Eventually Baron Cohen emerges and we take up position on a hotel balcony one sunny afternoon in Cannes.

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There was the chimpanzee and the tigers and dangling his child briefly from a hotel balcony.

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Suchen thought of Walter wandering the strange town, searching for a friendly face on a restaurant patio or a hotel balcony, and tried to convince herself that she had agreed to the coffee because of the helplessness that an old man could not erase from his face.

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He was shot dead at the age of 39 as he stood on the balcony of a hotel in Tennessee.

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That is how it looks from the balcony of a small hotel in Cannes this morning.

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Reports of sexual assault and even gang rape have been recorded across India, including a British tourist jumping off her balcony in Agra in March to escape potential assault from a hotel owner.

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She said the man would not leave so she locked the door and jumped from her balcony to the level below, injuring her leg, before fleeing the hotel.

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She told police he would not leave so she locked the door and jumped from her balcony to the level below, injuring her leg, before fleeing the hotel.

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It is, in truth, a lousy hotel, but the view on race day is splendid and so it was there that I stood on the balcony and watched the race unfold.

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