Investigation into the violence which was carried out on Kim in a raid that saw jewelries worth millions of dollars snatched from Kim Kardashian West is zeroing down and now focusing their inquiries on the very possibility the robbery was an “insider job” and have taken Kim’s chauffeur and his brother into custody.
Paris officials, speaking on condition of anonymity,where helpful and told the news service that the driver and his younger brother were among the 17 people taken into custody in relation with the jewelry heist.
The two brothers worked for the same company.
The 17 suspects picked up by French cops where all ranged in
the age 23 to 72, and included several well known criminals who investigators
have to other prior robberies and other crimes, according to a police document.
The reality-TV
personality earlier this month broke her
silence on the robbery in a teaser for the Kardashian family’s upcoming season,
where she was seen telling two of her sisters her very thoughts at the time of
the robbery: “They’re going to shoot me in the back. There’s no way out.”
The terrifying episode by a gang reported to have worn
police uniforms to rub a high class hotel with all the heavy security available
and later fled the scene on bicycles—was said to be the biggest robbery of any
individual in France for more than 20 years.
The gang where believed to have dispersed to different
corners of France in order to keep a low profile as a number of the suspects
who were believed to be “well-known to detectives for armed robbery” were
picked up at different locations across France. While most were grabbed in the
Paris region,Normandy and the Riviera.
The breakthrough came after Police investigators where said
to have discovered DNA samples at the luxury residence where Kardashian was
staying. The incident imediately went viral with Kim’s 50 million followers on Twitter and 90 million
on Instagram.
Kardashian spoke up about the robbery night in tears
recalling the incident to her two sisters Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian, in a
promo clip for the upcoming season of E!’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians,
which will premiere in March.
Kardashian returned to social media last week, posting
pictures of her family on Instagram and reacting to news of husband Kanye
West’s mental breakdown in November..
The star was all alone the night of the raid as her German
bodyguard, Pascal Duvier, was out at a club with her sisters.
