Security and Politics at Cannes

 CANNES, France – At 8:30 a.m. on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival, just before the first daily screening, attendees were greeted with a disquieting sight: four police vans were parked in front of the festival headquarters and numerous gendarmes, some in riot gear, had taken up position on the street and even next to the red carpet. We festival-goers are used to security checks at Cannes.

 Guards electronically check your bags whenever you enter the headquarters, a massive building called the Palais.

 Another guard checks or rather glances at the contents of your bags, while a third passes an electronic wand over your body, rituals that grow lax as the festival wears on. (Similar security checks are common at studio screenings in the United States.)

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