Kim Kardashian goes to the courtroom and forgives one of the thieves who attacked and kidnapped it: “But this does not change my trauma and my life that has changed”

Surreal moment: Kim Kardashian is there. It arrives wrapped in a black dress designed by John Galliano, wearing acrobatic shoes. He even dared to wear sparkling jewels, a necklace that descends along his neck and a ring that dazzles. The queen of influencers is accompanied by the mother, Kris Jennerand from five bodyguards with earphones and tight jaws. Just before arriving at the defendants’ counter, an assistant system a lock of hair. At the same time, a few meters away, it arrives AOMARaccused of having attacked the star in the night between 2 and 3 October 2016. He is 69 years old, but shows fifteen more, and his arrival is announced by the noise of his stick. The meeting between two irreconcilable worlds was expected to be expected, The Californian billionaire against a gang of “elderly robbers”, recurrence that gravitate to the poor suburbs of Paris. Here for the first time these two worlds gathered.

Throughout the afternoon of Tuesday, Kim Kardashian, 44 years old and 356 million followers, came to “make his truth heard” on the night that “traumatized”. A rare and expected intervention, given that the influencer has returned only on rare occasions on this traumatic episode. “Paris is a place that I love very much,” he began. ‘I used to walk on the street even late at night. I felt safe in this city. I could walk, look at the windows, drink a hot chocolate. But that aggression changed everything. ‘

On the evening of October 2, Kim K. returns from a dinner organized by Azzedine Alaïa. His sister Kourtney He wants to continue the evening in the disco, but Kim hesitates. They all have to return to the United States the next day and the most famous of the Kardashian decides to remain quiet at the Hôtel de Pourtalès. He puts himself in bed in front of a documentary and five minutes before the end he hears the noises of steps that go up. “I called my sister but nobody replied,” he reminded the bar. The star is worried. He tries to contact the French police, he does not know the equivalent of 911, the emergency number in the United States, and therefore tries to call Pascal, his bodyguard. Before succeeding, two masked men, dressed as policemen, break into the room and snatch the blackberry. “I didn’t understand what was going on.”

“Do I have to run away or not?”

The two false policemen also keep another man firm. You recognize the hotel’s night guardian, do you know that English speaks and asks him: “What’s Happening? What’s Happening? ” The apparent calm of the Guardian La Torba. “I didn’t know if he was part of the group or not.” Then one of the two attackers becomes more authoritarian. Screams: «The ring, the ring” with a sharp accent. The 18.8 carat diamond is right there, resting on the bedside table, and a criminal takes possession of it. “Then they started fighting in French, but I didn’t understand.” The highest of the two begins to rummage between things in the bedroom. Find a jewelry box. “And he laughed. It was all excited ».

The two criminals lead her to a guest room where there is nothing. They bring her back to the corridor. “And that’s where I clearly saw the weapon”. The star feels it aimed at the back. “I said to myself: do I have to escape or not? But it was not an option. I understood that I had to do rather do everything they asked me. ” At this point, Kim Kardashian interrupts his story to dry a first tear. Even his mother, present in the Banco delle Civili, does the same.

Then it describes how it was linked, with hands tied with electrical cables. Remember to have been “hysterical” at that moment, imploring his kidnappers not to kill her. Then the youngest put them some adhesive tape on the mouth. “He told me” shhh “. “If you shut up, everything will be fine”. ” Then pull it on the edge of the leg bed. “I was naked under the night shirt and he pulled. He discovered the intimate parts. I started thinking that he would raped me.” On the contrary, the kidnapper closes her legs and binds them.

Metal tap

Throughout this time, the largest threatens the victim with a weapon. “I was sure he would shoot. And that I would die. I started praying for my family, my mother, my sisters and my best friends. Kourtney was about to go home. And he would find my body on the bed after I had been raped. He should have coexisted with that image impressed in his mind”.

But no, no gunshot. The small one instead grabs the victim by the feet, drags it to the ground to the bathroom, hesitates to put it in the bathtub and then leave it on the tiled floor. Then, for a few minutes, nothing. The two attackers disappeared while Kim tried to dissolve the ties around the hands with a metal tap. He succeeds and goes to look for Simone, his designer, downstairs.

Shortly before, Simone had preceded Kim K. to the court of the court. A friend of almost 30 years, taken as a stylist, explained this elegant 45 -year -old blonde. The night between 2 and 3 October 2016, he was sleeping in his bedroom, on the ground floor of the Duplex, when he was awakened by strange noises. “It was a sound that I had never heard of Kim. It was terrifying. He implored: “I have small children, let me live. Take what you want and let me live.”

Jump from the window

Without seeing anything of what was happening above, Simone approached the door to try to close it. But there was no lock. In the end he took refuge in a bathroom, whose door closed: “I hid in the shower.” For 10-15 minutes, which seemed to her an hour, he felt screams. “Those men who spoke to a very high voice”. And her friend, in panic. “He had a terrified voice.”

Despite the panic, the stylist still managed to warn the body guard of the Kardashian, Pascal, and Kourtney, both released in the disco. A few minutes of uncertainty follow, then they feel the steps that go down. “I thought it was my turn.” In the end calm returns. Kim shouted again, but this time he called his designer. “I was really frightened at the idea of ​​what my friend had just suffered,” Simone explained to the bar. ‘I thought about the worst. I thought they wanted to rape it or beat her ‘.

To hear the stylist, Kim would have come down from the stairs jumping, with his ankles still tied with adhesive tape. The stylist would take away the ties, before worrying: what if the attackers had returned? They thought for a moment to jump from the window, from the first floor, before hiding on the terrace, behind the bushes. Fortunately, Pascal has finally arrived. “We said that we could start breathing again.”

“He lost his freedom”

Almost nine years after the facts, Simone’s memories still seem intact. Remember the poor attention that the policemen paid to her, engaged with Kim Kardashian and with the first investigations. It was quickly listened to, around 6 in the morning, but its deposition, written on a sheet, is a few lines. Remember the return to the United States very well, a few hours later. «I spent all the flight to cry. The person sitting next to me on the plane had to think that I was crazy. ” He also says he has been traumatized for a long time by the episode. «After that, I no longer wanted to deal with celebrities. So I stopped working for a while and now I’m an interior architect ».

With shiny eyes, Simone above all recalls that in this story Kim Kardashian has not lost only 9 million euros in jewelry. «Afterwards he told me that that moment changed her life forever. Because he no longer has the same freedom. His lifestyle has completely changed. In terms of safety, it can no longer be alone. He lost his freedom. It is horrible ».

The queen of influencers has in fact explained that she is now living under the constant surveillance of four to six bodyguards, which she no longer shares with her sisters. “We also have a problem of trust” with its employees, so she prefers to no longer talk about “personal things” in the cars that borrows. He doesn’t even leave jewels in his home. “My jewels are not left in the same house as my children”. His way of publishing on social networks has also changed: “I can no longer post in real time. Public only after leaving the place. This also has an impact on my business ».

“A sun that illuminates me”

But Kim Kardashian is not just a formidable business woman. After the aggression, he also undertaken jurisprudence studies with the aim of becoming a lawyer and goes regularly to prison to “understand rehabilitation programs”. “I try to try empathy for prisoners. Everyone is entitled to a second possibility “says the star.

Last Tuesday he then tried to put his principles into practice. Moment of suspense in court, when the president David de Pas He read the letter of apologies written by Aomar to his victim in 2017. “Madam, is after seeing her in a television program and including the psychological damage that I have caused her that I decided to write to her, not to get any indulgence from her (…) I turn to her as a human being to tell her how much I am sorry for my gesture, how much she moved and touched me to see her in tears, I know that suffering that is experiencing ». At these words, Kim Kardashian breaks out again in tears. “He is very moving. This experience has changed my life, my family life. I appreciate this letter, of course, and forgive you for what happened ”. He fixes the gaze on that of his attacker, one of the two accused he confessed, then he resumes: ‘But this does not change my trauma and my life that has changed, and this forever’.

A few moments later, Aomar replies in writing, since the defendant, deaf and affected by tinnitus, can no longer speak. “This forgiveness is a ray of sunshine that illuminates me, thanks. For ten years, regret and remorse consume me, I will be eternally grateful “. One of the objectives of the criminal trial is to ease tensions. We hope that this, nine years after the facts, has at least allowed to achieve this goal.