An Air France stewardess has been arrested after stealing jewelry, cash and credit cards from hand luggage of 150 business class passengers while they slept, say officials.
French prosecutors opened a case file on Sunday, two days after the cabin crew member was arrested at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport and confessed to theft, a judicial official said, confirming a report in the daily Le Figaro.
According to the newspaper report, the 47-year-old stewardess went through business passengers' bags on long haul flights from Paris to Asia, mostly to Japan.
She committed around 150 thefts from March 2009, a theft spree she attributed to "financial problems".
Police were alerted in January after five passengers on a flight to Tokyo lost the equivalent of 4000 euros ($A5964) in foreign currency.
"The dishonest employee was gradually identified by examining passenger listings on flights where thefts were committed," Le Figaro quoted a police source as saying.
The stewardess was also the subject of internal discipline due to reliability problems, the newspaper reported.
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