North, 11, Saint, 9, Chicago, seven, and Psalm, six. 

A supply claimed Kardashian and her youngsters have been apprehensive West was ‘sinking additional down’ mentally amid the previous couple’s explosive conflict, by way of Page Six.

The insider alleged West, who maintains he was incorrectly recognized with bipolar dysfunction, was ‘clearly not taking his meds, if he was we wouldn’t be right here.’

The upcoming court docket date comes within the wake of her dramatic feud together with her ex-husband Kanye West, whom she is pictured with in 2019 at Diddy’s fiftieth celebration 

Kardashian is claimed to be contemplating making use of for full custody of the 4 youngsters she shares with West – North, 11, Saint, 9, Chicago , seven, and Psalm, six 

After his outbursts on X, West, 47, is presupposed to have flown to Tokyo, the place a number of sources mentioned he instantly grew to become calmer, based on TMZ.

In February 2017, 4 months after her Paris theft, Kardashian spent eight hours testifying to a French decide in New York Metropolis, an expertise she later recounted on Protecting Up With The Kardashians.

‘It was only a actually lengthy factor as a result of it’s a must to clarify it to a translator after which the translator has to clarify it to the decide. Then, she writes it with the clerk after which they need to learn what you wrote. You need to do it sentence by sentence,’ she mentioned.

‘Stepping into there, I used to be so labored up wanting to clarify it so shortly and also you simply cannot try this,’ she recalled. ‘You simply have to love be actually sluggish and stroll by way of the whole night time like second by second and that was simply actually onerous.’

Kardashian additionally defined that she discovered it ‘actually attention-grabbing to see the faces’ of the accused, saying: ‘Simply by their top and weight, I might inform who from this lineup was within the room with me. I used to be in a position to see who confessed.’

She continued: ‘One in every of them was the man that was within the room with me and it was very attention-grabbing to listen to his story and it was fairly just like my story.’

Kardashian claimed that ‘there was like a couple of issues they don’t seem to be saying to get lesser expenses,’ however added that the alleged robbers ‘have been fairly trustworthy and did inform many of the story precisely like the way it occurred.’

It is not going to be till the tip of subsequent month on the earliest that Aït Khedache, Abbas and the opposite 10 defendants will lastly seem within the dock on the Paris Assizes, accused of ‘armed theft in an organized gang’, ‘kidnap’ and ‘legal conspiracy’.

Regardless of the levity of some concerned, these are vastly severe expenses which might nicely see the older defendants locked up for the remainder of their lives.

Kardashian is pictured on October 2, 2016, the day earlier than the heist 

A french police automotive is seen exterior Kim Kardashian’s Luxurious Condominium after being robbed at gunpoint by masked males throughout Paris Trend Week

Yunice Abbas, now 72, has even written a e book unambiguously entitled, I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian

However delays have been fixed all through the 9 years so nobody will probably be stunned if the April date slips.

Officers from the elite Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) of the Paris Judicial Police are significantly offended about this, having caught the entire alleged gang in simultaneous raids again as way back in January 2017.

The detectives have been satisfied that justice can be swift and decisive, however timetabling issues brought on by high-profile terrorist trials triggered backlogs.

There have been additionally fears that publicity due to the Kardashian connection course of would destroy the upmarket Paris tourism business at a time of status five-star occasions, proper up till final summer season’s Olympics.

So 9 years on, many of the key defendants are additionally outdated and sick, which means that they have been all free of high-security remand cells the place they have been initially anticipated to stay till trial.

Pissed off by the continual adjournments, investigators have in the meantime offered a unprecedented account of the raid to MailOnline.

Leaks embrace a neatly typed doc itemizing Kardashian’s married identify earlier than her 2022 divorce, studying, VICTIM: Ms. Kimberly Kardashian-West (injury of $10,000,000).

Officers from the elite Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) (pictured) of the Paris Judicial Police are significantly offended about this, having caught the entire alleged gang in simultaneous raids again as way back in January 2017

The police file reveals how a mix of DNA and CCTV evaluation, cellphone faucets and geolocation, and dogged dedication by detectives together with the bodily tailing of suspects, led to the smashing of Omar & Co inside two months of their Hollywood-style heist.

The saga started again in the summertime of 2016, when Previous Omar bought a tip {that a} ‘massive American star was coming to city’ and that she was exhibiting off her fabulous wealth on Instagram.

This was a time when old skool criminals have been abandoning conventional heists for so-called sauccissons – ‘sausage raids’ which contain following wealthy individuals into their houses, ‘wrapping them up like sausages’ after which forcing them at gunpoint to say the place they stored their valuables, earlier than stealing them.

In accordance with prosecutors, the Kardashian tip got here from Florus Héroui, who ran a bar in Le Marais.

The central Paris district has at all times been a hotbed {of professional} criminals, however is now additionally populated by rich creatives, together with actors and fashionistas.

Héroui is claimed to have gotten exact details about Ms Kardashian’s actions throughout Paris Trend Week from Gary Madar, a VIP greeter who usually met stars as they arrived at Paris Le Bourget airport by non-public jet.

Crucially, Madar was trusted and favored by Ms Kardashian, and had shut household hyperlinks to the automotive firm she at all times used when in France – and so they have been photographed collectively many instances.

Previous Omar was fleeing justice on the time, having been arrested for his alleged involvement in a medication racket, and was counting on his petite blonde mistress, Christiane Glotin, for secure homes to remain in.

Héroui is claimed to have gotten exact details about Ms Kardashian’s actions throughout Paris Trend Week from Gary Madar (above), a VIP greeter who usually met stars as they arrived at Paris Le Bourget airport by non-public jet

Bodyguard Pascal Duvier, Gary Madar and Kourtney Kardashian are seen at Charles-de-Gaulle airport on September 29, 2016 in Paris

Michael Madar, Bodyguard Pascal Duvier and Gary Madar are seen at Charles-de-Gaulle airport on September 29, 2016 in Paris

Higher recognized merely as Cathy, the Marais-born 79-year-old who was first convicted of drug trafficking within the early Nineties, is on the Kardashian cost sheet as a key organiser of the heist.

Again in 2016, she allegedly joined Omar and different gang members ‘oggling Kim’s jewels after Googling photos on a pc,’ based on a police investigator.

‘None of them had a lot concept who Kim was, however they favored her very costly bling,’ the supply added.

All have been significantly focused on Ms Kardashian’s 18.88-carat engagement ring, particularly after she proudly introduced that she ‘didn’t put on faux jewelry’.

Scouting out the star’s Paris handle was simple, Omar instructed detectives – the gang merely needed to observe Ms Kardashian’s Mercedes V-Class individuals service to search out out that she was staying within the Hôtel de Pourtalès, a transformed mansion near La Madeleine church.

Higher referred to as the ‘No Deal with’, Pourtalès is a group of dream flats which have welcomed a number of Hollywood A-listers, together with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, in addition to Madonna and the late Prince.

Crucially, the tip was that Ms Kardashian would get pleasure from some ‘me time’ alone within the Sky Penthouse at Pourtalès, whereas permitting her workers and relations out in town.

That is precisely what occurred within the early hours of October third, when, at 2.20am, three cyclists in fluorescent yellow vests approached the No Deal with and parked their bikes within the courtyard.

A common view of Kim Kardashian’s luxurious condominium Resort de Pourtales on Rue Tronchet within the eighth arrondissement, the place she was robbed at gunpoint by masked males

Kim Kardashian and her bodyguard Pascal Duvier seen out and about in Paris earlier than the theft on October 2, 2016

Two extra arrived on foot, and all of them have been additionally carrying black balaclavas and police armbands earlier than confronting the property’s solely concierge, Abderrahmane Ouatiki, an Algerian father-of-one and Paris College PhD scholar then aged 39.

Pointing an vintage Mauser 7.65mm at his head, the gang led Mr Ouatiki upstairs to the penthouse, the place Ms Kardashian was mendacity on her mattress in her bathrobe.

The then 35-year-old mother-of-two was alone after her German bodyguard, Pascal Duvier – whom she later sacked – went out dancing at L’Arc, a nightclub by the Arc de Triomphe, with a gaggle that additionally included her sister, Kourtney Kardashian.

Kim Kardashian recalled listening to noises exterior the door, later telling officers: ‘I mentioned ‘Howdy!’, however since nobody answered, I knew one thing was unsuitable.’

Two ‘aggressive males’ in black police uniforms then burst in with the handcuffed Mr Ouatiki.

Ms Kardashian intially tried to name 911 – the American police emergency quantity – on her iPhone 6, however in fact it didn’t work in France.

‘He places a gun on to her head,’ Mr Ouatiki recalled. ‘She’s crying, she’s screaming. She’s saying, “Do not kill me, I’ve infants, please, I’ve infants! I am a mother! Take what you need!” She’s carrying only a gown and her hair is tied again.’

To forestall Ms Kardashian from screaming too loudly, the robbers taped her mouth shut earlier than locking her in her lavatory.

They spent a full 49 minutes within the penthouse, earlier than leaving with a haul estimated to be value round $10million.

As they fled, one accidently dropped a platinum cross adorned with diamonds that was discovered the following morning.

After slicing by way of her ties herself, Ms Kardashian went to a different condominium downstairs, the place her stylist, Simone Harouche, had barricaded herself in a toilet.

A suspect in Kim Kardashian West’s Paris theft is dropped at BRB constructing, Brigade de Repression du Banditisme in 2017

A suspect in Kim Kardashian West’s Paris theft is dropped at BRB constructing, Brigade de Repression du Banditisme in 2017

Police have been then alerted, and so they took statements from Ms Kardashian earlier than she was allowed to journey to Le Bourget at 7.40am, to take her non-public jet dwelling.

In flip, Kanye West ended a live performance in New York early, due to ‘a household emergency’. He was taking care of the couple’s younger youngsters, Saint and North.

Again in Paris, detectives quickly gathered two genetic fingerprints on the Serflex ties used to restrain Ms Kardashian and Mr Ouatiki.

The samples corresponded to the prints of Aït Khedache and Abbas – each of whom had their particulars throughout police forensic databases due to their legal antecedents.

Painstackingly gathering all video recordings within the space, detectives additionally discovered loads of incriminating photographs.

They included a number of sightings of a Peugeot 508 which was pushed by Aït Khedache’s son, Harminy Aït Khedache.

Brigadier Christophe Korrell – a police phone specialist – additionally went by way of 7,591 cellular phone calls made within the Madelaine space across the theft between October 2nd and third.

Amongst them was a quantity starting with 07 50 that Brig. Korrell described as a basic disposal ‘battle cellphone’ usually utilized by crime lords.

The ‘battle cellphone’ in query was owned by Previous Omar, whereas others have been linked to all the opposite prime suspects.

These included Didier ‘Blue Eyes’ Dubreucq, who was allegedly the second robber to truly enter the penthouse, together with Previous Omar.

Dubreucq had served 23 years in jail for a put up workplace theft and for importing two tons of Colombian cocaine into Europe by way of a Saudi Arabian prince’s non-public jet.

Moderately than arrest the suspects right away, the BRB launched tailing operations, which included inserting GPS surveillance gadgets on suspects’ automobiles.

That is when new ‘faces’ appeared, together with Marceau ‘Tough Nostril’ Baumgertner – an alleged Paris fence who’s charged with ‘concealment of stolen gold, jewels and watches’.

Often called a gypsy market dealer with a pet canine known as Al Capone, the 70-year-old is recorded as having made journeys to Antwerp – the diamond capital of Europe – with Previous Omar and Glotin to allegedly promote the Kardashian jewelry.

Previous Omar has instructed police the gold was melted down and resold, whereas saying he has ‘no concept’ the place Ms Kardashian’s ring ended up.

By December fifth 2016, BRB officers have been allegedly watching the gang ‘sharing the loot’ on the terrace of a Marais café near the one the place Omar had acquired his first tip about Ms Kardashian.

Lengthy-focus lenses caught all of them smoking closely and sipping espressos within the winter sunshine.

A month later – on January ninth 2017 – the BRB burst into all their houses, handcuffed them, and positioned them in custody.

Aït Khedache initially denied any wrongdoing, however when he heard in regards to the DNA proof in opposition to him, he made a full confession.

It adopted one of many detectives telling him in a recorded interview: ‘We now have your child [Harminy Aït Khedache] and your girlfriend [Cathy Glotin] in custody, and we’ll make their lives depressing when you do not speak’.

Deeply traumatized by the theft, Ms Kardashian prevented Paris for greater than a 12 months, so investigating decide Armelle Briand needed to journey to the USA to interview her.

The very first thing Ms Kardashian instructed Decide Briand was: ‘I’ve a sense that it isn’t the correct place for me, I imply Paris.

‘I do not forget that I had an indescribable feeling, as if my coronary heart would go away my physique, I assumed that I used to be going to die.’

In accordance with her recorded testimony, Ms Kardashian added: ‘This expertise opened my eyes to the truth that the world was now not a secure place.’

She mentioned her ‘relationship with valuables had modified’, and that ‘it is turn into a burden to be accountable for such costly gadgets.’

It stays to be seen whether or not Ms Kardashian arrives in Paris in April to provide proof in court docket in opposition to her alleged assailants.

Regardless of some confessions, and the authorized proper of police and prosecution to leak details about the case, all formally stay harmless till proved responsible in reference to the biggest jewelry theft dedicated in opposition to a single particular person in France this century.

As the times go by, one of many defendants instructed Mail On-line: ‘At this price we’ll all be showing within the dock in wheelchairs or coffins.’