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.

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.

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.