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103 million euros were stolen in Cannes
European news agencies report new details of the loud robbery of the exhibition of jewelry on the French Riviera. The raid incredible in impudence occurred on Monday morning at the Karlton Hotel, which is considered the most prestigious in Cannes.
The whole action, suggests Figaro , could be the work of one person. An unknown robber, armed with a gun, ran into the hotel’s exhibition hall, grabbed a briefcase stuffed with jewelry, and was that. The thief also left the place of the crime on his two. Neither a few guards, nor sellers, nor two managers were able to contrast the impudence of the raider.
According to initial estimates, from the Cannes exhibition of the famous jewelry house Levaev, jewelry was stolen in the amount of about forty million euros. However, later businessmen from the Emirates who organized the event calculated the damage more carefully and voiced a different figure - 103 million euros. In all likelihood, the robbery will be the largest crime of this kind over the past hundred years.
The French police have already assumed that the international gang “Pink Panther” may be involved in the raid, which specializes just in similar crimes. One of the leaders of this community nicknamed Bosniyts exactly last Thursday escaped from a Swiss prison. The raid investigation was entrusted to the Cannes Office to combat banditry.
The French press, discussing the details of the robbery at the Karlton Hotel, predictably compares it with two large jewelry thefts that occurred in the Riviera region only two months ago during the Cannes Film Festival. Recall that on May 17, Ghopard jewelry for the amount of a million euros were directly in the safe were taken out by unknown thieves from the Novotel Hotel. And six days later, a diamond necklace, estimated at 2.6 million euros, disappeared from a private reception in the resort town of Antibe.
Also, observers also come to mind of cultural parallels - the “Mediterranean elegant robbery” has long been a kind of suck cinema. Starting from Hitchcock’s painting “Catch a Thief” (1955), through the Hit of Lelo “Happy New Year” with Lino Ventura in the title role, and from there-directly to the blockbuster “12 friends of Osane” with Viennan Kassel as an elusive crook-aristocrat, who steals only from love for art.
That's just, as it turns out, in order to make a robbery of the century, such a roll is not necessary.