Stylist Simone Harouche has informed a courtroom that on the night time Kim Kardashian was robbed in Paris she was woken by the US star’s screams of terror and feared she had been “raped or violated”.
Sporting a black jacket and ponderous gold necklace, Ms Harouche, 45, spoke to Decide David de Pas within the Voltaire room of Paris’s felony courtroom by way of an interpreter, describing the theft that passed off within the French capital practically a decade in the past.
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The trial is going down in Paris’s Palais de Justice. Pic: Reuters
Ms Harouche, who says she has labored for Kardashian for a few years and has been associates along with her from childhood, informed the courtroom she was woken by “a sound I had never heard from Kim… It was terror”.
Sleeping in a separate condo, on the following flooring down from Kardashian’s, she went on: “What I heard specifically was [Kim saying], ‘I have babies and I need to live – that is what she kept saying… Take everything. I need to live'”.
She informed the decide: “When I realised something terrible was going on upstairs and I realised it was not friends [in Kim’s room] I started looking for my telephone and I started looking for something to help save mine and Kim’s life.”
She went on to lock herself in her toilet and conceal in her bathe, the place she referred to as Kardashian’s sister Kourtney and texted her safety guard, Pascal Duvier, telling them, “Something is very wrong… Kim is upstairs with men and we need help.”
She says minutes later, Kardashian entered her room, explaining: “To see my friend with her feet taped and a very light robe with nothing under, and all messed up and pulled, I thought she could have been raped or very violated.”
She mentioned Kardashian was extremely emotional, including: “She was beside herself, I’ve never seen her like that before. She was screaming, ‘We need to get out, what do we do if they come back? We need to jump from the first floor, we need to get out.'”
Describing Kardashian as “not in her body”, she mentioned she thinks the star “was still in trauma” whereas they waited for assist after the theft, and went on to explain the scene following the incident as “very chaotic”.
In a while Tuesday, Kardashian herself will face 10 defendants who it’s alleged pulled off probably the most audacious movie star heists in trendy French historical past within the early hours of three October 2016.
The trial is now getting into its third week.
Within the French capital for Paris Trend Week, Kardashian has beforehand mentioned she was dwelling alone within the early hours of three October, whereas her sister Kourtney and entourage – together with her safety guard – went out clubbing.
It is alleged that 5 masked males posing as cops stormed the residence, with two getting into Kardashian’s room and robbing her at gunpoint.
She says she was then certain and gagged with tape and cable ties and left within the bathtub.
Police say the lads escaped on bicycles, with round $9m of jewelry, together with a $4m engagement ring from Kardashian’s then-husband Kanye West.
A lot of the jewelry was by no means recovered.
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Kardashian on the Siran Presentation on the day of the theft. Pic: Matteo Prandoni/BFA/Shutterstock
Forward of her in-person look, Kardashian’s attorneys mentioned she was able to “confront” her Paris attackers and meant to take action “with dignity and courage”.
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