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German Circus Tent Goes Missing

DW staff (sp)January 7, 2005

Thieves who struck in a town in the German state of Hesse this week made away with an unusually large haul: an entire circus tent. Luckily for them, the operation didn't involve waking any big cats.

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Police are still looking for the culpritsImage: dpa

The circus tent, worth €250,000 ($330,000), belongs to a Vaudeville theater and can house up to 600 spectators. When thieves absconded with the tent, it was lying packed on a trailer in a fenced-in yard in the village of Münster in southern Hesse.

Apparently, the burglars were well-prepared. Police said that they probably pried an iron gate off its hinges and drove into the yard with a truck to carry off the tent.

The bandits' booty consisted of several pagoda-shaped tents, 14 air motors for inflatable castles, and expensive lighting equipment, including flood lights and a lighting control console.

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