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Four more of the 17 taken into custody on Monday were freed,
taking the number in police hands down to 10 a one day before
the deadline by which they should, in normal circumstances, be
indicted or released.
Thieves wearing balaclavas and jackets marked 'police' burst
into the luxury property where reality TV star Kardashian, who
is married to U.S. rapper Kanye West, was sleeping in the early
hours of Oct. 3.
They tied her up at gunpoint before making off on bicycles with
her engagement ring and other jewels worth 9 million euros ($9.5
million), police officials and judicial sources said at the
time.
Among those kept in custody on Thursday is a 72-year-old
arrested in a village in the hills behind the southern Riviera
coast, according to judicial sources, as well as the brother of
a man hired to drive Kardashian around during her Paris stays.
The driver himself was among three released on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, police and judicial sources said the 17
rounded up by police in the Paris region, Rouen and near the
southern hill town of Grasse included known underworld figures.
The Le Parisien newspaper said in a report on Wednesday the
arrested included one known for high-profile motorway robberies,
and known in the underworld by a French-language nickname of Nez
Rape, pronounced Nay Rappay and which roughly translates into
English as Scrape-Nose.
Another netted along with his two sons in a police raid at a
house on the eastern edge of Paris goes by the nickname of Omar
le Vieux, or Old Omar, the newspaper said.
Standard French procedure when people are taken into custody is
that they must either be released 96 hours later or formally
placed under judicial investigation on specific counts of
suspected crimes.
In the Kardashian case, that gives police until Friday morning
to decide whether to release those who remain in custody or
decide they have enough information to justify formal
investigation.
(Reporting By Brian Love and Chine Labbe; Editing by Andrew
Callus)
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