The Dhaka Times Desk Every year in May, the 'Cannes Film Festival' is held in the French resort city of Cannes. It is the most prestigious and one of the most popular film festivals in the world after the Oscars. It is appalling that shootings have taken place at such a prestigious festival. The shooter was arrested by the police, although actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil, who were at the scene in self-defense, ran to safety.
Austrian Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz and French actor Daniel Auteuil were being interviewed on French television channel Canal Plus when a man fired two blank rounds.
Eyewitness Arthur Leigas told Reuters that bodyguards jumped on top of the shooter and pulled him out, laying him on the ground. The bodyguards also asked everyone to run and leave the scene as the man had a grenade in his hand.
The authorities then said that the police arrested the shooter on the spot, that the grenade in the man's hand was fake and he was also carrying a knife.
According to the police, the shooter is mentally ill.
When panic spread in the Cannes festival due to the incident of blank shots, the assembled guests and actors and actresses started running for their lives. At this time, even though the broadcast of the program was interrupted, Michel Denisot, the presenter of Canal Plus, appeared on camera again in a short time and announced to continue the program!
Immediately after that, back on the set of the show were Christoph Walz, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the category of 'Django Unchained', and 'Inglourious Basterds' star Daniel who is serving as a member of the jury board at the Cannes Film Festival.
On the third day of the start of the 12-day world's largest film festival, two security incidents occurred.
Earlier, jewelery worth more than 1.4 million was stolen from a Novotel hotel room in Cannes. It was reportedly stolen from the rented room of an employee of Swiss jewelery company Chopard. The theft happened on Thursday night. It is known that this ornament was reserved for celebrities attending the Cannes Film Festival.
But Chopard said the jewelry was overpriced and not meant for these actresses. However, they declined to provide details.
Reference: indiatoday.intoday.in
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