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Between Roissy and Paris, these road pirates who target rich tourists

2024-02-13T16:59:59.557Z

Highlights: Between Roissy and Paris, these road pirates who target rich tourists. Taking advantage of traffic jams on the A1 motorway, teams of thieves rob foreigners traveling in taxis or VTCs. As the Olympic Games approach, the police are on alert. “I was chatting quietly with my lady, sitting next to me, when I heard a thud. I thought a motorcycle had hit a side mirror while weaving between cars. Then, suddenly, the passenger side window flew into a thousand pieces”


INVESTIGATION - Taking advantage of traffic jams on the A1 motorway, teams of thieves rob foreigners traveling in taxis or VTCs. As the Olympic Games approach, the police are on alert.


I was chatting quietly with my lady, sitting next to me, when I heard a thud.

I thought a motorcycle had hit a side mirror while weaving between cars.

Then, suddenly, the passenger side window flew into a thousand pieces.

A hand then passed through the window before grabbing the

Hermès bag

that Madame had kept at her feet, on the floor, and which could not be seen from the outside.

The attack lasted barely three seconds, it fell on us like lightning”

 : Franck, a private driver, is still stunned when he recounts the raid which targeted his boss, a rich Chinese businesswoman whom he was transporting. , on January 24 in the early morning, on the A1 motorway.

“As I have done many times, I went to Roissy at 7 a.m. to pick up Madame when she got off her flight from Shanghai.

A baggage handler had taken his three trunks which had traveled in the hold.

Due to their size, we had two…

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Source: lefigaro

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