Security footage from the night Kim Kardashian was robbed in Paris has surfaced online for the first time.
And while it doesn’t give us a clear look at the assailants who held the reality star up at gunpoint, it should certainly put to rest all the silly talk that Kim faked this horrible incident.
The following video was released by France’s M6 News.
It was filmed at 2:19 a.m. on the Monday Kardashian was dragged out of bed by a number of thieves who had broken into her apartment in France.
As you can see, the video features five alleged robbers – three on bicycles and two on foot – as they begin approaching Kim’s apartment complex at early on October 3.
According to the time code on the CCTV footage, the suspects fled the apartment approximately 49 minutes later.
Look closely enough and you can make out one man with a backpack.
All appear to be in quite a hurry as they leave the premises, although the camera is positioned too far back for anyone to get a look at their faces.
Police have not said if they have any leads on the perpetrators or if they will be able to use any sort of technology to zoom in on the men depicted above.
By this point, most of the detail behind Kim’s robbery are well known to the public.
The reality star had sent her bodyguard to look after Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall Jenner, who were off partying in Paris, because she had turned in for the night.
She was then awoken by sounds in her apartment, prior to armed assailants grabbing her in her bedroom and tying her hands behind her back.
As has now been confirmed by the building’s concierge, who was also taken hostage by the men, Kim screamed and begged for her life.
She told the men that she had two little kids at home.
Since this frightening incident, Kardashian has understandably fallen off the radar.
She has not sent any social media messages or made any public appearances.
By most accounts, she will eventually emerge and resume a semi-regular life, but it may be more low-key than it had been previously.
Expect fewer Instagram photos of her expensive wardrobe items or pieces of jewelry. Don’t expect Kim to tell the world where she is going all the time or where she is staying.
During an appearance on Australia’s Today Show, Kourtney Kardashian said this week that her sister is “not going great.”
Added Kourtney: “I think we’re all really still shaken up and, you know, I think she has a big, supportive family… Like all the traumatic things that we’ve been through, we get through them together as a family.”
True. And hopefully this does end up being the case.
But this robbery is unlike anything almost any celebrity has ever gone through before at all.
Of course, that isn’t stopping some tabloids from making up cover stories about what happened:
So very shameful.
We just hope Kardashian is enjoying this private time with her family and that she is feeling a little bit better everyday.