Kim Kardashian is ‘ready to confront’ armed gang who carried out Paris robbery

KIM Kardashian is “ready to confront” the armed gang who held her at gunpoint and stole jewellery worth £7.5million, her legal team said yesterday.

They were speaking as the trial of nine men and a woman accused of robbing the reality TV star in Paris in 2016 entered its sixth day.

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A statement released by 44-year-old Kim’s French barristers read: “She wishes to confront those who attacked her.

“She intends to do so with dignity and courage.”

Kim, who is studying law in California, has stayed away from the beginning of the trial at the Paris Assizes, but will fly to the French capital next Tuesday.

It will give her a chance to look gang members in the face for the first time, as they were all wearing masks when she last saw them.

Their trial has been delayed by Covid and by a backlog of high profile cases in the French justice system.

Marceau Baum-Gertner - nicknamed Rough Diamond - died aged 72 just days before the trial was due to start.

One member Yunice Abbas, 71, is expected to apologise to Kardashian in court having already penned a memoir titled “I kidnapped Kim Kardashian”.

He fled on his bike, spilling the loot on the floor as he fell over in the rush.

Aomar Ait Khedache - known as Old Omar - has written a letter to Kim from jail apologising for the trauma he caused.

Most of the ageing defendants are now on bail but are expected to receive lengthy jail sentences if found guilty.

The trial is expected to end on May 23.

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