Chopard jewellery stolen at Cannes film festival

Luxury jewellery house Chopard says that jewellery stolen from a local hotel in a pre-dawn heist on Friday was not destined for stars at the Cannes film festival, and its value below figures quoted. Earlier reports said the value of the heist was more than $1 million.

Man held after gun attack

A man was arrested on Friday after causing a scare at the Cannes Film Festival, where he attacked a TV studio with a gun loaded with blanks and a dummy grenade, police and witnesses said.
There were no casualties in the incident, and the TV channel, France's Canal +, resumed broadcasts after a break of several minutes.

The suspected assailant fired twice in the air as he approached the temporary studio, set up on the Croisette seafront for special coverage of the film festival, they said.
"He said to a woman next to him 'if I were you, I wouldn't stick around here'," said Michel Denisot, the programme's presenter.
"The police intervened. He had a hand grenade. There were no bullets in the gun and the grenade was a fake," he told viewers.

There was a brief moment of panic in the crowd around the seafront studio, but no-one was hurt.
Marcel Authier, in charge of public security in the local Alpes-Maritimes department, told AFP that the arrested individual was a 42-year-old man.
"It's someone mentally unstable who was immediately arrested," Authier said.

Police sources said the man also carried a switchblade knife and had shouted: "I'm doing this in the name of God" during his arrest. 

Security for the event is high, and was stepped up after the April 15 bomb attacks in Boston.

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