Kim Kardashian's jewellery stolen in Paris raid has almost certainly been melted down, re-cut and sold off, say French police 

  • The cache of jewels stolen from the reality TV star in Paris was worth millions
  • An engagement ring given to the 36-year-old was worth £3.5million alone
  • She was held at gunpoint during a heist in October last year in the French capital 
  • Nine men and a woman have  been arrested and charged with armed robbery

By Peter Allen In Paris for MailOnline

Published: 12:44 EST, 18 January 2017 | Updated: 14:29 EST, 18 January 2017

The multi-million pounds cache of jewels stolen from Kim Kardashian in Paris has been melted down or re-cut and sold off, police sources said today.

They include the 36-year-old reality TV star’s £3.5million diamond engagement ring that she received from rapper husband Kanye West.

All of it was taken during a terrifying robbery at Kim’s apartment in the French capital last October.

Kim Kardashian's £3.5million engagement ring, pictured, was stolen in the heist in Paris

Nine men and a woman have since been caught and charged with armed robbery, and they are providing details of what happened to the jewels to police.

An enquiry source told the BFM TV channel that Ms Kardashian ‘is unlikely to get them back’.

Jerome Guillochon, president of a French jewellers federation, told the news outlet: ‘They separate the stone from the metal.

‘On one had, they will melt the metal, and on the other, they will usually cut the stones completely, in order to remove all markings or modify the shape.

Kim arrives at a Paris restaurant in October

‘Because if there is a typical shape in exceptional jewellery, if there is a ring in the shape of a cushion, they can perhaps cut it in circles.’

Ms Kardashian’s ring had the name of the sports company Adidas carved into it, and was easily recognisable.

Mr Guillochon said technical equipment including lasers would have been used to alter the jewellery, and then it could have fetched millions on the black market.

Two of those in custody – Aomar Ait Khedache and Didier Dubreucq – have been placed in Antwerp, the capital of the Belgium diamond trade, since the heist.

Detectives believed they travelled there so as to dispose of the jewels in the days after the robbery.

All of those charged are currently in custody and face trial later this year. 

Kim is expected to return to France from the US to give evidence. 

 

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