Police Arrest 16 People Over Kim Kardashian’s Robbery In Paris

MEP: A gang of veteran armed robbers suspected of stealing millions of pounds worth of jewellery from Kim Kardashian has been arrested by French police in Paris, officials said Monday.

The suspects, a number of them reportedly well known to detectives for armed robbery, were picked up in coordinated early morning raids, most of them in the Paris region, but also in Normandy and the French Riviera.

One of the suspects is aged 72, police are reported to have confirmed.

Armed masked men robbed the 36-year-old star of €9 million (£7.8m) worth of jewellery – including her 20-carat engagement ring – after tying her up in her Paris apartment early on October 3.

After three months of checks, it was finally found to correspond to a well-known criminal who had been involved in numerous armed robberies.

Kardashian West, had a gun pointed at her and was tied up and left in the bath after several masked men with police markings on their jackets burst into her room at a private hotel in Paris’ exclusive 8th arrondissement on the night of 2-3 October.