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| Gunman steals jewels worth €40m from Cannes exhibition | Gunman steals jewels worth €40m from Cannes exhibition |
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| An armed thief stole jewels and diamonds worth an estimated €40m (£35m) in a daring heist on a jewellery exhibition in Cannes on Sunday morning. | |
| The gunman walked into the luxury Carlton hotel in broad daylight and reportedly headed for a specialist diamond stand in the exhibition, due to run until the end of August. | The gunman walked into the luxury Carlton hotel in broad daylight and reportedly headed for a specialist diamond stand in the exhibition, due to run until the end of August. |
| According to the local newspaper Nice Matin, the thief stuffed a suitcase with gems that were being shown by the prestigious Leviev diamond house, owned by the Moscow-based Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. | According to the local newspaper Nice Matin, the thief stuffed a suitcase with gems that were being shown by the prestigious Leviev diamond house, owned by the Moscow-based Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. |
| The Carlton hotel is on the exclusive Promenade de la Croisette that stretches a mile and a half along the French Riviera. | The Carlton hotel is on the exclusive Promenade de la Croisette that stretches a mile and a half along the French Riviera. |
| The raid comes just over two months after the Cannes film festival was struck by two high-profile jewelry thefts. In the first, robbers stole about £650,000 worth of jewels from a safe in a room at the Suite Novotel. The jewelry was taken from the room of an employee of Chopard, the Swiss-based watch and jewellery maker that loans bling to A-list stars walking the red carpet at the festival. | |
| In the other theft. a De Grisogono necklace said to be worth €2m was stolen from a luxury hotel. | |
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