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PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A Prague Archdiocese official says nearly all of the Czech Republic's 5,500 sacral facilities were robbed over the years since the communist regime collapsed.
Vladimir Kelnar of the Prague Archdiocese said since the 1989 regime collapse, nearly 90 percent of those sacral facilities were targeted with hundreds of thousands of artifacts going missing from such sites, the Czech news agency, CTK, reported Monday.
"About a half of Gothic and Renaissance works of art and roughly one-third of baroque artifacts have disappeared (from Czech churches) in the past 20 years," the diocesan heritage preserver said.
A total of 51 robberies at sites containing artifacts took place in 1989 after the regime collapse, followed by 611 thefts in 1990 and peaking at nearly 1,000 thefts in 1991.
"Since then the number of thefts of church and cultural items has been gradually decreasing. On the contrary, the number of thefts of artifacts in flats and recreational facilities has increased," senior police officer Jaroslav Zahalka told CTK.
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