"The civil party is Kim Kardashian, if it were someone else, I do not believe it would interest the media and the press to this extent," says Frank Berton, the lawyer for defendant Aomar Ait Khedache, on the first day of the trial for the 2016 robbery of American star Kim Kardashian in Paris. " What is important for us is ultimately to return the trial to its rightful focus, to place the facts in their proper context, and to set aside the personality of the civil party," he adds. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES