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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. | 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 stars appearing at the famous annual film festival on the French Riviera. | |
They were taken from the hotel room of an employee of exclusive Swiss jewellers Chopard in the early hours of Friday morning. | |
Police say the thieves ripped the safe containing the jewels from a wall of the room at the Novotel hotel. | |
Festival officials said the Palme d'Or was not among the stolen items. | |
The event's top award is also made by Chopard, which is an official sponsor of the festival. | |
Celebrities choosing the Swiss firm's gems for their red carpet appearances at this year's festival include Julianne Moore, Lana Del Rey and Cindy Crawford. | |
The theft happened a few hours after the festival was shown The Bling Ring, a new film by director Sofia Coppola. | |
The film is about teenagers 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. |