L'Hotel de Pourtales, rue Tronchet in Paris, where Kim Kardashian was robbed in 2016. - NORDSTRAND / SIPA

The prosecution requested the return to the assizes of eleven people suspected of being involved in the spectacular robbery, in October 2016 in Paris, of Kim Kardashian, whose jewelry has never been found.

It is now up to the examining magistrates to decide whether or not to refer all these suspects, including the five alleged robbers, to the Paris Assize Court for a trial which could not be held before 2021.

The biggest robbery in the last twenty years

With a booty of around 9 million euros, the group, described by the police as an old-fashioned gang of crooks, is suspected of having made the biggest robbery at the expense of an individual in the last twenty years in France.

On the night of October 2 to 3, 2016, the American star, then aged 36, was robbed by five men in a discreet luxury hotel residence in Paris, where she came to attend Fashion Week. Two of the thieves had threatened her with a weapon on the temple, before tying her up, gagging her, and then locked her in the bathroom. The robbers had taken several diamond and gold jewels, including one 18.88 carat stone, valued at nearly four million euros.

"Omar the old" would have melted the jewelry

Their presumed chief, Aomar Aït Khedache, known as "Omar the old man", affirmed to the investigators to have entrusted the diamond to a person whose identity he has not revealed and to have melted the gold jewelry.

The Paris public prosecutor's office requests that these five alleged robbers, now free under judicial supervision, be tried in particular for "organized robbery with a weapon", "kidnapping" and "criminal association", most often in recidivism, according to the judicial source. .

"Grated nose" suspected of being a receiver 

The prosecution also requests a trial for Marceau Baum-Gartner, alias "Grated nose", suspected of being the receiver of stolen goods, having made eight trips in two months to Antwerp, the jewelery capital, including twice with '"Omar the Old".

The threat of a trial is also becoming clearer for three close to "Omar the Old": his son, suspected of having played the role of driver, his partner and one of his friends both accused of having participated in the coup organization. The father of one of the robbers is at risk of being tried alongside them for illegal possession of weapons, and the last two indicted for providing information to the gang.

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