New | Tear gas attack on 27 Chinese tourists in Paris, robbed by gang aboard airport bus

Twenty-seven Chinese tourists were assaulted on Tuesday by half a dozen men as they boarded a bus that was to take them to Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, a French police source said.

The assailants stole some pieces of luggage and injured two of the tourists, who were taken to hospital for treatment.

“They sprayed the driver with tear gas and hit two tourists,” the source said.

The value of the goods stolen could not immediately be established.

Attacks on Chinese, Korean and Japanese tourists are frequent in the French capital as robbers believe they carry large sums in cash and their suitcases are stuffed with luxury goods purchased in Paris.