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Thieves grab US$5m from Qatar women in Paris heist
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TWO Qatari women were held up on a Paris motorway and robbed of valuables worth more than 5 million euros (US$5.3 million) in the latest heist targeting wealthy visitors to the French capital.
The women, in their 60s, 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 yesterday.
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 US$10 million in jewels in a luxury apartment in the heart of Paris.
Police said the robbers held a gun to Kardashian’s head, bound and gagged her and shut her into a bathroom in the biggest jewelry robbery of an individual in France in more than 20 years.
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.
In the Paris area alone, tourism revenue is expected to plunge by 1.5 billion euros this year.
Security has been stepped up around tourist magnets in Paris in response to the high-profile robberies.
The attack on the Qatari women took place on a section of motorway leading north from Paris to the Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget airports which is often the scene of hold-ups targeting wealthy foreigners in luxury cars, some of whom carry large amounts of cash.
Le Bourget is often used by wealthy travelers flying in private jets.
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