French authorities reportedly rounded up at least 15 people suspected
in the brazen Kim Kardashian heist that left the reality star bound and
gagged at gunpoint last year in Paris.
The suspected thieves were busted during sweeping raids conducted by
the Paris Bandit Brigade early Monday in Paris, Rouen and Grasse. No one
has been formally charged in the Oct. 3 robbery, according to Europe 1.
Mask-wearing men barged into Kardashian’s room at a posh hotel
demanding at least $5.6 million worth of jewelry, including the famed
diamond ring from Kanye West she showed off on social media. The
36-year-old mother of two was tied up, gagged and thrown into a bathtub
as the men rifled through her room.
A clumsy suspect dropped a diamond pendant while fleeing the hotel
holdup on bicycles. A bystander found the flashy accessory in the street
and turned it into police hours after the robbery.
A police source told Agency France Presse a DNA sample recovered at the crime scene was linked to a prolific robber known to authorities.
The suspects can be held for at least 96 hours. In New York, Kardashian
is expected to identify the suspects in a lineup presented through a
video feed, according to a LCI report.
A spokesperson for Kardashian did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kardashian recalled the traumatic robbery on an upcoming episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”
She feared the armed men were going to kill her.
“They’re going to shoot me in the back — there’s no way out,” she
tearfully told her sisters in a clip expected to air in March. “It makes
me so upset to think about it.”
The robbery was one of two high-profile troubles to plague the Kardashian clan in 2016.
Kardashian’s rapper husband, Kanye West, was hospitalized on a
psychiatric hold in Los Angeles after nixing his Saint Pablo tour in
November.
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