It’s been almost two weeks since the terrible robbery that left Kim Kardashian begging for her life. For the first time since the horrible ordeal, the concierge who let the robbers into Kim’s apartment has broken his silence. Apparently, security was a known issue for the hotel.
In an interview with The Daily Mail, the concierge, who is going by the name Abdulrahman out of fear for his safety, detailed the night’s events.
“I was behind the desk. The door was closed, but it is glass and they told me to open the door, making a motion behind the door,” he recalls. “I saw police [uniforms], the hats, also the police jackets, with reflective badges, like the police have. I told them to open it because it was open, and he asked with gestures, he made me come to open the door. So I came to open it and just when I opened it, he grabbed me and handcuffed me.”
“In the first seconds, I thought they were policemen making an intervention. 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 s–t, it’s a robbery,” he continued.
Abulrahman said that the robbers threatened to kill him if he looked at them. “At first I looked at them and one got very angry. He asked me to put my head down and never look at him again,” he said. “He repeated, never, never look at me, or I will kill you. I saw that two of them had guns, then I just looked down.”
According to the concierge, the security at the hotel is completely lacking. He had voiced concerns over the loose security, but it fell on deaf ears.
“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. Nothing was locked, there was no proper security there,” he said.
The front door security also hadn’t been changed in six years, so anyone who had been at the hotel in the last six years knew it.
“I told the hotel years ago, you need better security and they didn’t mind,” he said. “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.”
“There is a camera in the main wall of the hotel, behind the big red [front] doors, but it didn’t work for years,” he added.
Abdulrahman blames the hotel for what happened to Kim. He confronted them after the incident and asked them to finally remedy their security problem.
“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,” he explains. “If you have good guards, electronic systems to lock the doors, it can be possible to secure the hotel. One day, someone might be killed.”
Kim is currently on a break from work and spending time with her family while she recovers.
