€1m reward in Cannes heist

An affiliate of Lloyds of London is offering €1m reward for information leading to a diamond collection stolen at gunpoint from a jewel show in Cannes.

The jewels belonging to the Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev were on display at the hotel featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief when a gunman walked into the ground floor show, threatened a handful of unarmed guards, then disappeared down a side street with the €102.3m cache, police have said.