“I had horrible thoughts”, the singer looks back on the home-jacking of which she was a victim

On the night of Tuesday December 19 to Wednesday December 20, 2023, individuals armed with baseball bats entered Vitaa's home, in Rueil-Malmaison. The singer and her husband were present at the time of the incident, as were their children. According to the Nanterre public prosecutor's office, three men broke into the property and kidnapped the family in order to steal valuables, including jewelry, a suitcase and an iPhone 15. A traumatic event for the star who had broken her silence on the social network

“Last night, my family and I experienced one of the most trying and traumatic nights of our lives. Although we sometimes think about it, we are never prepared for it and I would not wish this ordeal on anyone, not even to my worst enemy”wrote the mother of three children, before thanking her fans for their “thousands of messages of love and support” which warmed his heart extremely.

“It makes you hate being famous” : Vitaa remembers with emotion the violent home-jacking of which she was a victim

In his documentary Vitaa: My name is Charlottethe singer recounted, not without emotion, how the burglary to which her family was the victim last December took place. It was 6:30 a.m. when her husband Hicham Bendaoud ordered her to call the police and go upstairs with the children. “In the two bedrooms upstairs, there are my daughter-in-law and my 20 month old daughter. There is a guy in front of me, with a bat, a hood, who raises his bat at me, who shouts at me: 'Give me the money, give me the jewelry'. I had horrible thoughts. I said to myself: 'He's going to rape me'“, she recalled.

“My daughter-in-law is on the floor with my daughter in her arms, crying, and I see my daughter looking at me. Luckily, my daughter-in-law managed to hide her phone“continued the one who was able to contact the authorities who arrived in just “four minutes”. The singer then explains that she is still traumatized by this intrusion. “Living with the fear of being woken up in the middle of the night, of not being able to put anything in your home (…) It makes you hate being famous.”

Vitaa: what has changed for the star since the burglary of her home

Guest on the set of C to youthe former godmother of the Star Academy explained that she did not live “more of the same” since the burglary. “We take security even though I'm not someone like that at all. I go out, I do lots of things with my children, I'm like everyone else… There are lots of things I don't do not the same way anymore.”

Faced with Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, Vitaa revealed that she had made a radical decision. The singer confided that she had taken everything out of her house and that she no longer wore “certain jewelry” of value.

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