• Home
• Channel: Current Affairs
• Thieves Confess to Stealing Brass From Great Church in Hungary

Thieves Confess to Stealing Brass From Great Church in Hungary

• 14 Jul 2023 1:54 PM
• Hungary Around the Clock

Two men who vandalised the Great Church in Debrecen in February have been formally charged with theft, Hajdú county police announced on Wednesday.

A 50-year-old man and his 32-year-old accomplice stole copper windowsills from the building of the Great Church on the night of February 9.

The older man prised open three window-sills with a pair of pliers, damaging several others, while the younger man kept a lookout for police.

They sold the windowsills at a local junk shop on the following day.

The older man was detained by a police patrol on February 13, one day before his partner was arrested. Both suspects confessed to the crime.

Police retrieved the brass windowsills from the junk shop.

• How does this content make you feel?
• I love it
• I like it
• I dislike it

• Thieves Brass Church

XpatLoop Media Partner

Hungary Around the Clock

Since 1995 Hungary Around the Clock has proven to be one of the most comprehensive sources of daily English-language news about Hungary. It covers ongoing domestic politics and foreign relations, as well as business and economic matters. For a free trial of HATC visit www.hatc.hu and click on 'Free Trial Subscription’.

Explore More Reports

Everyone Must Act for Change in Hungary, Says Péter Magyar at Mass Demo He Called in Budapest

• 8 Apr 2024 7:13 AM

Everyone must act for change, Péter Magyar said at a demonstration he called in Budapest on Saturday. “We are the nuclear bomb, the Hungarian people,” Magyar said, adding that the solution could not just be expected from him.



Protest Highlights Plight of 7,000 Children in Hungary Living in Children’s Homes - "Most Will Never Be Taken in By A Family"

• 19 Feb 2024 12:32 PM

Civil groups organised a demonstration in support of victims of child abuse and for “a healthy society” at Heroes’ Square in downtown Budapest on Friday evening.



Update on Paedophile Scandal in Hungary: PM's Press Chief Describes Media Reports on Orbán & Reformed Bishop as “Stupid”

• 19 Feb 2024 12:29 PM

The prime minister’s press chief on Monday decried “left-wing press reports” saying that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “also held [Reformed Bishop] Zoltán Balog responsible for the clemency” granted by President Katalin Novák to a man convicted for helping to cover up child abuse.



Paedophile Scandal Update: Head of Hungarian Reformed Church Pushed for Pardon That Led to Fall of President Novák

• 19 Feb 2024 6:19 AM

Direkt36 and Telex have learned from several independent sources that head of the Hungarian Reformed Church Zoltán Balog, who has long been a confidant of Hungarian president Katalin Novák, played a crucial role in the presidential pardon which led to Novák’s resignation.