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Paris (AFP) - Two Qatari women were held up on a Paris motorway and robbed of valuables worth more than five million euros ($5.3 million) in the latest heist targeting wealthy visitors to the French capital.
The women, in their sixties, had just left Le Bourget airport northeast of the capital on Monday when their chauffeur-driven Bentley was held up by two masked men who sprayed them with tear gas, a police source said Tuesday.
The robbers stole "everything in the vehicle: jewels, clothes, luggage", the source said.
Last month, American reality TV star Kim Kardashian was tied up and robbed at gunpoint of $10 million in jewels in a luxury apartment in the heart of Paris.
In another incident, Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat was punched in the face and sprayed with tear gas by three masked men in an upmarket area of Paris this month.
The incidents have done little to help efforts by the government to coax tourists back to France in the wake of the November 2015 jihadist attacks in which 130 people died, followed by the Bastille Day truck massacre in southern city Nice that killed 86.
Tourism appears to be down in Paris, with all the crime stories of the past 2 years. How are these robbers able to locate and target wealthy people so easily and get away with it?
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-qatari-women-robbed-paris-motorway-5-mn-100355462.html