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French police have arrested 16 people in raids in connection with the robbery of US reality TV star Kim Kardashian West in Paris last year, police sources said.

Police swooped in the Paris region and the south of France following the discovery of DNA at the luxury Paris residence where she was tied up and robbed of jewellery worth about €9m (£7.8m) in October, one source said.

“One of the DNA samples matched an individual known to police for robbery and criminal offences, who is considered a major thug,” the source said.

Money and documents were also seized in the raids early on Monday morning.

A gang of armed and masked men had burst into the residence in a chic area of the capital where 36-year-old Kardashian West and her entourage were staying during fashion week last year.