The thieves were part of a 15-21 member gang detained on March 5.

The suspects may have been responsible for 88 attacks between January 2017 and March 2018.

They targeted taxis travelling from airports to central Paris and cars with foreign licence plates.

Their method was to approach cars stranded in traffic jams, look in the passenger area for packages and then use a pointed stone, shaped for that purpose, to break one of the windows and then flee with the loot.