heard someone somewhere say Kim K's in Paris for some fashion event and apparently when these celebs go to these big events, a lot of the clothing / jewelry they wear out and about at the events is on-loan. so she might not have traveled with all of that bling, but had it waiting for her in Paris?

I think it's the ReligionOfPeace guy's crew, Lake City Quiet Pills pulling off all of these jobs. They used to advertise them, inadvertently? a weak-form of intentional steganography? in the source to some file/image upload-sharing site. That sounds weak-sauce but then it was also encoded in their own dialect. and eventually encrypted, iirc.
Unless there are multiple crews consisting of 100's of ex-military types running around Europe/the planet pulling off these heists and other shenanigans.
if there were 5 faux gendarmes in her place, there were likely another two dozen guys involved in the job, either on location or remotely. iirc, they even have guys they roster for a job who, if for whatever reason they end up not participating, they still get paid. also, once you take/do a LCQP job, you're ineligible for another job from them for a certain amount of time. I think it varied whether it was a robbery or a quiet pill injection. Like 6 months of laying-low post robbery, vs a year if you were part of that crew that pulled off that execution of some Saudi royal during the G-20 conference or whatever that was.