Thanks to Hungarian-American cooperation, a bell stolen from Jásztelek Church in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county has been returned to Hungary after 21 years, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said.
Péter Szijjártó reported on his official Facebook page that the bell will be returned to Jásztel within days. The bell, cast in 1937, was stolen in September 2001 from the tower of the local Our Lady of Snow Church.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade wrote: An investigation at the time yielded no results, but after more than twenty years in Louisiana, a member of the local Hungarian community noticed a bell adorned with the familiar inscriptions in an artifact. a store.
Hungarian diplomacy was also involved in the story from here, and the investigation team was set up in cooperation with the FBI, which first identified and then seized the church bell of Havas Bolgodaszoni, believed to have been lost.
Minister wrote.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Notice received in February 2022 Through the Antiquities Protection Unit of the Hungarian Police “About a bell with an inscription of Jásztelek “.
The technical inspection body was able to prove the theft and unauthorized export from the state, then collected documents and declarations of ownership and made them available to US investigative agencies. In cooperation with the Hungarian Police Antiquities Protection Unit, it was possible for the FBI to seize the stolen bell.
