05/29/2013

Cannes heist gang grabs hotel safe with $1m worth of movie star bling

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Thieves have ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1m (€780,000) worth of jewellery.

The late-night burglary happened just hours after the screening of Sofia Coppola's Bling Ring, a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities.

The well-planned robbery at the Novotel hotel took place in the room of a representative of Chopard, the Swiss-based watch and jewellery maker and festival sponsor that was hosting a gala event in a far ritzier hotel around the same time, officials said.

The jewellery was "very probably" in the Novotel in connection with the festival, said Cmdr Bernard Mascarelli, a judicial police spokesman in nearby Nice, though he didn't know who it might have been intended for.

 

Source: http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/cannes-heist-gang-grabs-hotel-safe-with-1m-worth-of-movie-star-bling-29277496.html

May 29, 2013 2:21:14 PM | Applications, fashion, News, Safety, Security, storage

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