At the Paris trial of 10 people accused of robbing Kim Kardashian at gunpoint in 2016, a defendant who wrote a book about the jewellery heist Tuesday said he regretted participating. But Abbas has sought to capitalise on the crime by publishing his version of events in a 2021 book titled "I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian".

Yunice Abbas, a key defendant in the trial of a gang accused of robbing Kim Kardashian at gunpoint in Paris in 2016 and stealing $9 million worth of jewellery from her, has said he regrets the trauma he caused the reality star-turned-business mogul in the years since.

Yunice Abbas was the first defendant questioned Tuesday in the trial in connection with the 2016 robbery during which the reality star was held at gunpoint.