Kim Kardashian heist trial set to start in Paris with jury selection

PARIS — Prosecutors and defendants were set to begin selecting jurors Monday as French courts made the necessary preparations to hear witness testimonies in the trial of those accused of stealing jewelry worth $9 million at gunpoint from Kim Kardashian.

PARIS — Prosecutors and defendants were set to begin selecting jurors Monday as French courts made the necessary preparations to hear witness testimonies in the trial of those accused of stealing jewelry worth $9 million at gunpoint from Kim Kardashian.

It was the opening day of proceedings against 10 people charged in connection with the 2016 robbery, in which they allegedly held Kardashian, 44, at gunpoint and stole her jewelry while she was in Paris for the city's fashion week.

Kardashian was staying at a private apartment complex favored by visiting VIPs, when five of the accused arrived on bicycles and on foot, gained entry to the building and robbed the reality TV star turned business mogul. The other defendants are accused of related offenses, including planning and giving tipoffs about Kardashian’s whereabouts.

The group has been nicknamed “the grandpa robbers” in local media, owing to some of them being in their 60s and 70s. The case has taken so long to come to trial that one defendant died and another, aged 80, has had their case separated out from that of the other defendants due to their medical condition.

Kim Kardashian with her mother, Kris Jenner, on the day she was robbed in Paris on Oct. 2, 2016.Antoine Gyori / Corbis via Getty Images fileThose who are standing trial include Aomar Ait Khedache, 69, known as “Old Omar,” accused of being the plot’s mastermind; his son and alleged getaway driver, Harminy, 37; Didier “Blue Eyes” Dubreucq, 69; and the brother of Kardashian’s driver in Paris, Gary Madar, 35,  who is accused of providing the alleged gang members with information about Kardashian’s whereabouts. One of the accused is a woman, 78-year-old Christiane Glotin, who was allegedly an accomplice in planning the heist.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/kim-kardashian-heist-trial-paris-fashion-week-jewelry-gunpoint-rcna202408


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