A leaked copy of Kim Kardashian’s police statement – outlining how she was threatened at gunpoint when she refused to hand over a ring worth millions – has emerged publicly.
Kardashian told police one of the armed robbers was wearing a jacket bearing a police insignia during the raid, which netted jewellery worth nine million euros.
A French newspaper has published Kim Kardashian's testimony to police of how a robber threatened her at gunpoint when she refused to hand over a ring worth millions of dollars.
In the account of the Paris robbery in October she described how she was bound and gagged and said one of the gang was wearing a jacket emblazoned with police insignia.
Her statement to investigators was reported on Monday by French newspaper the Journal du Dimanche.
Kardashian, 36, said she heard noises at the door after returning from dinner after midnight. Her bodyguard was not at the apartment as he was guarding her sister Kourtney at a nightclub.
"I saw through the sliding door two people coming," Kardashian said in comments translated from the newspaper's French account, adding that one of the men was wearing "a jacket with 'police' written on it".
"He asked me with a strong French accent where my ring was. It was on the bedside table. [But] I replied that I didn't know and then he pulled out a gun and I showed him the ring," she told police, adding it was worth US$4 million.
Kardashian said the men tied her up with plastic cables and adhesive tape and carried her to a bathroom and placed her in the tub.
Once the robbers had left, Kardashian managed to free herself. She told police she could tell the men were "kind of inexperienced in the way they tied me up".
The gang’s haul included also took a box containing jewellery including two Cartier diamond bracelets, a diamond-studded necklace, a yellow gold Rolex watch and a diamond-encrusted cross.
Police made arrests in Paris and the south of France last week and 10 suspects have been charged, including the alleged ringleaders.
Investigators say the gang's key members were Aomar Ait Khedache and Didier Dubreucq, men in their 60s with long criminal pasts.
Khedache's lawyer Jean-Yves Lienard said the gang were "completely amateurish".
His own client left traces of his DNA on the plastic cable and the tape they used to tie up Kardashian.
Khedache "has admitted taking part in the robbery but has refused to speak about any accomplices and denies he was the mastermind", Lienard said.
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