PARIS — Seventeen people were arrested Monday in France on suspicion of involvement in the $9 million jewel robbery of the reality television star Kim Kardashian West during Paris Fashion Week in October, officials said.

Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, said the arrests were made Monday morning in Paris and the surrounding region and in southern France, notably in Grasse, a center of perfume production near Nice.

Thibault-Lecuivre did not identify the people who had been detained and could not confirm if the people who carried out the robbery were among them. She said the oldest of those arrested was 72 and several of the others were in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, which suggested that they were part of an experienced group.

In the early hours of Oct. 3, five men wearing balaclavas burst into a residence where Kardashian West was staying, tied her up, and robbed her at gunpoint. The assailants fled on foot and on bicycles.

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