French police on Thursday were hunting a trio of thieves who made off with a handbag containing 5 million euros (US\$5.4 million) worth of Chanel jewels in a smash-and-grab on the highway between Paris and Charles de Gaulle Airport. A Taiwanese art collector was traveling in a taxi on Wednesday afternoon through a long tunnel \_51\_ for robbery attacks on tourists stuck in traffic when the thieves smashed a car window and \_52\_ her handbag. The 1.3km Landy tunnel is taken by most people arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport and heading into Paris and is the ideal spot for smash-and-grabs. “It is often \_53\_ delinquency. They aren’t afraid of anything, know the area and escape through emergency exits,” the source said. A driver distracted and talking on his cellphone, a handbag left on a passenger seat or luxury cars carrying tourists with possibly wads of cash on them are all easy \_54\_. In February 2010, Christina Chernovetska, daughter of the then mayor of Kiev, was the victim of a similar robbery when a bag she said contained jewels worth 4.5 million euros was stolen from her. Saudi prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd, the multimillionaire son of the late King Fahd, \_55\_ victim to a spectacular armed raid on his convoy in Paris in August last year, in which 250,000 euros and diplomatic papers were stolen.