Multi-million jewel heist in Cannes value 100 million euros

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An armed man has stolen jewels worth 40 million euro (£34m, US$53m) from an exhibition at the Carlton Hotel in the French Riviera resort of Cannes.
Officials say the hold-up took place on Sunday morning, in the hotel where Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film "To Catch A Thief" was shot.
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The value of jewels stolen in a dramatic theft in the French Riviera resort of Cannes has been raised to about 103m euros ($136m; £89m).
The figure was given by a French prosecutor. It would make the Carlton Hotel raid one of the biggest gem robberies in Europe this century.
An armed man seized the gems from an exhibition of diamonds by the jeweller Leviev on Sunday morning.


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