Back in February, thieves managed to steal almost all of Leng Tch’e‘s gear and merch while they were on tour in Ostrava, CZE. Now, the group have revealed that they have gotten some of it back.

The band said the following:

“So…
After 5 long months, part of our stolen equipment is finally back in our possession. This is how it all went down…

A couple of weeks after we got our van broken into and our gear stolen in Ostrava, we received a mysterious e-mail from an even more mysterious, disposable e-mail address. This person claimed he bought our gear from some junkies, and that he didn’t know it was stolen. In reality it was the owner of a pawnshop who couldn’t sell our gear to anyone because everybody in the Czech Republic and beyond knew it was stolen. (This is one of the reasons why you have to keep sharing posts about stolen equipment!!!)

In the meantime we got in touch again with the Ostrava police department who gave us instructions on how to handle this situation. Since they don’t speak much English, all communication went through our friend from the Guttural Gore Grind Mafia festival in Ostrava. Communication was rather slow and difficult, going back and forward for days.

The pawnshop owner wanted us to pay €2000 to get our own gear back (!!!). We obviously weren’t going to do this so we set up a meeting with our contact who was joined by an undercover police officer, and the owner of the pawnshop to get our stuff back. This guy had the audacity afterwards to call us dishonest because he didn’t want to give the stolen gear back to its rightful owners…

A big thank you goes out to our good friends Anxur Moravian and Dalibor who invested so much time and energy together with the Ostrava police department in coordinating this operation, and to our amazing fans who exposed our social media post to over 300.000 (!) people: we cannot thank you enough. This would not have been possible without you.

We are still missing Olivier‘s drum pedals (Pearl Demon Drive) and a lot of effects pedals, as well as a box of “Razorgrind” gatefold vinyl and t-shirts. So please keep an eye out for those. More info at this link: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155246687431430&id=7030041429

Thank you once again and we’ll catch you on the road.

Leng Tch’e“

After Leng Tch’e‘s show at the Guttural Gore Grind Mafia festival in Ostrava, CZE, thieves managed to steal almost all their gear and merch, including a guitar, bass, amps, etc. The band made the below Instagram regarding that: