Police in Haskovo are searching for a 24-year-old man from Mezdra suspected of stealing money from a church and a chapel in the village of Yerusalimovo, in Lyubimets municipality. The regional police directorate said a total of €417 was taken from the two sites.

Investigators said the man is known to police. They said he got into the church through a broken window and took €300 from the donation box and €100 from candle sales.

He got into the village chapel the same way and took €17.

In August, a chapel in the village of Svirachi, near Ivaylovgrad, was robbed. Money was stolen and icons were damaged. In the same month, a man was sentenced to one year in prison on charges brought by the Sofia District Prosecutor's Office for stealing money from the Monastery of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in the village of Kutina, near Sofia.