Jewels destined for red carpet swiped in Cannes

Thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1m (€780,000) worth of jewellery that may have been intended for the red carpet stars.

Cmdr Bernard Mascarelli, a judicial police spokesman in the nearby city of Nice, said the robbery at the Novotel hotel on Thursday night took place in the room of a representative of Swiss-based jeweller Chopard.

The crime occurred just hours after the screening at Cannes of a film, based on a true story, about teens who broke into the homes of stars in Los Angeles to swipe designer bags, shoes and clothes from their homes.