{"id":3661,"date":"2016-11-22T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2016-11-22T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:30:16","slug":"easy-pickings-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3661\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Pickings in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC reports<\/a> on a robbery in France:<\/p>\n

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Masked men have robbed two Qatari women and their driver on a motorway north of Paris, taking valuables worth \u20ac5m (\u00a34.5m; $5.6m), police sources say.<\/p>\n

The sisters had just left Le Bourget airport in their Bentley on Monday evening when they were forced off the road and sprayed with tear gas.<\/p>\n

“Everything in the vehicle: jewels, clothes, luggage” was taken, a police source told AFP news agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s some advice from somebody who lives in Paris: don’t go around with\u00a0\u20ac5m of valuables on you.<\/p>\n

The section of the motorway where the robbery took place is favoured by criminals targeting luxury cars or wealthy-looking foreigners stuck in traffic jams:<\/p>\n

In April last year, an east Asian art collector was robbed of jewels worth \u20ac4m when three people caved in the window of her taxi.<\/p>\n

In August 2014, heavily armed men attacked a convoy of cars belonging to a Saudi prince, stealing \u20ac250,000, as he headed in a convoy to Le Bourget<\/p>\n

Last month, US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was tied up and robbed at gunpoint of jewellery worth up to \u20ac6m in a luxury apartment in the heart of Paris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not that I’m excusing armed robbery, but common sense has given way to vanity here, hasn’t it? \u00a0Getting in a taxi with\u00a0\u20ac4m of jewels about you? \u00a0These people are asking for trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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