A video has emerged from Sweden of vandals stealing rainbow Pride flags and setting them on fire.

Officials in Sodertalje first raised the rainbow flags outside Sodertalje city hall in support of the Pride festival in neighboring Stockholm on Monday 25 July.

The morning after, the flagpole ropes had been cut and the flags were gone.

But now a video has emerged of the vandals stealing the flags. Their faces blurred, it shows a group of men cutting down the rainbow flags and gathering them in a nearby valley.

Dousing them in gas, they then show setting the Pride flags on fire.

Police are investigating the criminals in the video.

Sodertalje, which does not have its own Pride, quickly reinstated new rainbow flags but were forced to take them down overnight ‘to prevent this from happening again’.