Kim Kardashian is en route to Paris to testify in her upcoming robbery trial.
A source exclusively tells PEOPLE that The Kardashians star, 44, is eagerly awaiting her chance to testify against the suspects involved in 2016 Paris robbery.
“Kim’s a bit nervous, but she always said that she wanted to testify in person,” the source says. “This is her choice. She was terrified for her life during the robbery. She wants the people involved convicted.”
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On Monday, May 12, the SKIMS founder revealed she was traveling abroad with a post shared to her Instagram Stories. Alongside a photo of the view looking out from her private plane, Kardashian added an emoji of the French flag, indicating she was touching down in Paris.
In October 2016, armed thieves broke into Kardashian’s room at the No Address hotel in Paris, where they bound and gagged her before putting her in a bathtub. As they held her hostage, five masked men stole millions of dollars worth of jewelry from the reality star in the middle of the night, PEOPLE previously reported.
“They put plastic ties around her wrists, but she managed to squeeze her hands out of the wrist ties by wriggling her hands,” a source close to Kardashian told PEOPLE at the time.
After escaping, a second source told PEOPLE that Kardashian “screamed from the balcony” for help.
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Kardashian previously revealed that the robbers took two diamond Cartier bracelets, a gold and diamond Jacob necklace, Lorraine Schwartz diamond earrings, a gold Rolex and other items during the heist, according to French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. A $4 million ring gifted to her by then-husband Kanye West was also among the items stolen.
The stolen jewelry was estimated to be worth nearly $9 million and most of it was never recovered.
Ten people are expected to appear in court to face charges in connection with the heist, according to the New York Times, NBC News and ABC News. The trial for the suspects involved began Monday, April 28.
In a 2017 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians., the reality star opened up about the harrowing ordeal and recalled fearing for her life in a conversation with her sisters.
“They ask for money. I said I don’t have any money,” she said. “They dragged me out on to the hallway on top of the stairs. That’s when I saw the gun clear, like clear as day. I was kind of looking at the gun, looking down back at the stairs.”
“I was like; ‘I have a split second in my mind to make this quick decision,” she continued. “Am I going to run down the stairs and either be shot in the back? It makes me so upset to think about it. Either they’re going to shoot me in the back, or if I make it and they don’t, if the elevator does not open in time, or the stairs are locked, then like I’m f—–. There’s no way out.”
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Kardashian herself has said she believed the perpetrators tracked her via social media.
“I was Snapchatting that I was home and that everyone was going out,” she explained in the episode. “So I think they knew Pascal [her bodyguard] was out with Kourtney and that I was there by myself.”
