- Title: Security alert in Cannes 'false alarm'
- Date: 20th May 2017
- Summary: CANNES, FRANCE (MAY 20, 2017) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VIEW OF THEATRE STEPS AND CROWDS OUTSIDE PALAIS DES FESTIVALS PEOPLE WALKING CROWD WAITING AND TAKING PICTURES MAN AND WOMAN WAITING CANNES POSTER AND CROWD MAN COVERING HIS EYES POLICE ON BALCONY WITH BINOCULARS, FRENCH FLAG IN FOREGROUND POLICE ON BALCONY (SOUNDBITE) (English) DANIELE MICHELS, FROM RTL TV, SAYING: ''I think we have been waiting here for a long time and I was told that somebody left his bag and then the policeman and the demineur (bomb disposal) I don't know how you call it in English ones coming for to have a look if there is a bomb went inside.'' MEN WAITING POLICE WITH DOGS POLICE IN FRONT OF VAN WITH GUN (SOUNDBITE) (English) THOMAS SOTINEL FROM LE MONDE, WHO WAS INSIDE AT THE TIME OF THE ALERT, SAYING: ''No no it was very calm and organised no no there was no panic at all they were in a hurry but not that much.'' (SOUNDBITE) (English) JORDAN HOFFMAN, FROM THE THRILLLIST, SAYING: ''There is a thing called a mega phone public address system, they're not that expensive, all Cannes needs to do is to hire, buy a mega phone at any sport supply store and explain to people what's going on and then you wouldn't have pushing, shoving potentially knocking over 'we want you to do this we want you to do that' - problem solved.'' VARIOUS PEOPLE WAITING OUTSIDE VARIOUS POLICE WIITH GUNS GUN POLICE MAN HOLDING GUN GUN IN POUCH CROWDS BEING ALLOWED INTO THEATRE CROWDS MOVING (SOUNDBITE) (French) SECURITY PERSONEL, DENNY (WOULDN'T GIVE SURNAME), SAYING: "It was someone from the staff who saw it, that's all. But now it's done." POLICE AND FORMER US VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE LEAVING AND WAVING AND GETTING INTO CAR GORE WAVING AND CAR CLOSING CAR LEAVING
- Embargoed: 3rd June 2017 20:22
- Keywords: alert security palais Cannes film festival
- Location: CANNES, FRANCE
- City: CANNES, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Film,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA0016HN7G3R
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Journalists and moviegoers were evacuated from the Palais Des Festivals on Saturday (May 20) following a security alert at the Cannes Film Festival.
A press officer for the City of Cannes explained to Reuters that there was a suspect package inside the Debussy cinema, one of the theatres the festival screens in.
The police headquarters told Reuters it was a false alert, while a security person at the gate confirmed there was an alert but had finished.
Some fans were frustrated with being made to wait outside and with a lack of information about what was going on.
Ex US- vice president Al Gore, who was in Cannes to promote his latest environmental documentary, was seen leaving the Palais shortly after the alert was declared over. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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