( CNN ) -- A man arrested at Cannes Film Festival after firing a gun loaded with blanks during a live TV interview is due to appear in court Sunday , Cannes police said . Canal+ was interviewing Christoph Waltz , who won the Academy Award for best supporting actor in `` Django Unchained , '' and actor Daniel Auteuil when a man fired two shots from a starter pistol on Friday , according to authorities and the French television station . The man allegedly had a dummy grenade in one hand , and footage and images of the incident showed Waltz and Auteuil being taken offstage and attendees scrambling for cover . The 43-year-old suspect , who fired twice into the air , told police he believed in God and wanted to change the world , a Cannes police spokesman said Saturday . He has been examined by a psychiatrist who concluded that he `` is not mentally ill , '' the spokesman said . Many police officers were present at the time of the shooting and the suspect was caught immediately , he said . The court is expected to consider the case against the man , who remains in custody but whose name has not been made public , on Sunday , he said . Celebrity sightings at Cannes . 'Fake grenade ' The incident , which occurred on the Canal+ set along the popular Promenade de la Croisette -- the main boulevard in Cannes -- briefly interrupted the show . But Canal+ anchor Michel Denisot came back on the air a short time later and told viewers : `` The shots fired were blanks and the grenade was fake . That 's what we know . '' No injuries were reported . Pictures of the arrest obtained by The Hollywood Reporter showed police wrestling the man to the ground . The man said to a woman next to him , 'If I were you , I would n't stick around here ' , '' Denisot later told France 24 . It was far from the typical scripted fare of the Cannes Film Festival , where chaos plays out on screen and not among the audience . The annual festival brings together the rich and famous from around the world for movie screenings and glittering parties . Stolen jewels . Earlier the same day , police in Nice said that more than $ 1 million in jewels belonging to the Swiss firm Chopard had been stolen from a hotel room in Cannes . Chopard later said in a statement that the value of the stolen pieces was `` far lower than those in the figures circulating in the media . '' The theft of the jewels occurred Thursday night , on the second day of the festival , which opened Wednesday and runs through May 26 . Commandant Bernard Mascarelli , of the Nice police , said the jewelry was stolen from a room in the Suite Novotel hotel on Boulevard Carnot in Cannes . A Chopard employee who was staying in the room left it for several hours to go to dinner , he said . She returned to discover the whole safe containing the jewels had been unscrewed and taken away . No detailed description has yet been given of the stolen jewels , but a Chopard spokeswoman said they were not part of the firm 's `` Red Carpet Collection 2013 '' and were not due to be worn by any actresses in Cannes . Chopard , which is an official sponsor of the festival , has provided the Palme d'Or trophy awarded to the director of the best feature film for the past 15 years . The trophy features a 24-carat gold palm attached to a piece of cut crystal . CNN 's Chelsea J. Carter , Pierre Meilhan and Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report .
A 43-year-old suspect is due to appear in court Denisot later , a police spokesman says . The man fired 24 rounds from a starter pistol on a Canal+ set in Christoph Waltz , police say . Cannes and Chopard were doing a live interview at the time . Canal+ anchor tells viewers : `` The shots fired were blanks and the grenade was fake ''