A thief who robbed Kim Kardashian in 2016 said he didn’t feel guilty about the robbery. “Because she was throwing the money away, I was there to pick it up,” he said in an interview with Vice News. Kardashian has said she feared for her life when she was robbed at gunpoint in a Paris hotel room. Loading Something is loading.
One of the thieves involved in Kim Kardashian’s Paris hotel room robbery in 2016 said he felt no guilt over the incident that traumatized the reality star.
In 2016, masked thieves broke into Kardashian’s room at the Hôtel de Pourtalès during Paris Fashion Week, where they tied her up and taped her mouth and eyes shut while stealing nearly $11 million worth of jewelry. gun point
The reality star opened up about the harrowing experience in a 2020 interview with David Letterman, describing the incident as “seven or eight minutes of torture” because she feared she would be raped or killed.
In an interview with Vice News published on Saturday, Yunis Abbas, one of 12 men arrested and charged in connection with the 2016 robbery, said that while he had “no doubt” Kardashian would be traumatized by the incident, he wasn’t sure. I felt guilty about the robbery.
“They should be a little less flashy for people who can’t afford it,” he said. “For some people, it’s provocative.”
Abbas told Vice News that before the heist he didn’t know much about Kardashian, but he did know about her then-husband, Kanye West. She said that she further investigated the reality star online to determine how wealthy she was and what valuable possessions she had.
“I saw one of her shows where she threw her diamond in the pool, on that episode of ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians,'” she said. “I thought, ‘She has a lot of money. This lady doesn’t care at all.'”
He added: “Because she was throwing the money away, I was there to pick it up and that was it. Guilty? No, I don’t care. I don’t care.”
He described how he and the other men involved in the robbery planned the heist, saying they entered the hotel through an open door on the side of the building and “took control of the concierge.”
“We dominated it, we tied it down,” Abbas said. “Then we looked for the keys to the room he stayed in.”
“I stayed down,” he added. “But two of my colleagues went upstairs with the concierge to go to Mrs. Kardashian’s room, then they collected the jewelry. [and] went downstairs.”
Abbas told Vice that they were able to escape after Kardashian’s assistant at the time called the US emergency line instead of France.
Anna Wintour, Kim Kardashian and North West at the Gaultier Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week show.
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Since the incident, Kardashian said she had changed her social media habits and no longer posted photos in real time to protect her privacy.
“I could take a picture, save it, post it when I’m leaving the place or when I’m in a different place, because I don’t think it worked as well for me when I was posting every last detail,” Kardashian said. she told her in a 2017 interview on “The View.” “I have learned from the experience.”
She told Letterman in 2020 that she was afraid to sleep after the robbery “unless there are half a dozen security guards at my house.”
Kardashian has also said that the traumatic experience made her less materialistic.
“I just don’t care about that stuff anymore,” she told Ellen DeGeneres in 2017. “I really don’t.”
Source: www.insider.com