Police Arrest 16 Suspects in Kim Kardashian West Robbery
Le Monde also reports that the five alleged robbers who disguised themselves as policemen are part of the 17 suspects who were arrested Monday morning in different locations around Paris and other surrounding cities.
French police said that traces of DNA left at the scene led to the arrests.
On July 4, 1993, cash and jewellery worth an estimated €8.5 million in today’s currency was stolen from MGM shareholder Marvin Davis and his wife on a road near Antibes, on the French Riviera.
Immediately after the robbery, a spokeswoman for Kardashian West said she was “badly shaken but physically unharmed”, as The Two-Way noted at the time.
“They’re going to shoot me in the back”, Kardashian West says to her sisters Kourtney and Khloé in the episode preview. “There’s no way out”.
Kardashian, 36, was robbed at gunpoint by a group of men who infiltrated Hôtel de Pourtalès in October.
Kardashian’s French lawyer Jean Veil said the news of arrests was “a great satisfaction”.
Summary: A French judge may fly to the United States in order to interview Kim Kardashian about her Paris robbery.
And one person in custody was a chauffeur that Kardashian used during family visits to Paris and would have been the last to have told of the star’s evening plans.
Meanwhile a gang of “veteran criminals” have been arrested in connection with the armed robbery, and were pictured arriving at a Paris police station for questioning on Monday. Poignant described the three-month investigation as “quite short” for this sort of operation. A source close to her told E!
She recently started promoting the next season of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”, which features discussions about the scary ordeal.
Kim had since then, reduced her social media presence to a bare minimum as opposed to the flood of luxury-reeking pictures she previously posted.
The star added: “It makes me so upset to think about it”.