Tuesday, July 31, 2012

"Knights" rob medieval festival in France


A gang of thieves dressed as knights and armed with a sword and an axe robbed the organisers of a medieval festival in northeast France Monday and made off with 20,000 euros ($25,000), police said.

The theft took place in the early hours of Monday as organisers were counting revenues from the festival in Bitche, near France's border with Germany, a spokesman for regional police in Lorraine said.

"According to witnesses, there were three or four individuals, masked and wearing medieval attire," the spokesman said.

Click here to read this article from AFP

See also the French article: Bitche : hold-up d’un autre temps à la fête médiévale