Concierge At Kim's Paris Hotel Says There Was "No Real Security" At Luxury Building
Posted on Tue Oct 18th, 2016 9:45am PDT By X17 Staff
How did her trusty bodyguard Pascal Duvier overlook this glaringly obvious detail?
The concierge involved in Kim Kardashian's terrifying Paris robbery is breaking his anonymity and speaking out about the night of the crime, and the most interesting part of his story is the fact he claims there was absolutely no security in place at the luxury building! The 39-year-old man, named Abdulrahman, revealed that he had sent an email to his bosses in 2010 warning them of the dangerous lax security measures.
- "There was no real security at all. It’s a choice. The hotel doesn’t mind about security. We told them years and years before, you have to make a camera, you have to put [in place] a security process, about keys. Nothing was locked, there was no proper security there. I told the hotel years ago, you need better security and they didn’t mind. If you look at that big door, it wasn’t locked, it was open. We talked about it and nobody cared. The code of the door was never changed and everybody knew it. There is a camera in the main wall of the hotel, behind the big red [front] doors, but it didn’t work for years," he told Daily Mail.
The Algerian national is traumatized and living fear following the ordeal, and he plans to take legal action against the No Name hotel.
- "Immediately afterwards, I was very angry, and the first one I blamed was the hotel. They are responsible, I think. And I still blame them now. I told them, look what you did! What I told you for six years? Security cameras and other things are meant for days like today, to prevent these things from happening. If you have good guards, electronic systems to lock the doors, it can be possible to secure the hotel. One day, someone might be killed. That is more important than a robbery of rocks and metal," he explained.
The father-of-one also offered a play-by-play on the how the jewel heist went down.
- "I was behind the desk. The door was closed, but it is glass and they told me to open the door, making a motion behind the door. I saw police [uniforms], the hats, also the police jackets, with reflective badges, like the police have. I told them to open it because it was open, and he asked with gestures, he made me come to open the door. So I came to open it and just when I opened it, he grabbed me and handcuffed me. In the first seconds, I thought they were policemen making an intervention. I told them, I’m working here, what is wrong? After that he questioned me, where is the security video? At that time, I said sh**, it’s a robbery," he recalled.
The robbers even threatened his life!
- "At first I looked at them and one got very angry. He asked me to put my head down and never look at him again. He repeated, never, never look at me, or I will kill you. I saw that two of them had guns, then I just looked down," he noted.
Abdulrahman doesn't feel as if he has been treated fairly by authorities in the days following the crime, and believes his personal safety has been compromised.
- "I ended up having the handcuffs on until almost five in the morning because policemen did not have the ability to open them. It made me upset. The police were not very professional. They did not look after me afterwards, they didn’t offer me any counseling or anything. Psychologically, I have to repair myself. They told the press that I said [certain details] about the robbers’ identities. That was very dangerous for me, as it shows I gave evidence to the police," he lamented.
The suspects are still at large, and if found, face up to 30 years in prison for armed robbery by an organized gang, criminal conspiracy and kidnapping.