The leader of Bygdepride Anbjørn Steinholm Frislid, says many volunteers lined up to get the flag back before the big feast day during rural pride. He is very disappointed with the vandalism, even if he is not surprised. Volunteers mobilized to bring up all the flags. Like here in Ørsta. Photo: Tare Reklev Øverbø, Bygdepride checking the monitoring camera the traditional parade started at 15, and therefore it rushed to get all the flags fixed. The organizer estimates that there were nearly 2,000 people in the parade. Photo: Arne Flatin / news The police are contacted, and they have started investigations. They have no suspects in the case yet. And then we examine whether the places can have video surveillance, says operations manager Renate Solheim Lysvik in Møre and Romsdal police district. Volunteers fix the flag in Volda. Photo: Hild Nordal Patrol has examined seven different places. They have also received reports that it should have happened in private gardens. – We have notified that with private flagpoles, but we have not confirmed that, she says. – How serious are they looking at this? – It is not good when the village celebrates, has put in a lot of work and pleased to the day, and then there is someone and destroys the effort they have put in, says the operations manager. The mayor of Volda, Sølvi Dimmen (Sp), ready for pride parade. Photo: Arne Flatin / news The mayor of Volda, Sølvi Dimmen (Sp) also looks seriously at the case. – It is very sad that one cannot respect that there are different views on things without being done vandalism. Become a common tenant in rural pride, Anbjørn Steinholm Frislid is ready to celebrate despite the police investigating the flagship. Photo: Arne Flatin / news Anbjørg Steinholm Frislid in Bygdepride says There may be talk of about ten flags on municipal flagpoles. – I was a little shocked. But we also experienced Sunday that more of our flags disappeared, he says. That case was also reported to the police by the municipality of Ørsta. He also says that they have experienced a similar quarter of a year since they started the rural pride in 2018. – We have become quite used to it happening. We have flags that have disappeared a quarter of a year, but I have never seen it as organized and violent as what happened last night, says Frislid. Flagline cut on flagstong in Ørsta. Photo: Tare Reklev Øverbø/Bygdepride Difficult many of the flags that have been taken down night to Saturday, a great effort has been made to reduce, says the rural pride boss. He thinks the event is disappointing. – I think it’s sad. And I do not see how this flag can provoke so much that one has to tear it down and do guilty of crime, damage, to get it away, he says. Several flags have come up. Like here in Ørsta. Photo: Tare Reklev Øverbø/Bygdepride He states that there was a pride parade and a large folk party in brilliant sunshine in Volda anyway. – We want only open and diverse villages where everyone feels at home. The flag is then an important symbol for us, he says. Published 10.05.2025, at. 12.13 Updated 10.05.2025, at. 17.11
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