Kim Kardashian robbers 'noticed jewellery on social media', police say

Kim Kardashian's social media posts are likely to have made her a target for armed robbers who stole jewellery in a multi-million pound raid in Paris, police have said.

Jewellery reportedly worth around £9 million was stolen from a private apartment after the reality TV star was held at gunpoint and tied up.

Kardashian, who is married to rapper Kanye West, left the French capital on a private jet just hours after the robbery, which left her "badly shaken but physically unharmed''.

Police said the masked robbers, who were dressed as police officers, were focused on "possessions that had been seen and noticed via social media".

Four days ago, Kardashian posted a close-up photo of a huge diamond ring on her left hand.

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Johanna Primevert, chief spokeswoman for the Paris police department, told AP: "Clearly when you have a star like Kim Kardashian who has, I think, more than 48 million followers on Twitter...I think this could have happened abroad just as easily as in Paris.

"It was really the celebrity who was targeted, with possessions that had been seen and noticed via social media, and it was these goods that the attackers targeted."

Only two of the five suspects forced their way into the apartment, in the eighth district of Paris behind the Madeleine church, according to the city's prosecutors' office.

Two police officials told AP that robbers tied up Kardashian and locked her in the bathroom before escaping on bikes.

West abruptly ended a performance in New York when he was told the news, telling the audience: ''I'm sorry, family emergency, I have to stop the show.''

He has rescheduled two US tour dates in the wake of the robbery, with promoter LiveNation citing "family concerns".