While some of the Cannes incidents were relatively minor — a stolen purse, a lifted wallet — several other festival goers endured terrifying confrontations with intruders breaking into their hotel rooms.
At last year’s festival, Graham King, the Oscar-winning producer of The Departed, returned to his villa on the grounds of the ultra-luxurious Hotel du Cap, and discovered burglars in the midst of a break-in. The thieves fled, but not before blasting King with pepper spray and grabbing the purse of one of his colleagues as they ran out.
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