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| Cannes film festival suffers $1m jewellery theft | Cannes film festival suffers $1m jewellery theft |
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| More than $1m (£650,000; 777,000 euros) worth of jewels have been stolen from a hotel in Cannes, French police say. | |
| The jewels were to be loaned to celebrities who have arrived on the French Riviera for the famous annual film festival. | The jewels were to be loaned to celebrities who have arrived on the French Riviera for the famous annual film festival. |
| They were stolen from a safe in the Novotel Hotel room of an employee of exclusive Swiss jewellers Chopard. | They were stolen from a safe in the Novotel Hotel room of an employee of exclusive Swiss jewellers Chopard. |
| Chopard is one of the official sponsors of the festival, which opened on Wednesday. | Chopard is one of the official sponsors of the festival, which opened on Wednesday. |
| The theft happened on the same day that the festival was shown The Bling Ring, a new film by director Sofia Coppola about some high-school students who find out when celebrities are attending red carpet events in order to break into their homes and steal their designer clothes, bags, and shoes. | The theft happened on the same day that the festival was shown The Bling Ring, a new film by director Sofia Coppola about some high-school students who find out when celebrities are attending red carpet events in order to break into their homes and steal their designer clothes, bags, and shoes. |