Qatari women robbed of £4.3m valuables in Paris motorway hold-up

Two Qatari women were held up on a Paris motorway and robbed of valuables worth more than €5m (£4.3m) in the latest robbery targeting wealthy visitors to the French capital.

The women, in their 60s, had just left Le Bourget airport north-east of the capital on Monday when their chauffeur-driven Bentley was held up by two masked men who sprayed them with teargas, the Guardian reports, citing a police source.

The source said the robbers stole “everything in the vehicle: jewels, clothes, luggage”.

The source said the robbers stole “everything in the vehicle: jewels, clothes, luggage”.

Last month, the US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was tied up and robbed at gunpoint in a luxury apartment in 
the heart of Paris.