Kim Kardashian was in Paris on Tuesday, testifying to the 2016 Paris flight Jewelry that changed her life. She told the court that she Said a silent prayer for her sister, her best friend, her family, as a masked man pulled her towards him. The intruders, she said, Zip tied her hands and collaborated her mouth while she was wearing a robe. She says she thought she would not survive.

“I was sure it was the moment when he was going to rape me,” she told a Paris court on Tuesday. “I absolutely thought I was going to die.”

Before his emotional testimony, Kim Kardashian entered the courthouse with her mother, Kris Jenner, in a trailer. She was dressed in a black suit, with a diamond bling on her neck, ears and hands. According to The Associated PressHis collar alone, from Samer Halimeh to New York, is worth 1.5 million dollars.

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Kim Kardashian remembers the night of jewelry robbery

The founder of Skims testified that she was preparing for the bed when she heard the stairs trampled. At the beginning, she thought it was her sister Kourtney Kardashian and a friend who was returning from an evening at the Paris Fashion Week. She said that masked men stormed her room after calling, “Good morning? Good morning? Who is it?” She described how the attackers arrived at her hotel disguised as police. They had dragged the concierge upstairs to the handcuffs. “I thought it was a kind of terrorist attack”, “ She said. An attacker asked for his diamond return worth $ 4 million on the bedside table. “He said:” Ronnerie! Ring! “And he pointed his hand,” Recalls Kardashian.

Kim caught his phone in the middle of the break -in but did not know the French emergency number. When she tried to call her sister and her bodyguard, a masked man arrested her. Then the men threw him on the bed, pulled hands and pressed him a pistol. At that time, Kim apparently begged her life.

“I have babies,” said Kardashian on the stand. “I have to go home. They can take everything. I just have to go home. “

Instead of letting her go, the masked men transported her to the bathroom. A man stuck his mouth and someone told her that she would be fine if she was silent. They locked it in the marble bathroom while flying more than $ 6 million in jewelry by police. It was the last time that she saw the masked men, except to sit in the witnesses box almost 10 years later.

After the men fled his hotel room, Kim Kardashian rubbed the adhesive tape against the bathroom sink to release his hands. She jumped down, always linked, to find her friend and stylist, Simone Harouche. She and Simone then went to the balcony and hid in the bushes, fearing that the thieves would come back. Lying there, Kardashian called his mother, Kris Jenner.

In a trembling voice, AP reports that she thanked the French police for allowing her to “share [her] truth.”

“It’s my closure,” said Kardashian. “It’s me I put that, let’s hope it, to rest.”

A friend says Kim was “out of her” during the flight

Simone Harouche also testified in the trial and recalled Kim shouting upstairs: “I need to live. This is what she continued to say: “Take everything. Harouche locked himself in a bathroom and sent a text to the sister and the Kardashian bodyguard: “Something wrong.” She described how her friend was “Next to her … She was just shouting.”

Kim Kardashian shares the phobia she developed after flight

Kimmy told court that his house in Los Angeles was stolen shortly after the flight of Paris in what seemed to be a copy attack. Without security agents, she said, “I can’t even sleep at night.” She now keeps between four and six guards at home.

“I started getting this phobia to go out,” said Kim Kardashian. “This experience has really changed everything for us.”

At the time of the 2016 flight, she said, her bodyguard stayed in a separate hotel: “We assumed that if we were in a hotel, it was certain, it was certain.” She said that Paris had formerly been a sanctuary, a place where she was walking at 3 or 4 in the morning, making window weighing, sometimes stopping for hot chocolate. He “Always safe,” She said. “It was always a magical place.”

Who committed the flight?

French prosecutors say that the attackers – most of them in the sixties and the 1970s – were part of a experienced criminal cycle. Two accused admitted to be on the scene. It is claimed that he did not know who she was.

Twelve suspects were originally charged. One has died since. Another has been apologized due to an illness. The French press nicknamed them the robberies – “The thieves of grandfather” – but the prosecutors insist that they were not harmless retirees.

They are faced with accusations, including an armed robbery, a kidnapping and members in a criminal gang, offenses that have the perpetuity imprisonment. If they are convicted, they could be in life for life. The trial should end on May 23.

Thieves used digital breadcrumbs to find Kim

At the time of the flight, Kardashian was one of the most recognized women. She had mastered a new type of celebrity – a distribution in real time, post by post, to millions of followers. However, in the early hours of October 3, 2016, this visibility became a weapon against it. Investigators believe that the attackers followed Kardashian’s digital breadcrumbs – images, horodatages, geotags – and abused them with old -fashioned criminal methods.

Judge David de Pas When asked if Kardashian had made a target by publishing images of herself with “great jewelry”. His friend, Simone Harouche, rejected the premise.

“Just because a woman wears jewelry, it doesn’t make her a target,” said Simone. “That’s like saying this because a woman wears a short skirt that she deserves to be raped.”

The staff of the Associated Press Thomas Adamson, John Leicester and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny contributed to this report.