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Daily Mail
14-05-2025
- Daily Mail
US brothers are beaten up with miniature Eiffel Towers after angering Paris street vendors by filming them
Two American brothers were beaten up by angry Parisian street vendors after filming them with their phones. The tourists, understood to be 24 and 28, were visiting the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday when they were reportedly attacked with miniature souvenirs of the iconic Parisian landmark. One of the brothers took a blow to the face and was left with a bleeding wound, according to local media. He was treated by first responders, but his injuries were minor and did not require him being taken to hospital. Police were called following the altercation, but the perpetrators had already fled the scene. The brothers filed a complaint following the attack, French outlet Le Parisien reported, which led to a suspect being arrested and taken into police custody. It is understood that the American visitors are active on social media, but their identities have not been disclosed. They had reportedly been filming the street vendors before the fight broke out. The attack on the American tourists in Paris comes after a British holidaymaker was allegedly repeatedly raped by a taxi driver following a night out in the French capital. The alleged attack took place in Bois de Boulogne on March 15, French newspaper Le Figaro reported. Local police were alerted to the incident by a resident who said they had stumbled across the woman 'crying and in a state of shock' in her garden. Police rushed to the woman's aid with the alleged victim claiming she had ordered a taxi home the night before. She had just spent the previous evening with her friends out in Paris. According to local reports, the taxi driver picked the woman up in the capital before driving her to Bois de Boulogne and raping her several times. Police were informed by the Brit that the alleged attack had only ended after the woman had managed to escape the parked car and run into a nearby garden, a source told the French newspaper. The man had found the terrified woman in the morning and immediately called the police. The victim was treated by officials from the Paris fire service and taken to the Garches hospital for routine checks.
ABC News
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Kim Kardashian's stylist details 'terror' on night of Paris robbery
Kim Kardashian's stylist has told a court of the terror they both felt during a multi-million dollar jewellery robbery in Paris in 2016, with the star screaming "I have babies" and "I have to live". The billionaire celebrity is set to testify later on Tuesday, local time, at the trial of the so-called "grandpa gang" accused of robbing her at gunpoint in her hotel room. Stylist Simone Harouche told a Paris court the attack had been "traumatising". The suspects are accused of tying up Kardashian with zip ties and duct tape before fleeing with jewels worth millions of dollars. They included a $4 million engagement ring given to her by her then-husband rapper Kanye West, according to investigators. Ms Harouche, who was asleep in the same luxury hotel flat at the time of the attack, spoke to the court ahead of Kardashian's testimony. "'I have babies, and I have to live' — that's what I heard her say. 'Take everything — I need to live'," Ms Harouche told the court. Ms Harouche was downstairs in the duplex flat at the time of the attack, while Kardashian was upstairs. "We've been friends since we were little girls," she told the court. "So when I heard this sound, it was very different, and it woke me up, because it was a sound that I had never heard from Kim. The stylist rushed to lock herself in the bathroom and texted Kardashian's sister Kourtney and their bodyguard for help. Ms Harouche said when the robbers left, Kardashian joined her downstairs. "She was beside herself, I've never seen her like that before," she said. "She just was screaming and kept saying we need to get out of here, we need help, what are we going to do if they come back." Ms Harouche cried at times during her testimony and said she had changed careers and sought therapy because of the robbery. She said the incident caused her post-traumatic stress and made her fearful of being around celebrities. In 2020, Kardashian told US talk show host David Letterman about the heist in an interview, fighting back tears as she recalled her fears of being raped that night. "I kept looking at the concierge," she said, referring to the hotel's concierge who had been forced at gunpoint to lead the gang to her apartment. "I was like, 'Are we gonna die? Just tell them I have children, I have babies ... I have to get home'." The 10 suspects who are standing trial — nine men and one woman — have been dubbed "the grandpa gang", with many in their late 60s or 70s. One of the accused, 71-year-old Yunice Abbas, told French media he and his other accomplices did not know who Kardashian was. Five of the suspects — all men — face armed robbery and kidnapping charges and potentially risk being sentenced to life imprisonment. The others are charged with complicity in the heist or the unauthorised possession of a weapon. Most of the jewels, including the $4 million engagement ring, were never found. Reuters
