If you didn't see the first one:
I a$$ume the gems were in$ured....
"$53 million in jewels stolen from Cannes hotel; Third such theft in city this year" by Thomas Adamson | Associated Press, July 29, 2013
PARIS — A staggering $53 million worth of diamonds and other jewels was stolen Sunday from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, in one of Europe’s biggest jewelry thefts in recent years, police said.
One expert noted that the crime follows recent prison breaks by members of the notorious ‘‘Pink Panther’’ jewel thief gang.
Gee, how convenient for the script.
The hotel in the French Riviera was hosting a temporary jewelry exhibit over the summer from the Leviev diamond house, which is owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev.
Are you flipping kidding?
A police spokesman said the theft took place around noon, but he could not confirm local media reports that the suspect was a single gunman who stuffed a suitcase with the gems before making a swift exit. The spokesman spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter on the record.
Readers, it really is a script, with government leaker and all.
You can believe what you want, readers. You can believe crap corporate media if you want. All I know is I am sick of shit I don't care about, mind-manipulating propaganda scripted and staged. Distorted at best, complete fabrications at worst.
I'm sorry I no longer believe in my Globe, readers. Maybe it's all God's honest truth, but they blew it with the endless lying.
Anyhow, back to the duh, duh-duh, duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh (a film by Shawn Levy?) ....
The Carlton is on the Promenade de la Croisette that stretches a mile and a half along the French Riviera, and is thronged by the rich and famous throughout the year. The hotel’s position provides a beautiful view of the sea and an easy getaway for jewel thieves along the long stretch of road.
Well, one anyway (sigh).
‘‘It’s a huge theft. Any time you talk about a heist with many millions of dollars it turns heads and feeds the imagination,’’ said Jonathan Sazonoff, US editor for the Museum Security Network website and an authority on high-value crime....
Yeah, I'll bet! Who imagined this cock-and-bull piece of crap cover story?
In May, Cannes was struck by two other highly publicized jewelry thefts during the famed film festival.
In the first one, thieves stole about $1 million worth of jewels after ripping a safe from the wall of a hotel room. In the second, thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive hotel and grabbed a De Grisogono necklace that creators said is worth $2.6 million.
Wow, these are good movies! Outsmarted 80 guards, huh? Awesome movie, hey!
So much for the tyranny of $ecurity!
Sazonoff said police would probably look into whether Sunday’s theft is linked to recent prison escapes by alleged members of the Pink Panther jewel thief gang.
Probably look into? Probably?
Another gang of ex-soldiers like the Zetas, huh?
Give us a frikkin' break!
It's ALL STAGED FALSE FLAGS and SCRIPTED PSYOPS, folks!
And they called it "news."
On Thursday, gang member Milan Poparic escaped his Swiss prison after accomplices rammed a gate and overpowered guards with bursts from their AK-47s, police said. He is the third member of the Pink Panthers to escape from a Swiss prison in as many months, according to Vaud police.
I gue$$ that's why all the money-junkie criminals hide their ill-gotten loot there.
So much for the security of Swiss prisons, 'eh?
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Why do I smell an in$ide job?
"Diamond theft estimated at $136 million" Associated Press, July 30, 2013
He's pulling a $ilver$tein!
PARIS — Wearing a scarf to mask his face, the gunman held up at least three security guards and fled the luxury Cannes hotel roughly a minute later with $136 million in diamond jewelry, more than twice the initial estimated worth of the loot.
And you Frenchies were all in a huff about the veil on Muslim women!! And what is with FRENCH SECURITY GUARDS FALLING DOWN on the JOB?
What the phoque???!!!
The simple, speedy theft is the biggest jewelry robbery in years. Police had previously said Sunday’s theft at the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel had netted $53 million worth of treasure. Philippe Vique, an assistant prosecutor in the Riviera town of Grasse, said the Dubai-based organizer of the diamond show had since raised the value based on a more complete inventory.
The suspect somehow got in through the hotel’s locked French doors, which open onto Cannes’ famed Croisette promenade, then held up the participants of the show with a handgun and fled on foot.
Yeah, he SOMEHOW got through the locked doors, duh, duh-duh, duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh!
And as he was holding up the participants(??), what the phoque were the security guards doing?
The holdup took about a minute, all with three private security guards, two vendors, and a manager of the exhibit on hand, Vique said. No customers were present at the time. ‘‘He took a bag containing a briefcase and a small box, and then fled by another French door on the inside,’’ Vique said. ‘‘He left on foot . . . it was very fast.’’
Oooooh, I see.
The bag contained rings, earrings, and pendants, Vique said. As the suspect began his getaway, a few jewels spilled out of the bag of loot and were quickly recovered.
Oh, no, the Pink Panther is a CLUMSY CAT!!
I didn't know this was a COMEDY!!!!
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Interesting how the whole Israeli owner angle and Pink Panther gang aspect was left out in this follow-up, huh?
Related:
"Thieves take $1m in jewels at hotel near Cannes festival" Associated Press, May 18, 2013
PARIS — Thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and fled with about $1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday.
Commander Bernard Mascarelli, a police spokesman for the city of Nice, said the robbery at the Novotel hotel occurred in the room of a representative of Swiss-based watch and jewelry maker Chopard.
The crime occurred 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 steal designer bags, shoes, and clothes.
Gee, what a coincidence?
French cops question any of the hotel staff?
The jewelry was ‘‘very probably’’ in the hotel in connection with the festival, Mascarelli said. Chopard is a festival sponsor and has loaned jewelry to A-list film stars who walk up the festival’s red carpet under the rapid-fire flashes of photographers’ cameras. This year model Carla Devigne and actress Julianne Moore walked the carpet in Chopard gems.
Mascarelli said he did not know the exact type of jewels or their exact value. ‘‘Numbers have been put forward that we’re still trying to verify, but the figure of $1 million . . . we’re in that range,’’ he said.
Jean-Michel Caillau, the prosecutor leading an inquiry, said the theft appeared to have occurred at 2:30 a.m. Friday.
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"Police detain 31 people in $50m Belgium diamond heist; Large number of diamonds found" by Raf Casert | Associated Press, May 09, 2013
BRUSSELS — Unlike the brilliant thieves in ‘‘Ocean’s Eleven,’’ it appears that those behind the clockwork-precision, $50 million diamond heist at Brussels Airport may not get a Hollywood ending.
I've stopped laughing because this is fart-in-your-face insults from the AmeriKan media.
After three months of virtual silence on the matter, authorities struck this week, detaining at least 31 people in a three-nation sweep and recovering so many diamonds from the loot Antwerp traders lost that they are still figuring out the exact value.
Officials said that among the people held in Belgium, France, and Switzerland on Tuesday and Wednesday are some with violent criminal pasts; the one person held in France is believed to have been one of the robbers at the airport. The evidence seized includes large sums of cash, precious stones, and luxury cars.
‘‘It was a total surprise for us,’’ said Caroline De Wolf of the Antwerp World Diamond
Center, whose traders lost millions in the Feb. 18 heist. ‘‘But we were delighted when we heard.’’
Six to eight people were detained in Geneva, and 24 in and around Brussels. It was unclear exactly what roles each suspect may have played.
Some 250 policemen were involved in the dawn raid in the Belgian capital, and many of the two dozen suspects were being interrogated late Wednesday. It could take at least another day before it’s clear how many will be placed under arrest, said Anja Bijnens, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office.
Perhaps the most important discovery was in Geneva of stones that could immediately be linked to the cache spirited away from the airport.
That theft ranks among the biggest diamond heists of recent times, and many liken it to the plot of the 2001 Vegas heist movie, ‘‘Ocean’s Eleven,’’ which stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon, for its clinically clean execution.
‘‘In Switzerland, we have found diamonds that we can already say are coming from the heist, and in Belgium large amounts of money have been found. And the investigation is still ongoing,’’ said Jean-Marc Meilleur, a spokesman for the Brussels prosecutor’s office. He said police had also found luxury cars.
Meilleur was scant on detail, yielding no clues as to how police got on the trail of the suspects.
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Nor would any more be forthcoming from my Globe.
Also see: Federal Reserve Robbed of $1.2. Million
Anybody check the Pink Panther's pockets or look for prints?
Those used to called trailers.
THE SEQUEL:
"Jewelry heist at Cannes hotel raises questions; Police hadn’t been alerted to monthlong show" by Jamey Keaten and Lori Hinnant | Associated Press, July 31, 2013
PARIS — The diamond show was staged on the ground floor of a Cannes hotel that thieves had targeted before — and which, in fact, had featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic ‘‘To Catch a Thief.’’ The guards were few and unarmed, and nobody thought to tell the police about the tens of millions worth of gems on display for more than a month.
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
As more details emerged Tuesday, questions grew about how the collection was so vulnerable, and how a single thief with a handgun could make off with one of the biggest hauls in history — $136 million in jewels — without firing a shot.
He had help from inside?
It was the second time in a week that unarmed guards were overwhelmed by jewel thieves. At a Swiss prison near the French border, a member of the notorious ‘‘Pink Panther’’ gang escaped after accomplices rammed a gate and overpowered unarmed guards with bursts from Kalashnikovs.
Private security guards are generally prohibited from carrying weapons in France and Switzerland — that’s reserved for police — but special authorizations can be granted when high-value assets are at stake.
Is this about getting them armed?
Did you see that comedy?
‘‘The public carrying of weapons — even by security guards and police officers — is much less visible throughout Europe than it is in parts of North America,’’ said Keith Krause, program director of the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, a nonprofit that monitors global views of weapons.
‘‘Given that civilian possession of weapons is much less available, they’re unlikely to have weapons because they’re unlikely to be facing people with weapons.’’
?????
Zakaria Rami, a union representative at the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes who has worked there for 16 years, said organizers didn’t formally advise police of the show. Only a few guards hired by the jeweler provided security in a hotel showroom where the robber struck Sunday....
At HIGH NOON!
The show was far from inconspicuous: One-story tall, bright pink banners covered the front facade of the Carlton, one of the most famous hotels on La Croisette — the best-known seaside promenade in Cannes.
A big "hit-me" target!
Rami wasn’t at the Carlton in 1994 when a gunman opened fire at the hotel, injuring a guard before making off with $45 million in jewels. That robbery prompted the city to suspend the gem shows that draw jewelers to the French Riviera each summer, hoping to attract travelers with money to burn. The ban expired years ago, and the shows resumed.
To all those suffering and in miserable poverty on this planet, that is an in$ult.
The jewels on display routinely catch some unwanted attention. Rami said he can think of four or five other major robberies in his time in Cannes, which appears to be a favorite target this year — in May it was struck by two heists during the Cannes Film Festival.
‘‘For security in a hotel that was housing such a collection, it’s more a question that can be asked of the victim — and its insurer — than of police services,’’ said Commander Bernard Mascarelli, head of the judicial police in nearby Nice, whose Bureau for the Repression of Banditry is leading the inquiry.
Yeah.
The owner of the collection, Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, has said little about the theft, but said in a statement Tuesday that the company was working with police and insurers....
The plot thickens!
Philippe Vique, an assistant prosecutor in the Riviera town of Grasse, said there was no break-in at the hotel, and the private security guards were not armed. The gunman went in through French doors and exited less than a minute after the hold-up, he said. Rami, the union official, said the suspect was not pursued.
Because the notoriously professional thief dropped some of the jewels?
Alain Bauer, a leading French criminologist and security expert, said the show’s organizer ‘‘could have called on the police — that in this specific case would have put armed officers in place.’’
But then they may have stopped the robbery, and Leviev wouldn't be getting an insurance check.
Police haven’t drawn any specific links between the Cannes heist and the escape Thursday of Milan Poparic, the third member of the Pink Panther group to break out of a Swiss prison in recent months.
‘‘But the Pink Panthers are known for these brazen acts of rushing into a place, quickly intimidating the people there, and getting the loot and making their getaway,’’ said Scott Andrew Selby, coauthor of ‘‘Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History,’’ about a 2003 heist in Belgium.
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Anybody check the banks for the suspect?
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Yeah, the first one was better, but why stop making them? Jewels still haven't been found.
I see a "Cur$e of the Pink Panther III," don't you?
