Kim Kardashian is speaking out after a panel of judges and jurors reached a verdict in her jewelry heist trial.

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.