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The Parisian underworld gang alleged to have robbed Kim Kardashian at gunpoint are finally set to go on trial almost a decade after the $10 million heist that stunned the world.

And ahead of the long-awaited trial, a MailOnline investigation has pieced together the fullest picture yet of what happened the night masked gunmen burst into the star’s £12,000-a-night penthouse where she was naked except for a bathrobe.

Kardashian was bound, gagged and locked in a bathroom, before the robbers made off with her lavish jewellery collection, including a $4million engagement ring from Kanye West.

Using detailed police and prosecution documents as well as the accounts of some who admit participating in the raid, we can today reconstruct exactly how the Hollywood-style heist was pulled off.

All the dozen defendants accused – who have been dubbed ‘Kardashian’s Twelve’ after the Oceans heist film series starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt – are currently at liberty having been released from their high-security remand cells prior to their trial.

At the centre of the entire case is one Aomar Aït Khedache, a self-confessed career criminal.

Now 69, Old Omar, as he is affectionately known by French crime reporters, is hard of hearing, short-sighted and suffering from an acute heart condition – but he is far from shy about his involvement in the heist, which took place in the early hours of October 3rd 2016, describing it as the most memorable of his life.

Indeed, Old Omar freely admits that he was the leader of the gang that subjected the American reality TV star to an ordeal said to still haunt her.

And he is not alone in admitting it: one his key lieutenants, Yunice Abbas, now 72, has even written a book unambiguously entitled, I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian.

The Parisian underworld gang alleged to have robbed Kim Kardashian at gunpoint are finally set to go on trial almost a decade after the $10 million heist that stunned the world

A french police car is seen outside Kim Kardashian’s Luxury Apartment after being robbed at gunpoint by masked men during Paris Fashion Week

Yet, it will not be until the end of next month at the earliest that Aït Khedache, Abbas and the other ten accused will finally appear in the dock at the Paris Assizes, accused of ‘armed robbery in an organised gang’, ‘kidnap’ and ‘criminal conspiracy’.

Despite the levity of some involved these are hugely serious charges which could well see the older defendants locked up for the rest of their lives But delays have been constant throughout the nine years so no one will be surprised if the April date slips.

Officers from the elite Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) of the Paris Judicial Police are particularly angry about this, having caught all of the alleged gang in simultaneous raids back as long ago in January 2017.

The detectives were convinced that justice would be swift and decisive, but timetabling problems caused by high-profile terrorist trials caused backlogs.

There were also fears that publicity because of the Kardashian connection process would destroy the upmarket Paris tourism industry at a time of prestige five-star events, right up until last summer’s Olympics.

So nine years on, most of the key defendants are also old and sick, meaning that they were all freed from high-security remand cells where they were originally expected to remain until trial.

Frustrated by the continuous adjournments, investigators have meanwhile provided an extraordinary account of the raid to MailOnline.

Leaks include a neatly typed document listing Ms Kardashian’s married name before her 2022 divorce, reading, VICTIM: Ms. Kimberly Kardashian-West (damage of $10,000,000).

Kardashian was bound, gagged and locked in a bathroom, before the robbers made off with her lavish jewellery collection, including a $4million engagement ring from Kanye West (above)

Officers from the elite Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) (pictured) of the Paris Judicial Police are particularly angry about this, having caught all of the alleged gang in simultaneous raids back as long ago in January 2017

Inside the Kim Kardashian Paris heist crime scene: Chilling images emerge showing a gag used to silence the star and ripped tape used to bind her

Pictures of gaffer tape used to gag Kim and Serflex cable ties used to bind her

The police dossier shows how a combination of DNA and CCTV analysis, phone taps and geolocation, and dogged determination by detectives including the physical tailing of suspects, led to the smashing of Omar & Co within two months of their Hollywood-style heist.

The saga began back in the summer of 2016, when Old Omar got a tip that a ‘big American star was coming to town’ and that she was showing off her fabulous wealth on Instagram.

This was a time when old school criminals were abandoning traditional heists for so-called sauccissons – ‘sausage raids’ which involve following rich people into their homes, ‘wrapping them up like sausages’ and then forcing them at gunpoint to say where they kept their valuables, before stealing them.

According to prosecutors, the Kardashian tip came from Florus Héroui, who ran a bar in Le Marais.

The central Paris district has always been a hotbed of professional criminals, but is now also populated by wealthy creatives, including actors and fashionistas.

Héroui is said to have got precise information about Ms Kardashian’s movements during Paris Fashion Week from Gary Madar, a VIP greeter who regularly met stars as they arrived at Paris Le Bourget airport by private jet.

Crucially, Madar was trusted and liked by Ms Kardashian, and had close family links to the car company she always used when in France – and they were photographed together many times.

Old Omar was fleeing justice at the time, having been arrested for his alleged involvement in a drugs racket, and was relying on his petite blonde mistress, Christiane Glotin, for safe houses to stay in.

Héroui is said to have got precise information about Ms Kardashian’s movements during Paris Fashion Week from Gary Madar (above), a VIP greeter who regularly met stars as they arrived at Paris Le Bourget airport by private jet

Bodyguard Pascal Duvier, Gary Madar and Kourtney Kardashian are seen at Charles-de-Gaulle airport on September 29, 2016 in Paris

A general view of Kim Kardashian’s luxury apartment Hotel de Pourtales on Rue Tronchet in the 8th arrondissement, where she was robbed at gunpoint by masked men