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The genetic imprints of one person led to the far wider web
of suspects around dawn on Monday, many of them known figures of
the French underworld, a police source said.
Those arrested, including a septuagenarian investigators believe
was at the scene, are being questioned at the Quai des Orfevres
police headquarters on the banks of the Seine river in Paris
since yesterday morning's dawn swoops in Rouen, Grasse in
southeast France, and the greater Paris area.
Among them is the driver used to ferry Kardashian around for
Fashion Show week in the French capital, when the robbers broke
into her luxury apartment and tied her up at gunpoint before
making off with their haul, some of them on bicycles.
The robbery of jewels worth an estimated 9 million euros has led
police to people including a man of 72 or 73 years old in Grasse,
a village in the hills behind the southern French Riviera coast,
the police source said.
Kardashian was badly shaken but physically unharmed in the
heist.
She has mostly since kept a low public profile but broke her
silence on the robbery in a promotional clip for the upcoming
season of her reality TV show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians,"
which was released on Friday.
"They're going to shoot me in the back. There's no way out," a
tearful Kardashian tells her family, recalling the robbery. "It
makes me so upset to think about it."
The robbery made world headlines and unwanted publicity for one
of the world's most visited cities, where hotels and the wider
tourist sector have struggled to make a comeback commercially
after deadly attacks by Islamist militants in 2015.
($1 = 0.9497 euros)
(Reporting by Gerard Bon; Writing by Brian Love; Editing by Bate
Felix and Andrew Callus)
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