Nine years have passed since Kim Kardashian suffered a terrifying ordeal in Paris. The billionaire celebrity was visiting the city for Paris Fashion Week in October 2016 when a gang broke into her hotel room, held her at gunpoint before tying her up and shoving her into a bathroom. She later said she feared she would be raped and killed in what became known in France as L'Affaire Kardashian. They absconded with $10 million of jewelry — including the $4 million engagement ring given to Kardashian by her now ex-husband Kanye West. The star fled back to America after giving her statement to French police, and it’s taken almost a decade for the case to come to trial. Because of the age of the men on trial, who are now in their sixties and seventies, they have been dubbed the “grandpa robbers”. The heist was rather bumbling in its execution, with one of the men, Yunice Abbas, falling off his getaway bicycle and dropping a bag of jewels in his haste to flee the scene. Abbas, 62, has not only confessed to the crime, he wrote a book about it: I Held Up Kim Kardashian. The trial has started today in Paris at the Palais de Justice court and is expected to run for three weeks. Kardashian, who has since started studying to become a lawyer, will appear in court on May 13. Here are the case notes to brush up on before then: Kardashian was staying at the Hotel de Pourtalès, a luxurious apartment hotel in the 8th arrondissemont where Madonna and Beyoncé have reportedly previously stayed, while she was in the city for Paris Fashion Week. Abbas and four other men were allegedly staking out the building on Sunday night of 2 October leading into the morning of 3 October. Kim’s sisters Kendall and Kourtney were still out a nightclub, along with their bodyguard Pascal Duvier, while she had returned to the flat with her stylist friend Simone Harouche. A gang, dressed as policemen, were let into the hotel lobby around 2.30am and began brandishing a gun. They allegedly handcuffed the night guard, PhD student Abderrahmane Ouatiki and forced him to take them to Kardashian’s suite. Ouatiki told police the men asked him “Where’s the rapper’s wife?” in reference to her then-husband West, who had flown back to New York a few days earlier. Kardashian was resting on her bed with her phone wearing a robe at the time. “I heard pounding up the stairs,” Kim later said on her show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. “I saw two guys holding another guy down in police uniforms right outside of my bedroom.” She said called out for Kourtney and Stephanie before dialling 911, the American emergency phone number. She then tried to call Duvier when the alleged robbers burst in holding a gun at her, shouting and pushing her back onto the bed. "They kept on saying: the ring, the ring!” Kardashian told David Letterman during an interview. “I was so startled that it didn't compute for a minute.” As the gang did not speak English, Ouatiki had to translate. The gang took the ring along with several other items of jewelry and cash, which was stuffed in a bag. Kardashian reports she was grabbed by one of the men and feared they were about to sexually assault her. “This is the time I’m going to get raped,” Kardashian told Letterman. “I’m like: ‘What is happening? Are we gonna die? Just tell them I have children. I have babies .’” Instead, she was tied up using “saucissonnage”, a technique reported favoured by home-jackers (French robbers who target wealthy individuals in their homes) that involves tying someone up like a salami sausage. Kardashian was bound with zip ties and duct tape, with tape placed over her mouth, and left in a bathtub. Harouche, hearing the commotion from her room on another floor, had locked herself in a different bathroom. Kardashian managed to free herself by the time Duvier arrived. Meanwhile the five men escaped on foot or via bicycle, less than 50 minutes after they entered the building. The gang made off with an estimated $10 million of jewels — the ring plus multiple pieces in a Louis Vuitton jewelry box. An iPhone 6 and a BlackBerry were also taken. Kardashian reported the following items stolen to police: two diamond bracelets from Cartier; a diamond necklace spelling out Saint (the name of one of her children); a gold and diamond necklace from Jacob; a platinum-mounted diamond cross from Jacob & Co; three gold Jacob & Co bracelets; diamond Lauren Schwartz earrings; a diamond Lauren Schwartz necklace; earrings from Yania; a necklace with six diamonds; two gold rings; and a Rolex watch. Kardashian’s engagement ring contained an 18.88-carat diamond and was valued at $4 million. It was taken in the robbery and has not been seen again, although one of the robbers later said they were too scared to sell it. Police believe the jewels were taken to Belgium where they were melted down or broken up, then sold. Only one piece has been recovered — the platinum-mounted diamond cross from Jacob worth over $33,000. It was dropped on the street when Abbas fell of his bike and picked up by a passer-by who reportedly wore it all day before she saw the news and handed it into police. The call reportedly came into police at around 3am on the morning of 3 October. Paris police chief Christian Sainte was asleep when he got a call for "Kim Kardashian, victim of VMA” — meaning “vol à main armée” or armed robbery. Sainte told Vanity Fair he was unfamiliar with Kardashian and had to google her. The police arrived and sealed off the crime scene. Kardashian gave her statement and was allowed to leave the country. She flew back to America by private jet from Le Bourget Airport the same morning. Kardashian took a brief break from social media afterwards. There was speculation that the photos she shared online, including snaps of her wearing the diamond ring, could have been used to track her movements. An online gossip website reported that the robbery was a hoax, prompting Kardashian to sue. Abbas woke up later that day to his wife watching the case on the news. He said she immediately suspected her husband. Three months later, in 2017, he was arrested along with several alleged accomplices. Police said the gang underestimated the ability to track them. There was increased CCTV presence in the French capital, following the 2015 terrorist attacks on the Bataclan concert venue. There was also DNA evidence left behind in the flat. Kardashian fired Duvier after the robbery and later sued him for $6.1 million for failing to protect her and her jewelry. They settled out of court. There are ten people currently on trial in Paris. Five were allegedly there on the night, while the other five allegedly aided the crime in some way. All but two of them deny the charges. Abbas, 71 , confessed and wrote a book about it, claiming it was to be his final “job” before he retired from a life of crime. He has previously been found guilty of charges of petty crime, bank robbery, and small scale drug trafficking. He says he was one of three men who remained in the reception while two others went upstairs with the cuffed guard to rob Kardashian. He also says it was him who fell off the bicycle and dropped the jewels, including the necklace that was recovered later. Aomar Aït Khedache, 70, nickname “Old Omar”, has admitted using the revolver during the robbery, and is the suspected mastermind. Khedache entered the apartment and his DNA was found on some of the tape used to tie up Kardashian. He wrote to the celebrity — and the judge — from his cell following his arrest to apologise for the “psychological damage” caused by the crime. “I hope that this letter will allow you to forget little by little the trauma that you suffered by my fault,” he wrote. His son, Harminy Aït Khedache, 38, is the alleged getaway driver. Didier Dubreucq, 69, nickname “Blue Eyes”, denies any involvement. Dubreucq is alleged to be the second man who entered the apartment during the robbery. Marc-Alexandre, 36, aka “The Kid” allegedly entered the Kardashian apartment on the night. His father Marc Boyer, 62, is charged with possession of the German World War I Mauser 7.65mm pistol used in the robbery. He allegedly pulled out of the heist at the last minute and was replaced by his son. Gary Madar, 34, was arrested in January 2017 but denies any involvement with the heist. His brother Michael runs a transport company used by the Kardashian family and was working for Kourtney during the Paris Fashion Week in question. Madar also worked at a café run by another defendant, Florus Héroui, and is accused of passing along information about the family’s movements. Héroui, 58, nicknamed “Flo”, was the bar manager of Le Tabloid where he allegedly passed information from Madar on to Old Omar. Christiane Glotin, 78, nickname “Cathy”, allegedly helped organise the heist and travelled to Antwerp to help sell the jewels. François Delaporte, 61, aka “Big Guy”, is accused of association with the gang and possessing false documents. One of the accused, Marceau Baum-Gertner, 72, aka “Rough Nose” died on March 6, days before the trial started. He was allegedly the fence who helped the gang sell on the jewels. Pierre Bouianère, 72, is another alleged mastermind, but is not on trial due to his advanced Alzheimer's disease.