Masked men have robbed two Qatari women and their driver on a motorway north of Paris, taking valuables worth €5m (£4.5m; $5.6m), police sources say.
The sisters had left Le Bourget airport in their Bentley when they sprayed with tear gas and were forced off the trail.
“Everything in the vehicle: jewels, clothing, bag” was taken, a police source told AFP news agency.
A Saudi prince was robbed while passing through exactly the same place a couple of years ago.
A source who spoke to French digital TV station BFMTV said the women’s car was forced to halt near a service station.
The section of the motorway where the robbery took offenders favour place targeting rich or luxury cars -looking foreigners stuck in traffic jams:
When three people caved in the window of her taxi, in April a year ago, a Korean art collector was robbed of jewels worth €4m.
In August 2014, heavily armed men attacked a convoy of cars he headed in Le Bourget a convoy to belonging to some Saudi prince, stealing €250,000,
Before this month, the French authorities announced extra funding for the tourist industry, promising to install more surveillance cameras in regions of the capital targeted by robbers.
