text: Millions of pounds worth of jewellery stolen after incident at private residence involving five armed, masked men 
   
   Kim Kardashian robbed at gunpoint by men disguised as police in Paris 
   
   Kim Kardashian West has been robbed at gunpoint in a private residence in Paris by assailants disguised as police who made off with millions of pounds worth of jewellery. 
   
   
   
   A spokeswoman for the reality TV star said she was “badly shaken but physically unharmed” after they tied her up in the flat’s bathroom before fleeing the scene. 
   
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   A Paris police official told the Associated Press that five armed men, who were still at large, stole a jewellery box containing valuables worth €6m (£5.2m) as well as a ring worth €4m, and mobile telephones. Police said the robbers escaped on bicycles. 
   
   French media reported that the men, who had masks and were wearing fake police armbands, arrived at about 3am on Monday and threatened the concierge at the building in rue Tronchet, near the Madeleine church and not far from the Elysée Palace, the British embassy and the designer shops of rue du Faubourg-Saint Honoré. 
   
   The robbers handcuffed the concierge before ordering him to show them where Kardashian West was staying. After forcing their way into the apartment they tied her up and locked her in the bathroom. 
   
   “The haul amounts to several million euros, most of which is jewellery. We’re still trying to establish the exact amount stolen,” a police source told Agence France-Presse. He added that Kardashian West had flown out of France on Monday morning after giving a statement to police. 
   
   
   
   The 35-year-old had been in Paris since last week for fashion week and had attended the Balenciaga show earlier on Sunday. 
   
   
   
   Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) Balenciaga. No make up today. pic.twitter.com/l2WknhHoiy 
   
   The reality star sat in the front row at the Givenchy show, with her sister Kourtney and their mother, Kris Jenner, in a show of support for their sister, Kendall Jenner, who was modelling in the presentation. 
   
   The family has been uncharacteristically silent on social media since the report involving Kardashian West. 
   
   
   
   Her husband, Kanye West, had abruptly ended his performance at the Meadows music and arts festival at Citi Field in New York on Sunday night. He stopped midway through his performance of Heartless, citing a “family emergency”. 
   
   This was confirmed by the Meadows on Twitter. 
   
   The Meadows NYC (@themeadowsnyc) Due to an emergency, Kanye West had to end his performance early. Please get home safely. 
   
   Kardashian West is a prolific user of Twitter and Snapchat but, at the time of writing, she had not posted about the incident on social media. 
   
   However, her name was trending on Twitter and Facebook as the report of the robbery spread, with many initially casting doubt on the story. 
   
   The Carpool Karaoke host, James Corden, reminded those making fun of the reality star that she was a “mother, a daughter, a wife, a friend”. 
   
   James Corden (@JKCorden) People making jokes about @KimKardashian tonight would do well to remember that she's a mother,a daughter,a wife,a friend.Be nice or shut up 
   
   In a separate incident in Paris on Wednesday, Kardashian West was rushed by a man while getting out of her vehicle, prompting her security team to step in. 
   
   Vitalii Sediuk, a self-described “entertainment Hollywood reporter” from Ukraine, had attempted to grab the model Gigi Hadid in Milan days earlier. 
   
   Kardashian West tweeted after the incident: “My security [Pascal Duvier] is a G.” 
   
   
   
   On Sunday, before the incident reportedly took place, she had joked about Duvier crashing her paparazzi shots. 
   
   Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) This guy is always in my shot! pic.twitter.com/7LC6ewaYPO 
   
   The private apartment where Kardashian West was staying, in a residence called the Hôtel de Pourtalès, was built in 1838 and is now a listed building. Its luxury apartments, in the chic 8th arrondissement of Paris, are popular with the wealthy and famous; past guests include Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna, Prince and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. 
   
   Kardashian West and her husband are frequent visitors to Paris. In May 2014 they celebrated their marriage with several hundred guests at the Château de Versailles. 
   
   France has experienced some spectacular jewellery heists in recent years. In the biggest, items worth €103m were stolen from the Carlton hotel in Cannes in July 2013. 
   
   Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, leader of the opposition Les Républicains party in city hall, said the capital’s Socialist administration was to blame for the Kardashian West attack. 
   
   “There’s a great urgency over crime in Paris. You can do all the publicity you want around ‘I love Paris’ … but it’s all been brutally overshadowed by the Kim Kardashian affair that is on a loop on the news,” Kosciusko-Morizet told Europe 1 radio. 
   
   Condemning the attack and vowing that the perpetrators would soon be traced, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, also hit back at those who were using the incident to “create controversy” for political ends. 
   
   “This very rare incident, which took place in a private space, does not in any way call into question the work of police officers and security officers of Paris’s public places,” she said. 
   
   Calling on politicians from all sides “to act responsibly” in the period ahead of France’s presidential election next year, she said that as Paris continued to struggle to recover from last year’s terrorist attacks such criticism was unhelpful. 
   
   “When everyone’s priority should be to boost the number of people coming [to Paris], using this incident to create controversy would directly hit the tourism sector and its 500,000 employees in the Île-de-France region [around the capital].” ||||| Story highlights A ring worth $4.5 million and jewelry box worth $5.5 million were stolen 
   
   Kardashian West bound and gagged during an incident in Paris with a gun to her head 
   
   New York (CNN) Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West has reunited with her husband and children in New York after a harrowing incident in Paris where she was held at gunpoint and robbed by men dressed as police officers in a private apartment. 
   
   A spokeswoman for Kardashian West said the celebrity was "badly shaken but physically unharmed" following the incident, which took place early Monday morning local time. 
   
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   Kardashian was staying at an apartment inside a luxury private mansion that can be rented out for days or weeks at a time. 
   
   The French Interior Ministry said five men threatened the mansion concierge with a weapon, handcuffed him and forced him to open the private apartment. 
   
   Two of the men were able to gain entry to Kardashian West's room, according to the Paris prosecutor's office, and a gun was held to her head. ||||| FILE - In this June 24, 2015, file photo, Kim Kardashian poses during a photo call at the Cannes Lions 2015. A spokeswoman for Kardashian West says she was held up at gunpoint inside her Paris hotel room... (Associated Press) 
   
   FILE - In this June 24, 2015, file photo, Kim Kardashian poses during a photo call at the Cannes Lions 2015. A spokeswoman for Kardashian West says she was held up at gunpoint inside her Paris hotel room... (Associated Press) 
   
   PARIS (AP) — Kim Kardashian West was unharmed after being robbed at gunpoint of more than $10 million worth of jewelry inside a private Paris residence Sunday night, police officials said. 
   
   A spokeswoman for Kardashian West said the reality TV star, who was in Paris attending fashion week shows, was "badly shaken but physically unharmed" after masked men dressed as police officers also tied her up in the flat's bathroom before fleeing the scene. 
   
   A Paris police official said five assailants, who were still at large, stole a jewelry box containing valuables worth 6 million euros ($6.7 million) as well as a ring worth 4 million euros. 
   
   In a message to The Associated Press, the Paris prosecutors' office said that only two of the five suspects forced their way into the apartment, located in the chic eighth district of the French capital. 
   
   With France under a state of emergency following terror attacks that left more than 200 people dead in the last 20 months, news of the robbery immediately sparked criticism from political opponents to the Socialist government. 
   
   Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, a right-wing member of Paris council and a potential candidate in next year's presidential election, said the robbery was proof that "there is a general emergency on security" in the French capital. 
   
   "Regardless of all the very expensive advertising we do to promote 'I Love Paris,' tourism and the image of Paris, all these ads have been brutally canceled by the Kim Kardashian case," Kosciusko-Morizet told Europe 1 radio. 
   
   Two police officials said the robbers tied up Kardashian West and locked her in the bathroom before escaping on bikes. They were not authorized to be publicly named speaking about ongoing investigations. 
   
   Kanye West was performing at the Meadows Music and Arts Festival in New York at the time. He abruptly ended his set Sunday night after telling his fans had a family emergency. 
   
   "I'm sorry, family emergency I have to stop the show," West told the audience. 
   
   Kardashian West was also ambushed last week by a serial celebrity accoster who attempted to assault her as she was entering a restaurant. She was also attacked outside of a Paris fashion week show in 2014. She wasn't hurt in either incident. 
   
   Paris has been a special place for Kardashian West and her husband, who spent the weekend there before marrying in Florence in May of 2014. 
   
   Kardashian West was staying in a residence near Paris' Madeleine church. Police said the thieves entered the building after the concierge let them in. Handcuffed and at gunpoint, he then led them to the starlet's flat. 
   
   It's unclear whether the couple's two children, 3-year-old daughter North and 10-month-old son Saint, were with Kardashian West when the robbery happened. Police said the actress' family was placed under police protection at the George V hotel after the incident. 
   
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   AP entertainment writer Sandy Cohen in Los Angeles and Samuel Petrequin in Paris contributed to this story.
target: – Kim Kardashian is "badly shaken but physically unharmed" after being held up by robbers disguised as police officers Sunday night, a spokesperson says. Police in Paris are searching for the robbers, who tied up Kardashian and locked her in the bathroom of a private residence, not a hotel room as initially reported, per the Guardian. Officials tell the AP that five attackers overpowered the building's concierge and two of them entered the apartment. They stole a jewelry box containing valuables worth $6.7 million and a ring worth $4.5 million, police say. Sources tell People that Kardashian's two children, 3-year-old daughter North and 10-month-old son Saint, were not present during the robbery. Police say that after the incident, Kardashian's family was placed under police protection at a Paris hotel. Kanye West abruptly ended his Sunday night concert at the Meadows Festival in New York after learning that his wife had been robbed. CNN reports that he left the stage mid-song after somebody ran on stage to talk to him. He told fans: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Family emergency, I have to stop the show."