According to published reports, sixteen people were arrested on Monday (Jan 9) in France on suspicion of involvement in the robbery of Kim Kardashian during Paris Fashion Week in October, French officials said.
Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, did not identify the people who had been detained and could not confirm if the people who carried out the robbery were among them. She said the oldest of those arrested was 72 and that several of the others were in their 40s, 50s and 60s, which suggested that they were part of an “experienced” group.
In the early hours of Oct. 3, five men wearing balaclavas burst into the hotel room where Kim was staying, tied her up and robbed her at gunpoint of jewelry worth at least $9 million. The assailants, who also took cellphones and a wallet, fled on foot and on bicycles.
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