When Cannes rolls out the red carpet May 13, it also will be on red alert. The festival long has been a target for petty crooks and big-time criminals drawn in by the rich and famous that descend on the city each May, but security this year is taking a more serious turn. Following the gruesome Charlie Hebdo shootings in and around Paris that shocked the world in January — and a subsequent series of several smaller attacks against religious targets — the country is on edge.
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