Kim Kardashian trial live: Star to confront Paris 'grandpa gang' suspects accused of tying her up at gunpoint in $10 million jewellery heist

Kardashian pictured wearing her engagement ring in Paris days before raid

Masked men walked away with millions of dollars’ worth of jewels in what was described by the French media as the ‘heist of the century’.

At the centrepiece was an 18.8-carat diamond ring given to Kardashian by her then-husband, rapper Kanye West. The jewel was valued at 3.5 million euros ($3.9 million).

Alongside the ring, a yellow gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, seven Cartier and Hermès bracelets, and three gold-and-diamond grills were also taken.

The total estimated value of the raid was estimated at around $10 million.

One of the robbers, Pierre ‘Big Pierrot’ Bouianere, 72, is believed to have dropped one platinum cross adorned with diamonds that was found the next morning.

The item was the only piece returned to Kardashian after it was handed in at a nearby police station.

Kim Kardiashan with her then husband Kanye West in 2015

Today’s trial dates back to the audacious early hours raid in October 2016 during Paris Fashion Week when Kim Kardashian was at the height of celebrity and married to rap superstar Kanye West.

Ms Kardashian, then 35, was alone in the penthouse apartment of her £13,500-a-night hotel, dozing on the bed in a silk night gown, when two men disguised as policemen burst into the room and put a gun to her head.

The celebrity was bound and gagged, ‘like a sausage’ and dumped in the bath of her ensuite bathroom while robbers spent 49 minutes snatching millions of pounds worth of gems and watches including her 18.88 carat diamond engagement ring.

As they fled, one robber dropped a platinum cross adorned with diamonds that was found the next morning.

Visibly traumatised Kim Kardashian fled the country by private jet after giving a brief statement to French detectives and was consoled by husband Kanye West who halted a concert, telling fans he had a ‘family emergency’.

Ms Kardashian has been denied justice for years, with delays on bringing the case to court blamed on the priority of high-profile terrorist trials.

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The trial is being heard at the Palais de Justice

A new podcast has launched, part of the Mail’s award-winning ‘The Trial’ series, which looks at the elderly masterminds who stand accused of enacting the 2016 robbery of Kim Kardashian in her Paris hotel room.

Hosted by the Mail’s acclaimed crime correspondent Caroline Cheetham and reporter in Paris Nick Fagge, the first episode of this new series lays the groundwork for the long-awaited trial of 10 suspects, dubbed the ‘grandpa gang’ by French media.

We’re expecting Kim Kardashian to testify in Paris at around 2pm local time (1pm UK time).

Before she gives evidence, we’re expecting to hear from her stylist Simone Harouche.

Harouche, a friend of Kardashian who has known her since she was 11, was staying in Paris at the time of the raid but on a different floor.

She is said to have locked herself in a bathroom and called Kardashian’s bodyguard Pascal Duvier, who was at a nightclub with Kim’s sisters Kourtney and Kendall.

Hello and welcome to MailOnline’s live coverage as Kim Kardashian testifies in a Paris court against the suspected thieves who allegedly targeted her in a terrifying jewellery heist in the French capital.

Nine years ago, Kardashian was tied-up, gagged and locked in a bathroom inside a luxury hotel by a group of thieves who had disguised themselves as police officers.

She was allegedly targeted by criminals after showing off her jewellery on social media.

The American businesswoman and reality TV star later fled the country by private jet after speaking to French detectives.

In previous years, she has told how the raid left her afraid to be alone and that she thought she would be killed by the robbers, but more recently that she is ready to face her assailants.

Stick with us as we bring you the latest from Kardashian’s appearance in the courtroom with Nick Fagge reporting from the Paris criminal court and Jamie Bullen in London.