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‘I forgive you’: Kim Kardashian gives raw testimony at Paris robbery trial – National TenX News
Billionaire entrepreneur and reality television star Kim Kardashian testified in a packed Paris courthouse on Tuesday in the trial of the suspects accused of robbing her at gunpoint, taping her mouth, binding her hands and stealing millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry 9 years ago.
Kardashian, 44, told the jury she thought she was going to be sexually assaulted during the 2016 heist and that she was sure she would not survive the ordeal.
“I was certain that was the moment that he was going to rape me,” she told a Paris court Tuesday. “I absolutely did think I was going to die.”
Kim Kardashian arrives at the Palais de Justice on May 13, 2025, in Paris, France.
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Kim Kardashian recalls the incident
Kardashian, who was tearful at times, said she was getting ready for bed when she heard loud footsteps ascending the stairs to her hotel room, telling the court that at first she thought it was her sister Kourtney and a friend returning from a Paris Fashion Week event in the early hours of Oct. 3.
She recalled calling out to ask who was there before masked men entered the room.
“I obviously was very confused. I had to make sense of what was happening. I was just about to fall asleep, naked with a robe on,” she told the court.
“Honestly, a lot of terrorist attacks were happening in the world, and I thought it was some sort of terrorist attack, and I didn’t immediately understand it was for my jewelry.”
She said the suspects arrived at her hotel dressed as police officers and held the concierge hostage. He was dragged into her room, handcuffed, according to Kardashian.
One attacker began gesturing at her diamond ring.
“He said, ‘Ring! Ring!’ and he pointed to his hand,” she recalled.
Kardashian grabbed her phone to call the police, but didn’t know the French emergency number. She then tried to contact her sister and bodyguard, but was stopped by one of the masked assailants.
Kim Kardashian arrives at the Palais de Justice on May 13, 2025, in Paris, France.
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The men then threw her on the bed, zip-tied her hands and held a gun to her head, she testified.
“I have babies,” Kardashian said. “I have to make it home. They can take everything. I just have to make it home.”
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At that moment, Kardashian said she remembers worrying about what her sister Kourtney might have come home to.
“I thought about my sister, thought she would walk in and see me shot dead and have that memory in her forever,” Kardashian said.
The men then dragged her to the bathroom, she said, where they taped her mouth and told her she would not be harmed as long as she did not make any noise.
She recalled being handled aggressively by the suspects, but said they did not hit her.
“I was not hit. No, I was grabbed, and dragged into the other room, and thrown onto the floor, but wasn’t hit, no,” she told the court.
“[The gun] was pointed towards me to get me to go from room to room, and it was pointed toward me on the bed at the end.”
The last time Kardashian saw the men who police say robbed her, she was locked in the bathroom while the suspects stole more than US$6 million in jewelry.
Her testimony marked a long-awaited moment in a trial that has captivated France and the wider world for almost a decade, and reignited discussions about the price of fame as well as the risks of living in the public eye.
Kardashian is one of the most recognizable figures on the planet, a billionaire fashion and beauty brand entrepreneur, a reality television icon, a producer and a lawyer in the making, with a following of more than 350 million on Instagram alone.
But the robbery shed light on the dark sides of excessive exposure, and how fame can leave high-profile figures vulnerable to attacks like the one she survived.
Police believe the suspects watched Kardashian’s social media profiles to build a broader picture of her movements and used images she’d shared with time stamps and geotags to track her whereabouts in the lead-up to the incident.
Kardashian was joined by her mother, Kris Jenner, in the heavily guarded Parisian courtroom. Dressed in black with $1.5 million worth of diamonds draped around her neck — according to a press release her team sent to journalists at the trial, reports The Associated Press — her voice quivered as she thanked the French authorities for allowing her to “speak my truth.”
This court sketch made on May 13, 2025, in Paris shows U.S. celebrity Kim Kardashian (R2), next to co-accused Aomar Ait Khedache (R), testifying before the Assize Court for the trial over the 2016 robbery that saw her robbed of millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry at gunpoint.
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The accused and the aftermath
French prosecutors say the 12 suspects, who are between the ages of 60 and 70, were members of an old-school criminal ring.
Two assailants have admitted to being at the scene of the crime, and one claims he didn’t know who Kardashian was when the crime took place; another died before the trial, and a fourth was excused as a result of illness.
The group of criminals was dubbed “les papys braqueurs” — “the grandpa robbers” — by the French press, but Kardashian’s lawyers insist the men are far from a wholesome gaggle of senior citizens.
The suspects are facing charges of armed robbery, kidnapping and membership in a criminal gang, crimes in France that carry the possibility of life in prison.
After the men left the scene, Kardashian said she rubbed the tape binding her wrists against the bathroom sink to free her hands.
Her ankles still tied, she hopped downstairs to find her friend and stylist, Simone Harouche, who was staying in the room below.
Fearing the robbers could come back, Harouche and Kardashian fled to the balcony and hid in the bushes. While there, Kardashian phoned her mother.
Earlier in the trial, Harouche recalled hearing Kardashian scream from upstairs: “‘I need to live.’ That is what she kept on saying, ‘Take everything. I need to live’.”
Meanwhile, Harouche locked herself in a bathroom and texted Kardashian’s sister and bodyguard, writing, “Something is very wrong.”
Later, she heard Kardashian struggling down the stairs, her ankles still bound.
“She was beside herself,” Harouche said. “She just was screaming.”
Judge David De Pas asked Harouche whether she thought Kardashian invited the robbers by sharing images of herself on the internet adorned in expensive jewels — a line of questioning Harouche strongly rejected.
Kim Kardashian leaves the courthouse after testifying before the Assize Court for the trial over the 2016 robbery that saw her relieved of millions of dollars worth of jewelry at gunpoint in Paris, on May 13, 2025.
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“Just because a woman wears jewelry, that doesn’t make her a target,” she said. “That’s like saying that because a woman wears a short skirt that she deserves to be raped.”
Kardashian told the court that shortly after the Paris robbery, her Los Angeles home was broken into in what she believes was a copycat attack, adding that she can no longer sleep without guards and has between four and six at home at any given time.
“I started to get this phobia of going out,” Kardashian said. “This experience really changed everything for us.”
At the time of the Paris robbery, her bodyguard was staying in a different hotel.
“We assumed that if we were in a hotel, it was safe, it was secure,” Kardashian explained, adding that Paris, up until then, had always felt safe to her and that she would often walk the streets alone in the early hours of the morning to window shop or stop for a solo hot chocolate.
“It always felt really safe,” she said. “It was always a magical place.”
Kardashian received an apology letter from one of the suspects, and said she was grateful for the gesture.
“I do appreciate the letter, for sure. I forgive you for what has taken place, but it doesn’t change the feelings and the trauma and the fact that my life was forever changed, but I do appreciate the letter, thank you,” she concluded.
— With files from The Associated Press and Reuters
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Qatar has committed to “significant” investments for Canada’s major building projects, calling it a “new chapter” in bilateral relations.
Carney made the announcement Sunday following his meeting with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar.
The new measures will include the finalization of the Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement with Qatar, a deal that has seen years of stalled negotiations, Carney said.
“We are raising our relationship and our level of alignment by making friends with strategic partners,” Carney said. “To launch this new chapter in our relationship, I’m pleased to announce that Qatar has committed to make significant strategic investments in Canada’s nation-building projects.
“This capital will help the projects get built faster and supercharge our energy industries, while helping to create thousands of high-paying careers for Canadians.”
He also said the new agreement will help Canadian businesses to “more easily” expand operations in Qatar as well as attract investment from the country.
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According to a readout from the Prime Minister’s Office, air services between Canada and Qatar will also be expanded and a defence attache from Canada will be posted in the country.
According to the PMO, the two countries have agreed to launch negotiations on a new framework focused on military, security and defence matters, and expand investment opportunities on areas such as AI.
The PMO said the two leaders agreed to stay in touch and Carney noted Sunday he had invited the Emir to visit Canada later this year and attend the World Cup match between their two countries with him.
The plans with Qatar are Carney’s latest in a slew of agreements and travel to other countries to discuss trade deals since his election last year.
Asked about his ongoing efforts to meet with countries interested in trade, Carney told reporters that multilateral relationships are “being eroded.”
“The consequence of that is there is a reduction in freer trade, much more trade is tariff-based or otherwise restricted and there is virtually no, with all due respect to those who are trying, virtually no multilateral progress,” Carney said.
“Where there is progress, and where Canada and like-minded countries are looking to make progress, is through pluriality deals… which is multiple countries but not all countries.”
On Friday, Canada announced that 49,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) would soon be imported each year with a lowered 6.1 per cent tariff after Carney struck a deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Carney added on Sunday that Xi showed interest in expanding China’s trade relations with other countries, and that’s why Canada is establishing trade deals with other countries, such as Qatar.
“In this more uncertain and dangerous world, we’ve chosen to create greater stability, security and prosperity together,” Carney said.
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World leaders are raising alarm after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose sweeping tariffs on European allies in an effort to pressure Denmark into negotiations over Greenland.
The move is sparking protests across the Arctic and sharp rebukes from Europe and Canada.
On Saturday, thousands of people marched through snow and ice in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, chanting “Greenland is not for sale,” waving national flags.
Police described the demonstration as the largest they have ever seen in the city.
About 825 kilometres away, dozens of people rallied in Iqaluit, Nunavut, in a show of solidarity with Greenlanders.
“Greenland is owned by the Greenlandic people,” protesters chanted in Inuktut as they marched for an hour in freezing, windy conditions.
The protests came as Trump announced he would impose a 10 per cent import tax starting next month on goods from eight European countries.
These nations include Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland, because of their opposition to U.S. control of Greenland.
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The tariff would rise to 25 per cent on June 1 if no deal was reached for what Trump called the “Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”
The president suggested the tariffs were leveraged to force talks over Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark that Trump says is vital to U.S. national security.
French President Emmanuel Macron said France stands firmly behind Greenland’s sovereignty and rejected the use of trade threats.
“Tariff threats are unacceptable and have no place in this context,” Macron wrote on social media, adding that Europeans would respond “in a united and coordinated manner” if the measures are confirmed.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Greenland’s future is for Greenlanders and Denmark to decide.
“Applying tariffs on allies for pursuing the collective security of NATO allies is completely wrong,” Starmer said, adding the issue would be raised directly with the U.S. administration.
Bob Rae, former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, also chimed in on Trump’s announcement.
The tariff threat could mark a significant rupture between the U.S. and its NATO allies.
Greenland already hosts the U.S.-run Pituffik Space Base under a 1951 defence agreement with Denmark, supporting missile warning, missile defence and space surveillance for the U.S. and NATO.
“There is no sign of the Trump war of aggression against Greenland and Denmark letting up. It is not about ‘security’ any more than Venezuela was about ‘narco-terrorism.’ They are both about seizing control and plunder.”
He further added, “No country, including my own, Canada, is safe or secure.”
The tariff threat could mark a significant rupture between the U.S. and its NATO allies.
Trump is expected to face questions about the proposed tariffs and Greenland later this week.
He is scheduled to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, alongside several European leaders he has threatened with tariffs.
— With files from The Canadian Press
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Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Doha on Saturday as part of a push to attract foreign investment and deepen Canada’s economic partnerships beyond its traditional allies.
Carney’s visit comes on the heels of his visit to China and follows the recent presentation of a new federal investment budget aimed at positioning Canada as a stable, attractive destination for global capital.
In a news conference on Saturday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Canada is working to broaden its economic relationships as global trade patterns shift.
Qatar is viewed by Ottawa as a strategic partner, with officials pointing to the country’s significant investment capacity and growing influence on the global stage.
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“We need to reduce our dependence and increase our self-reliance to find a strategic path forward,” Champagne said.
“Engaging with the Middle East and China is necessary for Canada, just like our European partners have done,” Champagne added. “We buy more from the U.S.A. than anywhere else, but the trading climate right now is different.”
The conference highlighted Canada’s industrial capacity and trade advantages as key selling points for potential investors.
Champagne also said international engagement is critical as Canada works to raise its profile among global investors.
“We are one of the G7s with very big industries. We build cars, planes, ships, we have an abundance of energy, and we are the only one with free trade with all G7,” Champagne said. “With the way the world is changing, you better diversify, supply chain is changing and we need to adapt.”
Prime Minister Carney is expected to meet with senior Qatari officials, including Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, as well as representatives of the Qatar Investment Authority.
His office says the talks will focus on expanding trade access and forging partnerships in artificial intelligence, infrastructure, energy and defence.
The visit comes amid heightened geopolitical tensions in the region, though officials say the schedule remains unchanged.
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