According to recent reports, five men attacked reality TV star, Kim Kardashian West, at gunpoint and robbed her of her jewels worth €10m in the French capital, Paris. The attack was carried out by five men, masked and disguised as police officers, who forced their way inside the upscale Hôtel de Pourtalès on Monday morning.
Kardashian-West was in Paris for the fashion week when the attack took place. The robbers tied the reality TV star and locked her in her luxury apartment's bathroom as they carried out the loot at 3 AM, soon after her return from the dinner party following the event.
While the famous star was not hurt, she was held at gunpoint by the men, leaving her "badly shaken but physically unharmed," said her publicist. Soon after her statement, the Kardashian West flew out of Paris, back to US, in a private jet.
The robbers not only took Kardashian West's €4m 15-carat diamond ring, gifted to her by her rapper husband, Kanye West, but also two smartphones. The robbers reportedly fled on their bicycles after the attack and robbery. The couple's children, North, three, and Saint, nine-months-old, were not with their mother in the room when the attack happened.
Soon after the attack on American reality TV celebrity, the police authorities in Paris began a manhunt, trying to isolate the robbers. The city that is already struggling with dropping tourism, following several terrorist attack last year, has taken a huge hit with high profile robbery incident.
With the report of burglary, political parties are in a row, debating over the city's safety. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, leader of center-right opposition party Les Républicains, admonished the attack as the city's "lack of reaction to deal with new threats".
Responding to Kosciusko-Morizet's concerned remarks, Anne Hidalgo Socialist mayor of Paris assures the people that while they do not condone what happened with Kardashian West and hope that the perpetrators are arrested soon, the safety of public places will not be affected by the incident.
