Robbers claimed they were police to con their way into Kim Kardashian’s Paris home, says concierge

The unnamed doorman claims robbers buzzed the intercom and said it was 'urgent' 
Robbed: Kim Kardashian was bound, gagged and robbed during Paris Fashion Week
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Peter Allen|Paris6 October 2016
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Robbers tricked their way into the Paris home of the world’s most famous reality TV star by simply saying: “It’s urgent – we must see Miss Kardashian,” a concierge has claimed.

The testament from the so far unnamed doorman is the latest spoken evidence to be made available to detectives investigating Monday’s heist at Kim Kardashian’s flat.

She says she was held up at gunpoint by members of a five-man gang, who then bound and gagged her before making off with £9m worth of jewels

The concierge – who has not been identified – has told police the robbers arrived at around 2.30am, and got through a first set of locked doors by buzzing the intercom, and saying: “It’s urgent – we must see Miss Kardashian.”

Kim Kardashian at Paris Fashion Week before the attack
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Once inside they falsely claimed to be police, and then pointed a gun at the man’s head, forcing him to lead them to Ms Kardashian’s first floor apartment.

Detectives are still investgating how this door, which was armoured and locked from the inside, came to be opened.

“There is no sign of forced entry,” said an investigating source.

Police said that the gang is likely to have arrived and left by bicycle.

There were no CCTV cameras in or directly outside the block, but recorded images from other parts of Paris “point to the possibility of the gang members being on push bikes,” said the source.

Ms Kardashian says she raised the alarm after managing to untie and ungag herself, and screaming for help from the flat’s balcony, and called her bodyguard at 2.56am.

Pascal Duvier, the muscular giant who is usually always at her side, was out at a nightclub with other Kardashian family members.

Ms Kardashian herself fled France within a few hours of the raid, boarding a private jet so as to be with her husband, the rapper Kanye West in New York.

Kim Kardashian at Paris Fashion Week 2017

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