$1m in jewellery stolen at Cannes film festival

This weekend, stars may sport a little less bling and the parties could be a little less sparkly. According to France 24 of ITV news, thieves broke in the hotel room of a Chopard employee, where the jewels were being kept in a safe in a hotel room. The robbers ripped the safe off the wall and left with everything in it, about $1 million in jewels. Those jewels were meant to be lent to the stars. Chopard is one of the official sponsors of the film festival. This isn’t the first time that there’s been a robbery at Cannes. In 2009, a lone gunman walked into a Chopard jewelry store and made off with $8 million worth of bling. Also in 2009, a group of armed men wearing Hawaiian shirts and masks riding motorbikes nabbed $21 million in jewelry from a Cartier store in Paris.