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Not so chivalrous knights make off with festival cash

PARIS — A gang of thieves dressed as knights and armed with a sword and an axe robbed the organizers 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 organizers 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.

They struck one of the organizers with the handle of the axe and escaped with the cash. Police have opened an investigation and interviewed several witnesses, he said.

The "Medievales Europeennes de Bitche" is one of France's largest festivals of medieval culture and last year was attended by more than 11,000 people.

(AFP)

<관련 한글 기사>

지역 축제에 중세 기사들이 나타나서…

기사 복장을 하고 칼과 도끼로 무장한 강도들이 월요일 프랑스 북동부에서 열린 중세 시대 축제의 책임자들에게서 25000달러를 훔쳐 달아나는 사건이 발생했다.

지역 경찰은 축제 책임자들이 축제 수입을 계산하고 있을 때 이들이 나타났다고 말했는데 목격자에 따르면 이들은 마스크를 하고 중세 복장을 입은 4인조라고 한다.

이 4인조는 책임자 중 한 명을 들고 있던 도끼 손잡이로 내려치고 현금을 가지고 달아났다. 현재 경찰은 수사를 진행 중이다.



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