Valuable religious artefacts stolen from church

Case information
Incident date
Country
Norway
Place
Vallset
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Theft
Place of Incident
  • Church
Bias Indicators
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
Reported to Police
  • Unknown
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown

Unknown perpetrators broke into the church in Vallset and stole valuable religious artefacts.

Thieves broke into the Vallset church by smashing a window in the sacristy. Here they smashed the safe and made off with old and irreplaceable candlesticks, vases, communion chalices, communion cups and a number of other unique silver and silver-plated artefacts.

Recently two tractor mowers, each worth NOK 200,000, were also stoen from the cemeteries.

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