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Kardashian jewel heist: ‘Grandpa robber’ partly driven by taste for easy money, court hears

Kim Kardashian West attending a fashion event
Kim Kardashian West attending a Fashion Week event at Hotel Ritz in Paris in September 2016. Photograph: Jacopo Raule/Getty Images

A retired restaurant owner alleged to have been the ringleader of an armed robbery of American reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris, has told a court he was in part driven by a taste for easy money.

Aomar Aït Khedache, 68, known as “Old Omar”, has admitted to police that he took part in the robbery in which Kardashian was tied up and held hostage at gunpoint in her Paris hotel bedroom during Paris fashion week in 2016. But he has denied the prosecution’s accusation that he was the organiser or ringleader of the jewel heist in the early hours of 3 October 2016, which was the biggest robbery of an individual in France in 20 years.

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