Kim Kardashian expressed her gratitude to "the French authorities for pursuing justice" in a statement to PEOPLE after eight of 10 suspects were found guilty in court for the Paris robbery trial.

When the star was robbed at gunpoint, in 2016, the incident announced her graduation into something greater than a glorified Instagram influencer. Now her courtroom testimony is just another cog in her family’s media machinations.

A week after Kim Kardashian testified in Paris about being held at gunpoint during a 2016 break-in, the court reached a verdict. Eight of the 10 suspects were found guilty, with two being acquitted.