Swedish man jailed for stealing crown jewels in broad daylight

The district court of Eskilstuna announced on Friday that a swedish man sentenced to prison for four years and six months, for stealing seventeenth-century crown jewels from a cathedral in broad daylight.

The crown jewels had been stolen at the end of July 2018 from the Cathedral of Strängnäs, about 70 kilometers West of Stockholm. It is the funeral crown, and the Orb of in 1611, died Charles IX. of Sweden, as well as the crown of his 1625 deceased wife, Queen Christine of Holstein-Gottorp. Do you have an estimate of the equivalent of more than six million euros – for the Church, but not in money defined value.

The robbery had an eye witness. Tom Rowell was sitting in sight of the Cathedral at lunch, when he saw two men out of the building race. They were rushed to a near Malaren lake, waited for the motor boat, he reported to the newspaper “Aftonbladet”.

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