He is a key witness of the evening of braquage de Kim Kardashian Nine years ago. But in front of the Paris Assize Court this Wednesday, May 7, Mohamed Q., the driver, in a rush and in disaster with the bodyguard at the hotel of the American star, remembers anything.
The man in jeans and black sweatshirts at the helm sets the tone direct: “I don’t have much to tell you, I don’t even know why I’m here”. “It is serious”, it is “important”, “make a little effort of memory”, the accused face “heavy sorrows”, tries to raise awareness several times President David in the face of this not very engaging witness or engaged in his deposition.
On the evening of October 2, 2016, he was called to the rescue by the usual driver company who manages the Kardashian family. Kim, who came for the Fashion Weekand his sister Kourtney, go out a lot, any time. The principal driver is exhausted and needs a relay for this night. I started late, I was with one of Kim Kardashian’s sisters, “said the witness at the helm. Which ? “I don’t know, they all look alike.”
“I was in the opposite direction on the Champs-Élysées”
The president wanted a “spontaneous” story of his memory of the evening, he will have to tear the answers one by one. In the memory of Mohamed Q., he placed that evening, around 2 am Kourtney Kardashian and the family’s bodyguard at the Arc nightclub. Tired by having planned to leave early the next morning in the United States, Kim Kardashian stayed in his room of the discreet luxury hotel “No Address”, rue Tronchet.
“A quarter of an hour later,” he sees the bodyguard leaving the nightclub while running. “He said to me: Roll quickly towards the hotel, calls the police, a problem is happening. He speaks English … Call the police Explains the witness. “Is that what you do?” Asks the president to the witness. “I even remember any more if I managed to have them, in addition I was in the opposite direction on the Champs-Élysées”. “Ah yes anyway …”, replies the president.
Once at the hotel, the bodyguard rushes inside but left on the sidewalk, says the witness. He will understand “vaguely” that there was robbery, and the confinement of Kim Kardashian In his hotel room but no more, he assures the president who looks at him round eyes. Because if it has been nine years since the Queen of Influencers has shised nine million euros in jewelry, the magistrate estimates that such an event is not forgotten.
“Ah no but me life continues”
He therefore rereads the witness the deposition he had made before the police in the aftermath of the facts, in which he detailed how he had returned to the hotel with the bodyguard, had opened the door of a staircase and discovered the receptionist tied up and handcuffed. “I don’t remember,” said the witness at the helm, not destabilized for a penny.
“Do you not remember having seen a man tied up at the mansion?” Asked the president, raising his tone. “I imagine that in your life you don’t see a tied man every day?” [… ]Were you not marked this story at all? ». “Ah no frankly not at all,” replied the witness. “Ah no, but I continue life, in addition I did not earn money that night, I was not paid finally,” he said in front of the disillusioned president.
The hearings of witnesses continued in the afternoon, with that of Kim Kardashian principal driver During the stay, then that of his bodyguard.