STEVE INSKEEP, Host: European authorities are hunting for a French armored-car driver who made off with more than $17 million in cash last week. The man may be a criminal, but he's also a rising star, as Eleanor Beardsley reports.</s>ELEANOR BEARDSLEY: Xavier Richard is a public prosecutor in the city of Lyon, where the heist took place.</s>XAVIER RICHARD: (French spoken)</s>ELEANOR BEARDSLEY: For NPR News, I'm Eleanor Beardsley, in Paris.
French police are conducting a nationwide search for a security driver who vanished with more than $17 million in cash from a bank in the central city of Lyon. The driver, who had worked for the company for 10 years, had picked up the money on Thursday.