To investigate the incident, a group of police officers came to the scene. Their original assumption was that hunters for color metals were involved. However, head of the local Jewish community Karpin believes the act of vandalism was not to get scrap metal. He says the vandals stole the plaque only because Bruno Schults was a Jew. Karpin’s scenario is based on the fact, he says, that prior to the Jewish Easter unidentified persons broke the wall of the Jewish cemetery.

The present act of vandalism is all the more regrettable because it has been committed in the run-up to the third international Schults festival due to open May 26. The memorial plaque was initiated by the Ihor Menko center for Polish studies on the heels of the second Schults festival in Drohobych. Bruno Schults was shot by a Gestapo officer during a raid on the Jews in WWII.