– Many volunteers have mobilized and the police are contacted after what happened, says renter in Bygdepride Anbjørn Steinholm Frislid. He is very disappointed, even if he is not surprised. Volunteers fix the flag in Volda. Photo: Hild Nordal Checking the monitoring camera It will be a great day for Bygdepride on Saturday. The traditional parade starts at 15, and therefore it is urgent to get all the flags fixed. The police are contacted, and they have started investigations. – The patrol has mapped out the removed flag. And then we examine whether the places can have video surveillance, says operations manager Renate Solheim Lysvik in Møre and Romsdal police district. The police have investigated seven different places. – 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 that has put in, says the operations manager. Been common Anbjørn Steinholm Frislid in Bygdepride promises that there will be a folk party in Volda today. Photo: Bygdepride 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 Øvrebø/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. He states that there will be Pride parade and a big 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. Several flags have come up. Like here in Ørsta. Photo: Tare Reklev Øvrebø/Bygdepride Published 10.05.2025, at. 12.13 Updated 10.05.2025, at. 13.16
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