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The newspaper's employees have established that the burglars have stolen three computer monitors. It is not known yet if any documents or valuable goods were stolen.

As Daukste comments, the editorial office is located in open-space office premises and the criminals who broke in could easily have stolen many more goods and it is rather surprising that they did not take any more equipment or valuable goods. Although the newspaper's management does not suspect anybody in particular, it is believed that the breaking in was organized for the purpose of intimidation as the attack does not resemble a simple breaking in of drunken thieves.

The breaking into Neatkariga editorial office took place last night: between yesterday night, when the newspaper's employees finished working on today's issue, and at around 10 a.m. this morning, when the first employees came to work and established the damage. The newspaper's editorial office is located in an office building at Cesu Street with CCTV surveillance, however, there is no security camera surveillance inside the editorial office's premises.

Police is currently working at the scene.

Daukste underlined that although the editorial office has been attacked, the newspaper will come out on Monday.

Losses for the Neatkariga newspaper from its vandalized offices could be several thousand lats, as Editor in Chief Anita Daukste informed LETA.

Daukste said that the damages are still being tabulated, adding that "this was no ordinary theft."

Armands Puce, chairman of the board of the daily's publishing house Mediju nams, told LETA that six glass doors were smashed and three computer monitors and one laptop stolen.

The culprits had entered through the emergency exit door, connected to the adjacent building's stairwell. This indicates that the break-in was carefully planned, as the vandals eluded the main entrance's surveillance cameras, said Puce.

Puce, like Daukste, believes that this was no ordinary theft, and that there were other motives, as the editorial offices were demolished. Daukste added, however, that it appears that no specific documents were stolen.