Abdulrahman plans to sue the No Address hotel where he was working as concierge when Kim was robbed at gunpoint in Paris.
- Oct 19, 2016
AceShowbiz - The concierge, who worked at the No Address hotel where Kim Kardashian was staying when she was robbed, opened up on the lack of security at the establishment. There was a security code, but it hadn't been changed for years and still stayed the same even two weeks after the heist. "It was No Address, no security," Abdulrahman told The Daily Mail. "Nothing was locked, there was no proper security there."
"There was no real security at all. It's a choice. The hotel doesn't mind about security. We told them years and years before, you have to make a camera, you have to put [in place] a security process, about keys," he continued. "There is a camera in the main wall of the hotel, behind the big red [front] doors, but it didn't work for years."
The concierge said he warned the hotel years ago about the lack of security but he was ignored. "I told the hotel years ago, you need better security and they didn't mind," he claimed. "If you look at that big door, it wasn't locked, it was open. We talked about it and nobody cared. The code of the door was never changed and everybody knew it."
According to Abdulrahman, he was more of a security guard instead of a concierge and he was the only one on duty the night the robbery took place. He said Kim's apartment could easily be accessed through a wooden door with a single lock and no bolt. Despite the lack of security, celebrities flocked to the hotel because they expected utmost discretion.
Seeing police jackets and badges, he initially thought the robbers were cops. "In the first seconds, I thought they were policemen making an intervention," he recalled. When he was suddenly grabbed and handcuffed, "I told them, I'm working here, what is wrong? After that he questioned me, where is the security video? At that time, I said sh**, it's a robbery."
Abdulrahman blamed the hotel for the robbery and planned to file a lawsuit. "I told them, look what you did! What I told you for six years? Security cameras and other things are meant for days like today, to prevent these things from happening. If you have good guards, electronic systems to lock the doors, it can be possible to secure the hotel," he said. "One day, someone might be killed. That is more important than a robbery of rocks and metal."
He was also mad at the police. "I ended up having the handcuffs on until almost five in the morning because policemen did not have the ability to open them," he claimed. "It made me upset. The police were not very professional. They did not look after me afterwards, they didn't offer me any counseling or anything. Psychologically, I have to repair myself."
