The German government team studying the Gurlitt works has identified five that were looted or sold under duress, and another 153 that it suspects were looted.
|
|
And there's certainly a gap between the ways that works looted during World War II — which often dominate international newspaper headlines — are discussed and the discussion of works looted under other circumstances.
|
|
There are international laws against buying looted items, and organizations such as the International Council of Museums have issued warnings and guides about what kinds of artifacts are most likely to be looted.
|
|
But protesters burned vehicles, looted businesses and attacked government buildings.
|
|
Men in uniform looted and burnt their homes, he said.
|
|
It looted some historic sites to help fund its operations.
|
|
Nigeria has struggled with corruption and looted funds for decades.
|
|
They ran away when xenophobic locals looted and destroyed it.
|
|
They looted shops, banks and damaged property in many cities.
|
|
The base collapsed and was looted by the insurgents. Dec.
|
|
The separatists claimed to have looted weapons during the raid.
|
|
These were looted while the regime was still in control.
|
|
A report published by the Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE) concluded that over 10,20163 works of art looted by the Nazis were sold by museums instead of being returned to their rightful owners.
|
|
It wasn't initially clear if the militants had looted the cash.
|
|
A boutique on the Rue Rivoli was broken into and looted.
|
|
Tracking what has been looted from them, though, has proved difficult.
|
|
Stores in Managua were looted over the weekend, Reuters witnesses said.
|
|
The LNA has looted property from displaced families and tortured critics.
|
|
"Jerusalem Museum to Display Looted Near East Artifacts," one headline read.
|
|
Several Irish media outlets reported that the supermarket had been looted.
|
|
Also there's a lot of stuff in the house that's looted.
|
|
The violence spread to the nearby freeway, where lorries were looted.
|
|
The government denies its forces have executed prisoners or looted homes.
|
|
Provocateurs who attacked police officers and looted stores made headlines. Gov.
|
|
The official list of "looted art" still includes some 63,000 objects.
|
|
Coincidentally, Chinese art is now routinely looted from Western art museums.
|
|
Muslim-owned shops and mosques were looted, burned down, and vandalized.
|
|
Palestinians looted dozens of the greenhouses almost immediately upon Israel's exit.
|
|
They also realized that several accompanying pieces had already been looted.
|
|
The walls were scorched; whatever hadn't been looted lay in ash.
|
|
Protesters have looted dozens of gas stations and supermarkets across Mexico.
|
|
Bavaria has said previously that the paintings were not looted art.
|
|
"My shops get looted a few times a year," he said.
|
|
Under Jacob Zuma, South Africa's former president, Eskom was systematically looted.
|
|
Haji has bigger problems than broken windows and looted doors, though.
|
|
When he returned, our house had been looted — everything was gone.
|
|
The Owsley Museum may well be acquisitioning looted, even very recently looted, antiquities — and doing so at the expense of American taxpayers, since donations to the Owsley Museum entitle the donor to claim a tax deduction.
|
|
Gurlitt's collection is known for including several verified artworks looted by the Nazis, and when Gurlitt died in 2014, the museum inherited his collection along with the responsibility of restituting the works that were in fact looted.
|
|
In the fighting, food warehouses have been looted and aid workers killed.
|
|
People smashed windows, looted storefronts and threw objects at others and police.
|
|
Critics ask what he was doing while the country was being looted.
|
|
Security forces also discovered some arms and ammunition looted in the Oct.
|
|
Venice, Parma, Mantua, Modena and Milan were all looted by the French.
|
|
Some shops in the main area of the station were also looted.
|
|
Museums and libraries have been looted, books burned, artwork crushed — or trafficked.
|
|
Protesters have looted dozens of gas stations and supermarkets across the country.
|
|
Many Ethiopian artefacts have been looted; others are still in private hands.
|
|
France's President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to return looted artifacts to Africa.
|
|
Protesters looted businesses and burned a CVS, which led to Maryland Gov.
|
|
Synagogues were desecrated, shops were looted, and homes were destroyed or damaged.
|
|
Lying fallow for decades, the building was looted, flooded, rotted and squatted.
|
|
When Taliban fighters looted his chicken farm, he still refused to leave.
|
|
Her investigations are interesting, especially when questions arise over possibly looted art.
|
|
He also assisted in the restitution of art looted during the Holocaust.
|
|
The Taliban had looted Qayum's house and forced his family to flee.
|
|
The Benin Bronzes, some of Africa's greatest treasures, were looted in 1897.
|
|
But reputable antiquities dealers, while wary of handling looted works, remain sanguine.
|
|
Businesses were looted, riots erupted in the streets and thousands were arrested.
|
|
Ethiopia's demand has always been the restoration of those illegally looted treasures.
|
|
Palmyra's museum was looted and carvings bearing human figures were torn off.
|
|
It is among over 160 looted works belonging to Gottlieb and Mathilde.
|
|
Some groups — not all — are satisfied that it exempts the descendants of owners of art looted in World War II because it will not shield works looted from 1933 to 1945 by the German military or its allies.
|
|
"We've already realized it's going to be looted while we're gone," she said.
|
|
According to satellite imagery analysis the site was heavily looted throughout it all.
|
|
Can it still be looted from the rubble by people with ill intent?
|
|
Protesters burned cars, looted shops and closed much of the country with roadblocks.
|
|
Mobutu and his underlings looted the Congolese state until it could barely stand.
|
|
Villages had been looted and burned and crops destroyed, the U.N. monitors wrote.
|
|
During its decade-long hold on power, the party looted the country's coffers.
|
|
Warlords profit from extortion or by selling looted aid on the black market.
|
|
The Parliament building was set on fire, and shops and businesses were looted.
|
|
Its city hall was also set on fire and some shops were looted.
|
|
Events that saw buildings destroyed, neighborhoods wrecked, shops looted, and five lives lost.
|
|
They looted, set fires and dragged women out of cars to rape them.
|
|
They fear that the best in Italian civiltà is being looted by others.
|
|
Since then, my undocumented home has been ravaged and looted by security forces.
|
|
Cars were set on fire and shops looted, but no one was injured.
|
|
Stores were looted not far from the industrial park that's home to Marlin.
|
|
"It's a shame when we find new shipwrecks and you see them looted."
|
|
Many like him have discovered their houses were looted and left in disarray.
|
|
As hardcore groups of rioters looted shops and burned vehicles, police responded forcefully.
|
|
Almost 1,000 buildings, including churches, schools and health centers, were destroyed or looted.
|
|
How would a woman whose house was looted and destroyed rebuild her life?
|
|
A neighboring shop selling home goods such as plastic chairs was also looted.
|
|
Most of these pieces were looted from China centuries ago by foreign soldiers.
|
|
General Hifter's forces have looted and burned homes, and carried out summary executions.
|
|
Then he realized his grandfather must have looted them from Benin City, too.
|
|
During the 1977 blackout, businesses were looted and riots erupted in the streets.
|
|
Mobs looted, burned and vandalized shops, properties and vehicles, South African police said.
|
|
"A lot of Nazi-looted art ended up in Bavaria, and there is still a great deal to do there in terms of transparency, provenance research and restitution," said Anne Webber, co-chairwoman of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe.
|
|
Television stations, supermarkets, shops and homes were looted in Libreville on Wednesday and Thursday.
|
|
Damaged goods are left on a supermarket floor after it was looted in Caracas.
|
|
But even where their property has not been destroyed, possessions and wealth were looted.
|
|
All the while his cronies gleefully looted the country's public purse and diamond mines.
|
|
"I have already looted my grandchildren's college fund," Stone wrote on his website Monday.
|
|
Local news outlets reported several chicken farms around Cochabamba were looted early on Wednesday.
|
|
Over the three days of the summit, radicals looted shops, torched cars and lorries.
|
|
Cartoonist Thomas Nast caricatured Tweed as a corpulent, corrupt politician who looted the city.
|
|
Where do antiquities looted from archaeological sites by ISIS and other groups end up?
|
|
"Looking at this specific institution there were 13 pieces that were looted," he said.
|
|
They have seen their homes looted, property confiscated and districts overrun by Assad supporters.
|
|
Some won't leave in fear of their home being damaged or looted, Cuite said.
|
|
"My white friends asked me what I looted, what did I get," he said.
|
|
Some museums do appear open to returning looted objects permanently, rather than lending them.
|
|
"The Germans used the Polish museums as depositories for looted art," explained Ms. Webber.
|
|
Now it lies empty and looted; many of his former neighbors have been killed.
|
|
It had burned down their houses, looted their shops, and blown up their shrines.
|
|
"Several offices at the MONUSCO headquarters were set on fire and looted," Kataliko said.
|
|
Briefly schools or outposts, many are husks, looted and desolate monuments to forgotten plans.
|
|
The work was looted by the Nazis and was later acquired by Hermann Goering.
|
|
The man who looted our house was a known informant of the secret service.
|
|
Satellite images show that the tell was heavily looted between 2003 and 2009, Molina wrote.
|
|
Hundreds of weapons were looted from the training center in Mogadishu as it shut down.
|
|
There were signs that the store had been looted before it was torched, Rivera says.
|
|
On Saturday, protesters torched businesses, smashed cars and lit them on fire, and looted stores.
|
|
There were reports that Shiite fighters forced Sunnis from their homes and looted their property.
|
|
Damage is seen in a supermarket after it was looted in Caracas on March 10.
|
|
As a neighbor of Syria, it is a major route for items looted from there.
|
|
Those government forces have raped and murdered civilians, recruited child soldiers, and looted civilian property.
|
|
We learned how looted art helped fund the initial war budget of the Axis powers.
|
|
Many properties have been destroyed, and many more looted — often by men wearing army uniforms.
|
|
Fabulous wealth makes anything possible including outfitting palaces with looted sculpture, mosaics and architectural elements.
|
|
Looted antiquities cool off for extended periods before being brought to market with falsified papers.
|
|
There is graffiti on them, people piss on them, and they've been looted for years.
|
|
We went to looted grocery stores [and took] all the images of burned-out buildings.
|
|
As is often the case with looted art, the painting's provenance is complicated and obscure.
|
|
American leaders time and again have hypocritically looted the international system for purely nationalist ends.
|
|
He found his tractor in Mosul amongst a pile of goods looted by the militants.
|
|
In Maracaibo, the country's second-largest city, more than 500 businesses were looted and destroyed.
|
|
At least seven people were killed and dozens of businesses were looted during the unrest.
|
|
Some looted, loading trucks with pilfered village goods, searching dead bodies for jewelry and cash.
|
|
Mirzakwal said that a medical clinic in Kunar had recently been looted by Taliban fighters.
|
|
"The paintings looted from the Netherlands are an important part of our research," she said.
|
|
Both times, on losing, Vancouver descended into manic violence with stores looted and cars burned.
|
|
Both Cambodia and Indus Valley sites (in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India) have been heavily looted.
|
|
He describes Nur as a "thug" who may have looted millions from the city's budget.
|
|
Angry mobs looted, burned and vandalized shops, properties, and vehicles, after violence flared on Sunday.
|
|
The brothers said at the time that they had not realized the piece was looted.
|
|
I've seen items that were looted from Palmyra that went up for sale in Raqqa.
|
|
It emerges as yet another buyer of unprovenanced manuscripts, increasing the market for looted material.
|
|
Rafiq's family-run furniture shop and house were looted by Hindu men during the riots.
|
|
Now for Sale on Facebook: Looted Middle Eastern Antiquities And another yikes, from Karen Zraick: Ancient treasures pillaged from conflict zones in the Middle East are being offered for sale on Facebook, researchers say, including items that may have been looted by Islamic State militants.
|
|
Along the way their trunks of clothes and household goods were looted by French occupation troops.
|
|
Hobby Lobby was warned the objects may have been looted, specifically from archaeological sites in Iraq.
|
|
The pirates caught up with the catamaran and boarded the ship, which they searched and looted.
|
|
Enraged drivers blocked roads, looted shops and occupied petrol stations; six people died in the unrest.
|
|
The RISD Museum has started the restitution process for a bronze sculpture looted during colonial violence.
|
|
Most of it was looted, stolen, bought under duress or borrowed and never returned, they said.
|
|
Rioters wearing masks, threw rocks at police, set cars on fire and looted shops in Rinkeby.
|
|
Consequently, even large institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art have accidentally purchased looted items.
|
|
On Thursday, some fans looted shops there after Algeria beat Ivory Coast in the quarter-final.
|
|
Among the recent attacks in Diffa, supplies and essential medicines have been looted from health facilities.
|
|
When the revolution came, the hacienda was looted, its chapel burned and its water lines shattered.
|
|
Some residents have refused to follow evacuation orders because of fears their homes will be looted.
|
|
They report villages burned, possessions looted, women raped, and countless dead, included babies and small children.
|
|
They looted and relocated its artworks to Britain, and quickly traded these artifacts to Western markets.
|
|
By the end of the weekend, rioters looted, burned, and destroyed the festival in its entirety.
|
|
And these objects have often been looted from war zones, where their purchase funds continued violence.
|
|
The oligarch left Ukraine after PrivatBank, which he owned and, the authorities say, looted, was nationalized.
|
|
He ruled that the Grünbaum collection had indeed been looted and that any actions by Mrs.
|
|
Princeton asserts that it has carried out provenance research establishing that the manuscripts were not looted.
|
|
Africans shouldn't have to travel to Western museums to see the artworks looted from their continent.
|
|
They blame him for backing rebel groups that looted factories and sent their machinery to Turkey.
|
|
The scene of a looted shop where a charred body was found in Johannesburg, Sept. 4.
|
|
More than 1,000 businesses and 2,000 homes were looted, burned down or demolished, the mayor said.
|
|
Anticipating a shortage before legal sales even started, distributors had been stockpiling weed — and getting looted.
|
|
The owner's grandson identified it from a list of looted works that had been posted online.
|
|
The vase was believed to have been looted by tomb raiders in Italy in the 1970s.
|
|
Afterward, the crowd looted the building, setting fire to the adult education center and the post office.
|
|
Some of the remaining statues were looted, but some statues of the Buddha were buried for protection.
|
|
The loan could signal a future permanent restitution of looted art and artifacts from former German colonies.
|
|
This is ironic: Yemen's antiquities have been looted regularly by Europeans and Americans since the 19th century.
|
|
Analysts say the Shabab are rebuilding themselves with weapons looted from recent attacks on African Union peacekeepers.
|
|
In particular, the community is vigilant about any item they feel might have been looted or stolen.
|
|
Hundreds more of the artworks still await a ruling as to whether they were looted by Nazis.
|
|
Llamas, as Fortnite players know, are supply drops that can be looted for weapons, gear, and materials.
|
|
Under Mr Zuma's administration, corruption thrives, state resources have been looted and democratic institutions have been undermined.
|
|
They then allegedly looted a pawn shop and a Foot Locker in the same area, WPLG reports.
|
|
Conflict Armament Research (CAR) said most Islamic State weapons were looted from the Iraqi and Syrian armies.
|
|
South African media reported that cars were set alight and shops looted over two days of unrest.
|
|
The German government appointed Hans-Jürgen Papier as president of its advisory panel on Nazi-looted art.
|
|
Evelyn Matthei, mayor of the upscale Providencia neighborhood, said dozens of shops had been damaged or looted.
|
|
Citizens of Afrin also had their homes looted and occupied by Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army groups.
|
|
Streets are no longer cleaned; once-upscale storefronts are boarded shut; even Zabar's is vandalized and looted.
|
|
Robbers have looted the crypts, but tourists still come to see the reliefs cut into the rock.
|
|
Both groups have occupied, looted and damaged schools during the conflict, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
|
|
Friday night saw more intense rioting, and some stores were looted in the Schanze district of Hamburg.
|
|
You've gone to great lengths to recreate the artifacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq. Why?
|
|
Buildings burned, businesses were looted, and eventually the National Guard was called in to control the populace.
|
|
They shared accounts of soldiers who raped women, stole money or cellphones at checkpoints, and looted stores.
|
|
Wayne Jenkins, the group's ringleader, including bags of pills looted from pharmacies during the April 2300 riots.
|
|
They were purchased on the open market but only after they had been looted by British troops.
|
|
Hispanics, including the half-a-million Guatemalans and 2628,28500 Salvadorans new to Los Angeles, looted the stores.
|
|
Most of the homes' windows have been shattered, their doors busted in, their interiors looted by scavengers.
|
|
According to some scholars, the menorah remained in Rome until the Vandals looted the city in 455.
|
|
Cutts confirmed that a warehouse had been looted last week and said another had been bombed recently.
|
|
About 4,000 Cherokee died in that long march, stumbling westward in rags after their homes were looted.
|
|
It's the logic of the person who steals the TV from the looted store during the riot.
|
|
The drugstore that was looted and burned during the riots after his funeral is six blocks away.
|
|
One fighter from a rival group said the looted goods had been left unguarded in the chaos.
|
|
Until now, public money had helped to search for looted items only in German museums and libraries.
|
|
Fred Trump was hauled before a congressional panel investigating whether he had looted government money through fraud.
|
|
Among the problems they have found is that the Gestapo often distributed looted works to multiple libraries.
|
|
During the revolution, and immediately following the fall of Egypt's police forces, al-madfuna was extensively looted.
|
|
But Italy has its own critics who accuse the country of downplaying its collection of looted art.
|
|
Not that a terrifying legacy or potentially looted collection has prevented the Africa Museum from raising funds.
|
|
The Greens bought their ancient items on the antiquities market, which brims with looted material and forgeries.
|
|
Plus, the Smithsonian acquires an Arthur Jafa video, and a Nazi-looted painting is returned to its heirs.
|
|
The mattresses and contaminated medical supplies were looted from the facility after it was overrun by a mob.
|
|
Some amphorae may have already been looted — they are not infrequently seen decorating restaurants along the Albanian coastline.
|
|
An SDF fighter sleeps in a looted bedroom, which serves as another temporary position along Raqqa's eastern front.
|
|
Shkreli was found guilty, also, of paying them back with funds looted from a biotech company of his.
|
|
After nearly two years and $2 million spent on the project, the report identified only five looted works.
|
|
These were saved when the seed bank was looted in 20073, just after the US-led invasion began.
|
|
Hundreds of businesses closed early, and people took shelter, but only a handful of stores were actually looted.
|
|
Its glitzy hotels and restaurants are where the money looted from the rest of the country is spent.
|
|
Leftover technology from the aliens has been looted and used to advance society and prepare for another invasion.
|
|
Eskom, the bloated, looted national electricity firm, can no longer reliably keep the lights on or factories humming.
|
|
Many politicians use money looted from the state to pay off local leaders who deliver votes en masse.
|
|
Businesses in the downtown began cleaning up Thursday after protesters busted windows and looted some properties, police said.
|
|
At least five food stores were looted overnight, with police sources saying some 20 people had been arrested.
|
|
Instead, cultural institutions can partially restitute looted objects with long-term loans of between 25 and 99 years.
|
|
Islamic State militants ravaged and looted the areas they occupied, leaving behind houses, mosques, and churches in ruin.
|
|
Police officers stand in front of a damaged storefront which was looted in the wake of the blackout.
|
|
Looting pits may be quite deep, and all material located above the looted artifacts is destroyed or lost.
|
|
Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the self-styled emperor who ruled from 1966 until 1979, looted it even more thoroughly.
|
|
Heavily armed police and soldiers with tanks guarded the looted supermarkets and others that remain closed on Wednesday.
|
|
For the first time, protesters have been arming themselves with bows and arrows looted from university sports offices.
|
|
The Benin bronzes, as they're known, were looted by the British in 1897 while they destroyed Benin City.
|
|
She asked him questions about maps that the attackers looted from the mission that showed the annex's location.
|
|
Since the disasters, stores have been looted, residents have gone hungry and there have been mass jail breaks.
|
|
The other four, including "Prodigal Son" are copies that represent works looted during the French conquest of Spain.
|
|
Health care workers have been robbed, looted, beaten and murdered in Central African Republic, Congo, Lebanon and Myanmar.
|
|
They were later looted during the French Revolution, but were returned virtually undamaged to the family in 1880.
|
|
Those artifacts — mostly sculptures and relief plaques — were looted from royal palaces during a British expedition in 1897.
|
|
Suspicions are also growing that those who looted Tunisia during decades of dictatorship will escape accountability and punishment.
|
|
More western governments have pledged to return stolen African artifacts that were looted from the continent centuries ago.
|
|
It said scores of indigenous protesters had looted a shop in the town of Lasso on Monday morning.
|
|
The resulting damage — burned and looted businesses, blockaded streets, cars set ablaze — has left Haitians fearing the worst.
|
|
Some art collectors have stepped forward to try to find out whether their art was looted from Jews.
|
|
The government claimed soldiers looted weapons and took a number of hostages; 27 of the dissidents were arrested.
|
|
By the time the power came back on, 25 hours later, more than 1,600 stores had been looted.
|
|
He said that pro-government forces had looted his city when they retook it from the Islamic State.
|
|
Mohamad found out from a neighbor that we knew one of the men who had looted our house.
|
|
AMSTERDAM — A cathedral in Germany has agreed to return a Nazi-looted painting to the heirs of Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus, an Austrian Jewish couple from whom it was stolen in 1941, according to the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, which has spent the last eight years negotiating the restitution.
|
|
Its mechanism is believed to have been looted during the Roman period and has never been found, Daskalakis said.
|
|
Whoever looted the house stole mostly electronics, including a laptop that Ocampo used for school work, and game systems.
|
|
By Monday, rumors that Ventura was alive after the crash, looted and left for dead propagated the digital airwaves.
|
|
Praising law enforcement, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens said Sunday that those who vandalized and looted businesses would be punished.
|
|
The Bishangari Lodge, on Lake Langano about 200 km south of Addis Ababa, was looted and torched this week.
|
|
Mr Kagame's claim to be acting out of self-defence looked increasingly hollow as Rwandans systematically looted Congolese minerals.
|
|
There are display cases where things used to be, but right now they're almost entirely empty, looted long ago.
|
|
Maduro has illegally looted billions of dollars from his own people, giving him no standing to negotiate Venezuela's future.
|
|
While most protesters that night were peaceful, some businesses throughout the city were also looted or set on fire.
|
|
The second biggest pharmacy was looted last week by a mob seeking medicine and basic household goods, say managers.
|
|
Second, customs agents around the world must be trained to identify looted items and prevent them from crossing borders.
|
|
Looted antiquities lack a paper trail; buyers can often ascertain whether goods are stolen simply by doing their homework.
|
|
The army was deployed after locals destroyed property and looted shops, state-run Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation said earlier.
|
|
In January, Argentina gave 4,500 artefacts back to Peru and Ecuador, many probably looted by huaqueros from northern Peru.
|
|
Gadhafi lived long enough to see the finer edifices of his empire smashed, overrun and looted by angry citizens.
|
|
Many health facilities have been damaged or looted during the conflict and medics and drugs are in short supply.
|
|
What little money the state has is being looted to buy influence in the power struggle within the PAIGC.
|
|
"If you had any doubt about looted art, would you really lend it to a Jewish museum?" he asked.
|
|
But he said, "If it's proven that this painting is looted by the Nazis, I will give it back."
|
|
Stores in Tolima, Quindio, Cundinamarca and Boyaca provinces were looted and 28 people were arrested, according to the police.
|
|
More than 200 factories owned by Chinese and other foreign companies were looted and set ablaze around the country.
|
|
And you witnessed those who looted the nomad girls' nose-rings: all in the name of the great lord.
|
|
The Brooklyn Museum is not the British Museum, which was recently asked by Ethiopia to return looted Maqdala treasures.
|
|
Tormented by claims that a national investment firm has been looted, his party is keen to change the subject.
|
|
I thought about making something that lost its provenance, by being looted and being sold on the black market.
|
|
The rest has been looted or the distributions overwhelmed by residents fearful that they would not get their share.
|
|
After the group's fighters were ousted from other Iraqi cities, officials found widespread destruction, looted homes and hidden bombs.
|
|
In addition to the fires, people broke into ATMs, overturned cars, looted supply trucks, and tore down speaker towers.
|
|
The United Nations has said they have been extensively looted during the war and religious buildings have been damaged.
|
|
The mayor of Dablo said the attackers burned the church, looted a pharmacy and some others stores and left.
|
|
Christie's says it is committed to ensuring that artworks looted during World War II are not offered for sale.
|
|
There is no excuse for this behavior and this unwillingness to return this work, which they know is looted.
|
|
Among these was a postwar catalog mentioning a looted Matisse of a seated woman from the Paul Rosenberg collection.
|
|
Thousands of Syria's ancient sites have been looted, honeycombed with looter's pits since the current conflict began in 2012.
|
|
The survivors were left with nothing after their homes were looted and $2.7 million in insurance claims were denied.
|
|
Some of the looted pieces were recovered, and a number of them will be on display in the pavilion.
|
|
Cyril Ramaphosa, Mr Zuma's successor, thinks it cost the country 1trn rand ($95bn) in looted funds and lost GDP.
|
|
The book, written by a rabbi in 22008 and later looted, explains the fundamentals of the Torah's 25.6 commandments.
|
|
MH: We know that ISIS has also looted objects from the ground and sold them on the black market.
|
|
The slippered feet, however, suggest a different actor, someone in possession of the looted head in his own home.
|
|
His warehouse contains stockpiles of old guns looted from Gaddafi's arsenals and now stored for use as spare parts.
|
|
In the clip above, the stars drive to a store being looted where they find three of Berry's character's kids.
|
|
They attacked and looted animals and food but as Sankara claimed responsibility he is going to be part of investigation.
|
|
The British Museum in London in 2018 also said it will return Benin bronzes looted by British soldiers to Nigeria.
|
|
Barrow said on Sunday that it appeared his exiled predecessor, Yahya Jammeh, had looted state resources after his election defeat.
|
|
Unlike Nazi-looted art, what was taken in the former colonies are not recognized as criminally obtained under international law.
|
|
The equestrian center lost several thousand dollars worth of property when it was looted during rescue efforts, according to KCAL.
|
|
Tensions had been high all day after riots on Friday night when radicals looted shops, torched cars and hurled objects.
|
|
And Aden's three ice-cream parlours were looted or bombed when rebels stormed the coastal city when the war began.
|
|
The assets themselves are often hidden behind opaque shell corporations, and following the looted money can take years of work.
|
|
Both works were part of a set of Nazi-looted paintings that were restituted to Bloch-Bauer's heirs in 2006.
|
|
The oilfields and archaeological sites that IS had looted to finance the world's most powerful jihadist movement provide a backdrop.
|
|
A central database contains an estimated 25,20133 missing, looted or identified objects -- paintings, drawings, antiquities -- from more than 15 countries.
|
|
The pair digitized the annotated catalogs and published them in 2014 on Lost Art, a database of Nazi-looted objects.
|
|
GlobalXplorer was created by "space archaeologist" Sarah Parcak and trains citizen archaeologists to flag potential archaeological sites or looted areas.
|
|
A group at DePaul University uses UAVs to monitor the Dead Sea and reveal archaeological sites that are being looted.
|
|
In the past, this system has both accelerated urban decline and looted the financial resources of ambitious but vulnerable families.
|
|
Since the Easter bombings, Muslim-owned shops and homes have been looted and vandalized in several parts of the country.
|
|
Police arrested nearly 210 protesters as rioters looted stores around the Champs Elysees and wrecked the high-end Fouquet's restaurant.
|
|
One of the beneficiaries was Brian Shivambu, who received 16 million rand of "looted" funds from VBS, the report said.
|
|
Three museums in Munich have restituted nine Nazi-looted pieces of art to the families of their original Jewish owners.
|
|
The miners responded with a series of protests during which stores were looted and at least 20 people were arrested.
|
|
Jason Derulo is the latest celebrity to have his house looted in a string of L.A. burglaries ... TMZ has learned.
|
|
"Any person who has cheated or looted the country shall be brought to the justice," Modi said in a speech.
|
|
Aid supplies had been looted in the Jonglei, Kajo-Keiji, Yei, Wau Shilluk and Mayendit areas in February and March.
|
|
A hacker stole into Bulgaria's tax agency and looted the personal data of every single working adult in the country.
|
|
At least two works on display have been confirmed as looted and attempts to identify their original owners are ongoing.
|
|
The protests have resulted in at least three deaths after a supermarket near the capital was reportedly looted and burned.
|
|
WFP lost 4,500 tonnes of commodities as well as vehicles, fuel, office and IT equipment when its warehouse was looted.
|
|
Under Mr. Nasheed, the government sought to recover $400 million that it said Mr. Gayoom and his associates had looted.
|
|
They allege he looted millions of dollars from Retrophin to repay the investors he had defrauded at his hedge funds.
|
|
But now no one — neither the government nor the Taliban — guarantees that the clinic will not be burned or looted.
|
|
There are also many reports regarding looted materials collected by Gulf citizens, with an emphasis on objects Islamic period objects.
|
|
Nigeria has struggled with corruption and looted funds for decades, but the watchdog unit has been on a lucky streak.
|
|
Speaking on Sunday to radio station RFM in Senegal, Barrow said that initial inspection indicated Jammeh had looted state resources.
|
|
Several hundred protesters poured onto Interstate 85, and some clambered onto trucks, looted their contents and set them on fire.
|
|
The only exceptions to this rule are artifacts containing human remains and cultural objects looted from Jewish families during WW2.
|
|
But this again was known in pre-Islamic times when some Hindu kings looted and destroyed temples to acquire wealth.
|
|
In other tech news, researchers say that Facebook groups are advertising looted antiquities from Syria, Iraq and other conflict zones.
|
|
Most of the fat-tailed Awassi sheep, bred to produce more milk and require less water, were looted and eaten.
|
|
In the capital, at least five subway stations and buses were set ablaze, while violent demonstrators looted supermarkets and pharmacies.
|
|
Supermarkets have been looted, and three people were killed by a fire in one on the night of the 22019th.
|
|
This premiere looks at creations looted from Palmyra, in present-day Syria, and decorative artifacts found in South African caves.
|
|
The painting had been looted from Mr. Levy in 1940, during the Nazi occupation of France, according to the catalog.
|
|
In the ensuing 25 hours that the city was without electricity, businesses were looted, riots erupted and thousands were arrested.
|
|
On Tuesday and Wednesday, protesters rushed and sometimes looted South African-owned businesses in Nigeria and Zambia, including Shoprite supermarkets.
|
|
The hysteria reached a peak at dawn, when they looted, burned, and destroyed thousands of homes in the Greenwood neighborhood.
|
|
According to Repelando, ancient Romans looted the site, and some elements were removed by a German archaeologist in the 1920s.
|
|
This strongly suggests that much of the Met's collection was looted from Palmyra and then illegally removed from the country.
|
|
Bogus papers claimed it had been exported out of Egypt legally, when it had in fact been looted in 2011.
|
|
The plundered volumes seldom carried the same glamour as the looted paintings, which were often masterpieces worth millions of dollars.
|
|
The law established a federal statute of limitations of six years from the time that suspected looted art was discovered.
|
|
The sculptures, which are actually made of brass, were bought on the open market after being looted by British troops.
|
|
But I've also seen recent items looted from Palmyra — I mean busts and relics from tombs and from the museums.
|
|
I should also add: When I looted the bodies of the deceased racists, I came across a few items of interest.
|
|
The town, which is east of Misrata, has been a ghost town since it was looted by Misrata forces in 2011.
|
|
For weeks in late 2019, protesters burned buildings, looted grocery stores and destroyed public infrastructure in Santiago and throughout the country.
|
|
Cairo's Egyptian Museum, stuffed with Pharaonic relics, can barely keep track of its inventory and was looted during the Arab spring.
|
|
In Killmonger's opening scene, he makes clear that he sees museums as storage vaults for what the Western world has looted.
|
|
Many businesses run by Koreans were damaged, looted, or burned down during the demonstrations, including the shoe store Chon's father owned.
|
|
It traffics in looted antiquities and ransoms for kidnapped foreigners, and drums up donations from wealthy supporters in the Persian Gulf.
|
|
Under Jacob Zuma, Mr Ramaphosa's predecessor, who governed in 2009-18, state-owned enterprises were looted and crime-fighting institutions subverted.
|
|
During the French Revolution, it was looted and desecrated, according to The Guardian, before Napoleon began renovations in the mid-1800s.
|
|
During the French Revolution, it was looted and desecrated, according to The Guardian, before Napoleon began renovations in the mid-1800s.
|
|
Rebels took hostages, set fire to buildings, ransacked churches, broke into the local jail to free inmates and looted an armory.
|
|
In 2013, the Swiss culture ministry created an online portal to aid museum researchers in the effort to identify looted works.
|
|
Disick was in Cannes late last week when someone got into his Hidden Hills home and looted his famous watch collection.
|
|
The Guptas, who left South Africa around the time Zuma was ousted, have consistently denied having looted state firms like Transnet.
|
|
Looted, smuggled, or otherwise undocumented material is pervasive in scholarship: many scholars are probably unaware of how pervasive this material is.
|
|
The attackers then burned the church, looted a pharmacy and some others stores, and left, Dablo mayor Ousmane Zongo told Reuters.
|
|
Yet, in the search for a China policy, it is hard to recall a candidate demanding America return looted Cambodian antiques.
|
|
Protesters were gunned down by troops, foreign businesses were looted and human-rights activists gave warning about mass graves being dug.
|
|
It also became a hub for trafficking antiquities and artifacts looted from archaeological sites, such as the ancient city of Palmyra.
|
|
Vandals have looted hundreds of grocery stores, left much of the downtown painted over in graffiti and set fire to buildings.
|
|
Owusu said other humanitarian workers were being "harassed across the country and humanitarian compounds and supplies have been looted and vandalized".
|
|
Investigators unraveling what prosecutors call a huge fraud in Vermont say two businessmen "systematically looted" millions of dollars from foreign investors.
|
|
A train and an airliner have separately crashed; zombies wander littered street and vacant parking lots; grocery stores have been looted.
|
|
Santiago's mayor, Karla Rubilar, said three people had died in a fire at a supermarket that was looted and set aflame.
|
|
"Looted art, hidden art — they made me look like a crook instead of doing real battle in the court," he said.
|
|
In its report, the independent national commission acknowledged that protesters vandalized police stations and vehicles and also destroyed and looted shops.
|
|
She then displayed them in a huge glass case, under lights, labeling each item with the gravity befitting a looted masterpiece.
|
|
Cities were burned; the reigning king, Oba Ovonranwmen, was forced into exile; and works of art and other treasures were looted.
|
|
Germany: A painting looted by the Nazis was finally returned by a German cathedral to the heirs of its Jewish owners.
|
|
Mexico's oil is publicly owned, so when the fuel is looted on a grand scale, it robs the state of money.
|
|
There'd been huge protests in Ferguson after the news broke, and a whole stretch of businesses had been looted and torched.
|
|
All sorts of art, some of it looted, some not, ended up being transferred out of the Netherlands during the war.
|
|
"I told Christian it was looted and advised him to have nothing to do with it," Mr. Morgan said by telephone.
|
|
Swiss authorities seized nine antiquities looted from Palmyra and other ancient sites in Libya and Yemen at the Geneva Free Port.
|
|
The German government said 13 art works had now been returned to their lawful owners after being identified as looted art.
|
|
The researchers have determined that a handful of works were either looted by the Nazis or bought at below-market prices.
|
|
A stolen Etruscan vessel will be returned to Italy thanks in part to the efforts of a hunter of looted antiquities.
|
|
But she makes a convincing, full-throated case for the German government to amend its laws and practices regarding looted property.
|
|
The next day, around 300 Muslim men looted and burned the parents' house and stripped the mother naked in the street.
|
|
During the war years, many objects were looted, including the Raphel, but Islamic textiles and reliquary were returned to the museum.
|
|
Some of those pieces are known to have been looted by the Nazis and researchers are still looking into their provenance.
|
|
From the time of colonialism through more than three decades of dictatorship, unelected rulers looted Congo's resources for their personal enrichment.
|
|
"They stole millions of books looted by the Nazis that are now in libraries from Moscow to Vladivostok," said Ms. Grimsted.
|
|
Artists need to listen to the demands of the communities that have built strength despite being looted by those in power.
|
|
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The Ivory Coast is demanding that France return 148 works once looted from the country.
|
|
It also became the hub for trafficking antiquities and artifacts looted from archaeological sites, such as the ancient city of Palmyra.
|
|
Anne Webber, founder and co-chairwoman of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, a nonprofit organization in London that studies restitution policies, said that Austria was one of several countries in continental Europe, including Germany and Italy, where buyers get legal ownership at the point of sale even if the work is known to have been looted.
|
|
On Saturday, a crowd waving Ukrainian flags and shouting nationalist slogans looted Sberbank and Alfa bank branches in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital.
|
|
Realistically, what hope do we have for eradicating the global trade in looted artifacts with much less resources dedicated to the goal?
|
|
An art gallery in Florence, Italy, has pleaded for Germany to return a "masterpiece" that was looted by Nazi soldiers in 1944.
|
|
Thousands of protesters hit the Paris streets with cars being torched, stores being looted and multiple injuries to both protesters and police.
|
|
Saturday's protests in Paris were the worst to date with stores looted, cars torched and buildings and monuments damaged by some protesters.
|
|
One of those questions: Should it matter if the person trying to reclaim Nazi-looted art is the daughter of a Nazi?
|
|
Whether it is fully put into effect or not, it remains a milestone in the study of restitution of looted cultural property.
|
|
Clashes are deadlier, too, thanks to guns looted from the arsenals of Libya's former dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, and smuggled around the region.
|
|
Some, such as the glorious Benin bronzes—seized on a British expedition to what is now Nigeria in 1897—were patently looted.
|
|
He was acquitted of fraud charges related to allegations that he looted his drug company to pay off his hedge-fund investors.
|
|
Hitler had first pick of the looted objects, according to the film, but most of them went into private ownership through auction.
|
|
The fifth work, a drawing by Adolph von Menzel, was determined to have been looted, but it has not yet been returned.
|
|
According to NPR, Israel's Antiquities Authority claim that the five dealers were involved in the sale of looted antiquities to Hobby Lobby.
|
|
Arms stores had been looted and some units could not reach the fighting because they had no spare parts for their vehicles.
|
|
The Swiss government announced that it will offer $2 million in grants to finance the recovery of art looted by the Nazis.
|
|
As people began returning this week, some said they believed that the Philippine military, not the Islamist militants, had looted their homes.
|
|
Countries like Benin and Ethiopia, among others, have long requested that artifacts that were plundered or looted by European armies be returned.
|
|
Roughly 250 cuneiform tablets, looted cultural treasures dating from 2100 BCE to 1600 BCE, had been sequestered there by the federal government.
|
|
It points out that foreign-owned factories have been attacked, churches burnt down and property looted by organised gangs during the protests.
|
|
He returned with looted wool bales, wine crates, currants (highly sought-after commodities at the time), ancient Greek marbles and Arabic manuscripts.
|
|
Without access to subway stations, protesters set fires at station entrances and to public buses, and looted and vandalized streets and storefronts.
|
|
The collection was looted wholesale in 1897 when the British army sacked the palace and razed the kingdom in a punitive expedition.
|
|
The Free French forces looted everything they could from the Nazi occupiers, and Nazi memorabilia became very valuable on the black market.
|
|
Protesters marched with banners reading: "Our protest movement will continue", "We want democracy and freedom" and "Thieves, you have looted the country".
|
|
More important is its provenance, the winding routes it took to get here, and whether it was looted or sold under duress.
|
|
Meals are served on paper plate replicas of the china looted from Saddam Hussein's palace, which the artist subsequently bought on eBay.
|
|
The sale was brokered, she said, by an Italian police official famed for his success in recovering artwork looted by the Nazis.
|
|
It looted areas for profit and defaced others for fame as part of a campaign targeting places of religious and historical value.
|
|
Hermann Goering, who was known for his lavish lifestyle, accumulated a vast collection of looted jewelry, furniture and artwork during the war.
|
|
Ukraine still has to jail its kleptocrats and their cronies, and sack the officials who looted the medical system for so long.
|
|
After his arrest, the photo archives became a tool for identifying as looted many objects in museums and galleries around the world.
|
|
"Experience tells us that this is exactly what the black market in looted antiquities always looks like," prosecutors said in their filing.
|
|
Another 61 are suspected of being looted, and research on many more is not yet conclusive enough to rule out Nazi theft.
|
|
The museum also holds a 16th-century ivory mask, looted by British troops in 1897 from Benin City, in present day Nigeria.
|
|
Transitional leaders should start a global effort to locate and claim billions of dollars looted from the Venezuelan people by corrupt officials.
|
|
Videos posted on social media sites showed the smashed glass of a looted electronics store that sold Apple iPhones and other devices.
|
|
Because of the history of stolen and looted art from Africa, its reappearance also raises eyebrows for some in the art community.
|
|
The Polish Culture Ministry, which has actively sought the return of art the Nazis looted from Poland, suggested the criticism is unfair.
|
|
Although these works have a dubious provenance, more research is needed to determine whether they were looted from Jews in the Netherlands.
|
|
By the time they settled in Forest Hills, Queens, it was 230, and all their possessions had been looted by the Nazis.
|
|
The town was widely looted in the first days of occupation, and library owners responded by hiding their documents in their homes.
|
|
Shkreli previously pled not guilty to charges he lost money through poor trades and looted his pharmaceutical company to pay them back.
|
|
Many shops have been looted, such as the state telecoms office which still advertises internet packages in frontage riddled by bullet holes.
|
|
According to forensic investigators, mining executives and officials in his own government, Mr. Kabila has looted millions of dollars in public assets.
|
|
Goldman Sachs is under a U.S. Justice Department investigation over its work for Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund, from which billions were looted.
|
|
Prosecutors claim Shkreli, 34, looted Retrophin of stock to pay off investors he had allegedly defrauded at two hedge funds he ran.
|
|
The Upper West Side was one of the hardest hit sections of Manhattan, with 61 stores looted between 63rd and 19773th Street.
|
|
He was full of ideas on how the city could help looted businesses, from offering interest-free loans to waiving July taxes.
|
|
For instance, the Mosul Museum [in Iraq, looted and smashed by the Islamic State] has just been liberated from the ISIS occupation.
|
|
For many years, Israel and Jewish groups have lobbied Germany to carve out an exception for items looted in the Nazi era.
|
|
The city has been destroyed by years of war, and Mr. Daher suspects that everything has been looted from his old home.
|
|
He said his business, which was also looted, had only liability insurance, so he was not covered for damage or lost inventory.
|
|
It's done business with folks who looted millions from a death benefits pool that was supposed to go to widows and orphans.
|
|
The work was looted from the Schloss family in 1943 and was chosen for inclusion in Adolf Hitler's planned Führermuseum in Linz.
|
|
Since 2006, investigators in the Four Corners area have arrested 23 people in connection with the sale of $335,000 worth of looted items.
|
|
Men in uniform broke into the armory at the Zambakro military training camp in the morning and also looted weapons from police stations.
|
|
Sixty-four percent of those interviewed reporting burning or destruction of property while 37% said their own property had been stolen or looted.
|
|
Unlike other illicit markets on Instagram—exotic animals, looted antiquities, weapons—there is nothing explicitly illegal about trading human remains on the platform.
|
|
While out on bail, Mr. Reyes was arrested again last June on charges that he and his father had looted a Manhattan apartment.
|
|
Many museums house artefacts that were looted from abroad; we examine why the calls for the return of such objects are getting louder.
|
|
Harlins' death is cited as a catalyst to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, in which Korean-owned stores were targeted, looted, and destroyed.
|
|
" The statement added that an expert on cultural property law warned Hobby Lobby that the artifacts were likely looted and carried "considerable risk.
|
|
In 2013 two famous sculptures looted from the palace in 1860 were returned to China by the family of a French art collector.
|
|
A common estimate for the number of works of art looted in the Nazi era is 600,000 with at least 100,000 still missing.
|
|
South Africans had grown used to power cuts under his predecessor, Jacob Zuma, whose cronies looted and mismanaged nearly everything the state controls.
|
|
The monastery has been sacked or looted at least four times, most recently by the occupying Italians in 1936, each time being rebuilt.
|
|
Dreading the probable impact of the terrible news, her children have not yet told her that her house has been destroyed and looted.
|
|
Everything of any value had already been looted, but they rescued a broken generator, and tied it to the back of their car.
|
|
In short, the very oligarchs -- military as well as political -- who overthrew Mugabe must finally reach the conclusion that they have looted enough.
|
|
The police said in a statement later Saturday that a mob at one police station had looted some weapons and fired on officers.
|
|
Prosecutors charge that Shkreli looted Retrophin of stock to pay off investors in his hedge fund that he is also accused of defrauding.
|
|
The company was warned that buying artifacts that were likely from Iraq carried risks that they had been looted, the Justice Department said.
|
|
Ghana's parliament passed a law in November establishing the office of an independent anti-graft prosecutor to fight corruption and recover looted resources.
|
|
The Italian culture minister, Dario Franceschini, said the artifacts would be given to museums in the Italian regions where they had been looted.
|
|
After her release, she returned to find her home looted and her family's truck and two milk cows gone, stolen by the jihadists.
|
|
Members of the paramilitary police looted Rohingya property, including motorcycles and cows, some of which were later taken by the military, Reuters reported.
|
|
Groups of youths, many of them masked, continued skirmishing with police in the Place de la Republique area as some stores were looted.
|
|
All were looted or bought by German occupiers during World War II, then recovered and brought back to France when the conflict ended.
|
|
A hastily posted photo, after all, might be the only record of a looted object that is available to law enforcement or scholars.
|
|
The popular Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex revealed this week that 120,000 bitcoins were stolen after hackers breached its system and looted people's bitcoin wallets.
|
|
In the mayhem that ensued, some teenagers and young men smashed in police cruisers' windshields and bar windows and looted a 173-Eleven.
|
|
Looted antiquities: Traffickers are selling antiquities stolen from conflict zones in the Middle East, including from Syria and Iraq, on Facebook, researchers say.
|
|
Poland was also very anti-Semitic, and although there were Poles who sheltered Jews, many instead turned them in and looted their property.
|
|
No one has a firm idea how many looted items are in private hands, but they used to regularly come up at auction.
|
|
Deutsche Bank: Federal prosecutors are investigating the bank's role in a scheme that looted a Malaysian government fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB.
|
|
The criminal network handled artworks looted from war-stricken countries, as well as works stolen from museums and other sites, the statement said.
|
|
Vandals looted a major hotel in the seaside tourist city of La Serena, turning over tables, ripping paintings off walls and breaking windows.
|
|
"By the '21945s, '1945s, few people thought about those things anymore," said Lynn H. Nicholas, an historian and expert on Nazi-looted art.
|
|
The problem became so rampant that some collectors even began quietly seeking out recently looted objects to avoid the risk of buying fakes.
|
|
But his art collection was looted by Nazi agents in 1938 and Grünbaum sent to Dachau concentration camp, where he died in 1941.
|
|
These were items that, often, they had bought from other militares , who had looted them from pharmacies, or from shipments meant for hospitals.
|
|
And there are also donations of antiquities from areas known to have been looted during recent conflicts, like a cuneiform cylinder from Iraq.
|
|
Middlemen who looked to sell on the looted artifacts worked out of London, Munich, the French city of Dijon and Vrsac in Serbia.
|
|
In the wealthier neighborhoods of Delmas and Petion Ville, angry crowds also looted several stores, banks and money transfer offices, ATMs and pharmacies.
|
|
The U.S. Justice Department said last month it struck a deal to recover $1 billion in funds allegedly looted from 1MDB from Low.
|
|
The Mennonite volunteers are hoping to encourage more families to come back by cleaning up looted homes, fixing broken windows, and installing doors.
|
|
The company appointed a provenance researcher in 2015 to vet its corporate collection for works that may have been looted by the Nazis.
|
|
But prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office presented the museum with evidence that suggested it had been looted from Egypt in 2011.
|
|
For example, ISIS and other militant organizations have reportedly developed looted antiquities as an income stream of up to $200 million a year.
|
|
A closer look at Dayan's story provides evidence that other museums in Israel are guilty of displaying looted artifacts from the Palestinian Territories.
|
|
More ironically horrible is seeing frieze reliefs from the British-looted Elgin marbles scattered across the Greek countryside on various temples and pedestals.
|
|
In late September, a petition penned by intellectuals and activists urged Belgian parliament to deaccession looted objects and trigger the process of restitution.
|
|
According to cultural heritage experts, these artifacts are very likely among the hundreds of thousands of objects looted from Iraq since the 1990s.
|
|
Waiting centuries for the return of these looted objects to the continent, African countries currently appear unwilling to play by France's long game.
|
|
In 2017, the US Justice Department fined the company $3 million and forced it to relinquish thousands of looted Iraqi artifacts it had acquired.
|
|
His unit has rapidly expanded its databases, mapped smuggling routes and tracked thousands of looted artifacts being sold and traded all around the world.
|
|
Protests spread across the country by Thursday night, as protesters blocked roads with burning tires, and they smashed and looted stores and government buildings.
|
|
Germany's culture minister, Monika Grütters, announced plans to reform the Limbach Commission, the restitution panel founded to mediate disputes related to Nazi-looted art.
|
|
The heads had been looted from the Old Summer Palace in Beijing and the Chinese government tried to have them withdrawn from the sale.
|
|
Latin American countries should follow the United States and the EU in barring the regime's leaders from visiting, and in seizing their looted assets.
|
|
Around 10 liquor stores were also looted on Christmas day in southeastern Bolivar state, according to the local chamber of commerce head Florenzo Schettino.
|
|
Seven people were killed in the city and hundreds of stores looted in one 36-hour spate of clashes on May 22 and 23.
|
|
A cultural property expert warned Hobby Lobby's in-house counsel about the artifacts, saying they may have been looted from archaeological sites in Iraq.
|
|
At least 20 people died and thousands fled Jijiga as mobs looted properties owned by ethnic minorities and burned down several Ethiopian Orthodox churches.
|
|
Police had arrested more 120 protesters by late afternoon as demonstrators looted stores around the Champs Elysees and ransacked the high-end Fouquet's restaurant.
|
|
Graphic: Escalating violence in Hong - here For the first time, protesters have been arming themselves with bows and arrows looted from university sports offices.
|
|
When the government commission dedicated to locating the money the Marcoses looted sniffs out the existence of these masterpieces, they're replaced with family photos.
|
|
ISIS has sold looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria and raised millions of dollars to finance its activities from the wealth of past civilizations.
|
|
Shiite militiamen had looted parts of Tikrit, the main hospital was destroyed, and unexploded ordnance lurked in areas that had been ravaged by combat.
|
|
Two Chinese members of Unmiss were killed, and warehouses of the World Food Program, an anti-hunger agency in the United States, were looted.
|
|
For instance, there was always a lurking sense that any commercial establishment that permitted customers to touch the merchandise would be all but looted.
|
|
It took them six days to get off St. Thomas, they said, killing chickens for food and making their way through areas being looted.
|
|
They bought the 100-year-old structure in 1992 for $15,000 — its plumbing and electric looted, its roof rotten, its interior walls in decay.
|
|
Tribal leaders in neighboring provinces told Reuters that, in the security vacuum, army bases were looted and Yemen's south became awash with advanced weaponry.
|
|
Nonetheless, the international sale of looted artifacts should be made illegal so that countries can negotiate repatriation, even if that is a difficult proposition.
|
|
"Museums have really undergone a cultural revolution," said Corinne Bouchoux, a former senator who wrote a 2013 report on France's handling of looted artwork.
|
|
In contrast with the return of Nazi-looted artwork to their original owners, which has been required by law in Austria since 1998, exil.
|
|
Plus, Germany returns a Nazi-looted Thomas Couture work to its rightful heirs, and National Museums Scotland acquire a rare longitude pendulum sea clock.
|
|
" A British Museum spokesperson stressed that "the claims that have been made about the objects in the Ashurbanipal exhibition being looted are not true.
|
|
In some cases, cultural ethics have become public policy, as seen in governmental repatriation efforts and the reclamation of art looted by the Nazis.
|
|
About 100,000 objects in France were looted by the Nazis or sold under duress and transferred to Germany, according to estimates by French authorities.
|
|
Many feared that their unattended houses would be looted, or did not believe the government's dire predictions, said Tania Escamilla, Oxfam's regional communications coordinator.
|
|
Mr. Robertson urges the British Museum to give back to Nigeria the Benin Bronzes — sculptures and relief plaques looted during an 1897 British expedition.
|
|
At lunchtime on Sunday, before Mr. Ortega's announcement, the streets of central Managua were largely deserted, with businesses looted or shuttered, as tension lingered.
|
|
But Parsons is too ready to exculpate Qawuqji, whose men looted and extorted their fellow-Arabs, and punished entire villages that they deemed traitorous.
|
|
The artifacts were looted by British troops in the 19th century, but two British police officers have made it their mission to return them.
|
|
We did a little more digging before realizing this site had been looted by someone without a permit for this kind of fossil removal.
|
|
A spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which handles investigations into the smuggling of looted art, did not return a call seeking comment.
|
|
It was made for an official of Louis XIII and kept in the king's cabinet of arms — and probably looted during the French Revolution.
|
|
At Palmyra, it is clear that Assad's forces, rebel groups, and ISIS have all looted antiquities, but non-ISIS actions have been mostly ignored.
|
|
To play devil's advocate, a common argument is that countries looted by the West don't have the museum facilities to properly house the objects.
|
|
Federal prosecutors have said that at least $20083 billion was looted from the fund by people close to Malaysia's former prime minister, Najib Razak.
|
|
Four police officers were burned alive or beaten to death by protesters who also looted the headquarters of ruling coalition political parties, according to UNJHRO.
|
|
Spokesman Lars Bystrom said Tuesday that unidentified people, including some wearing masks, threw rocks at police, set cars on fire and looted shops in Rinkeby.
|
|
The Imperial Gardens were an architectural wonder of Western-style palaces and gardens that were destroyed and looted by British and French troops in 1860.
|
|
Four state police officers were fired and detained after they were caught on video taking some looted items and putting them in their patrol vehicles.
|
|
After he heard Iraqi forces had liberated his village, Saleh borrowed a truck and went back to his looted home to salvage what he could.
|
|
Some of the human bones have been found without any objects, suggesting they fell on the banks and were looted for goods after they died.
|
|
As of 2014, the worldwide amount of looted state wealth that had been repatriated stood at just $4.5bn, compared with hundreds of billions believed stolen.
|
|
In one rusting shed behind an apartment block here, they found a cache of looted antiquities: 103 classical statues and fragments of marble or limestone.
|
|
The International Council of Museums issued a new "red list" of categories of art and antiquities at risk of being looted from Libya in December.
|
|
Many of the recently looted artifacts, antiquities experts say, are probably being kept in warehouses in or near Syria and Iraq until attention has waned.
|
|
In the stupendously popular film "Black Panther", an artefact looted from the fictional kingdom of Wakanda is stolen back from the "Museum of Great Britain".
|
|
Benin, which is requesting the return of works looted from the royal palaces of Abomey by French soldiers in 1892, is building three new museums.
|
|
Shops have been looted and public buildings burned to the ground, including part of the National University in Leon and the city hall in Granada.
|
|
Last night, protests erupted amidst the rolling blackouts that have become the norm, as angry Venezuelans looted stores and rioted near the government's power company.
|
|
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and foreign-owned shops were looted in the South African township of Soweto on Wednesday, police said.
|
|
When they were found to be missing in 2016, it was heavily suspected that illegal salvagers exploded the ships and then looted them for metal.
|
|
As with the Green Collection, several scholars — often respected, prominent scholars — are closely associated with the looted material, publishing it, even authenticating it for dealers.
|
|
Alexander Historical Auctions obtained the book from a daughter of one of the 11 American officers who looted Hitler's Munich apartment on May 2nd, 1945.
|
|
Police had arrested more than 20.8829 protesters by late afternoon as demonstrators looted stores around the Champs Elysees and ransacked the high-end Fouquet's restaurant.
|
|
While Britain's museums are increasing their transparency, that does not mean that they are willing to return these looted objects to the country of origin.
|
|
It was an empty avatar, walking through New York, shooting guys who obviously looted every sporting goods store going in order to uniformly clothe themselves.
|
|
Creditors have said the private equity-backed parent looted the operating unit of its best assets and left it with $18 billion of unsustainable debt.
|
|
A fast-thinking, Columbo-esque lawyer for the L.A. Dodgers blew the lid off a major memorabilia theft ring that looted the organization for years.
|
|
In an effort to crackdown on illegal trafficking in looted antiquities, and to protect German national heritage, the law introduces new import and export restrictions.
|
|
A few pieces from the Woolleys' trove, including gold vessels and terra-cotta figurines, were looted from Iraq's national museum around 2003 and have vanished.
|
|
Anne Webber, a founder of the commission, said her researchers concluded that the resale of looted art to Nazi-tied families had hardly been isolated.
|
|
The mayor of Dablo told Reuters that the attackers then burned the church and looted a pharmacy and some others stores before leaving the area.
|
|
The Associated Press reported that protesters looted businesses, vandalized buildings and monuments and clashed with police amid unrest over rising taxes and high living costs.
|
|
The pieces were looted decades ago, as indicated by the dates on the Italian and British newspapers in which they were wrapped, an investigator said.
|
|
It is no secret that millions of objects, never intended for museal display, have been looted from all over the world by different imperial powers.
|
|
Gas station owners refused to unlock their pumps for a week after the storm, fearing that they would be looted immediately if they did so.
|
|
Even if they're able to return home, it will be to communities without clinics or schools, villages of looted shops, burned houses and fallow fields.
|
|
Kirstein had served in the army in World War II, and he returned to Europe as part of a mission to retrieve looted Nazi art.
|
|
Protesters burned parts of the Ebola triage center in Beni and looted it, walking off with chairs and tables, according to the Ministry of Health.
|
|
Jewish heirs of looted art have agreed in other cases to partially compensate good-faith buyers, or to auction disputed works and divide the proceeds.
|
|
Rioters last Saturday torched cars, looted shops and defaced the Arc de Triomphe in the worst unrest the French capital has seen in five decades.
|
|
After the infamous police commissioner Bull Connor sicced police dogs on schoolchildren and arrested hundreds, including King, angry black protesters looted Birmingham's downtown shopping district.
|
|
Supermarkets and electronics stores were looted in the two days after the hurricane, Mark Vanterpool, the minister of communications and works, said in an interview.
|
|
While many demonstrators have been peaceful, others have looted and attacked or burned subway stations, buses, supermarkets, banks, pharmacies, public utility services and government offices.
|
|
They were all from the NK Collection, a trove of some 3,800 looted works that have yet to be returned for a variety of reasons.
|
|
These are among the several hundred works found in the homes of Cornelius Gurlitt, many of them suspected of having been looted by the Nazis.
|
|
As a Nigerian, I'm reminded of that whenever I encounter some of the exquisite objects looted from Benin City, in southern Nigeria, in Western museums.
|
|
During the war years, many objects from the collection were looted, including Raphael's masterpiece "Portrait of a Young Man" (1513-14), and were never retrieved.
|
|
The auction house challenged whether the piece had been looted, but the case was settled and the statue was ceremonially returned to Cambodia in 2014.
|
|
Hundreds of foreigners were forced from their homes and some of their business were looted by angry protesters in Durban city in the past week.
|
|
Protesters torched cars and lorries, smashed windows in banks, looted retail stores and hurled paving slabs and other objects before police managed to restore order.
|
|
By then, Mr. Sabin had moved his store to a new location in Washington after his original store was looted in race riots in 1968.
|
|
Turkey's incursion into Afrin in northern Syria displaced around 300,000 people, and the militias backed by Turkey seized, looted and destroyed property of Kurdish civilians.
|
|
Plus, Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama works sell at auction, and a US couple is forced to return a looted Pissaro to its rightful heir.
|
|
Most of its contents had been looted or destroyed by fungi, but two rotting cedar panels turned out to be etched with images and hieroglyphs.
|
|
It left a wake of more than 103 looted businesses, at least 40 hospital patients who died and at least a half dozen shuttered factories.
|
|
The German culture minister, Monika Grütters, appointed the first Jewish members to the Limbach Commission — the panel established to mediate Nazi-looted art ownership disputes.
|
|
The German Center of Lost Cultural Property has so far confirmed that 100 of the 1,500 works in Gurlitt's possession were looted by the Nazis.
|
|
In the past, politicians sought to allay those concerns by exempting from the legislation any valuables taken by the Nazis in World War II. Some restitution groups are satisfied that the latest version exempts the descendants of the owners of art looted in World War II because it will not shield works looted from 1933 to 1945 by the German military or its allies.
|
|
That information surfaced in 2016 when Mondex, a company specializing in looted art, determined Lindon&aposs heirs were the rightful owners, per the New York Times .
|
|
The German baked goods manufacturer Dr. Oetker announced that it identified four works in its company art collection that may have been looted by the Nazis.
|
|
BBC Radio 4 also produces Museum of Lost Objects, a podcast tracing the stories of antiquities and cultural sites destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria.
|
|
In 2017, the WCO said customs officers recovered more than 14,000 items looted worldwide including antiquities, paintings and statues, 48 percent up from the previous year.
|
|
Just last week, singer Jason Derulo's L.A. home was broken into by multiple people and looted -- the perps made off with $300k in cash and jewelry.
|
|
In Baltimore, for example, legitimate frustration from systemic police brutality against African-Americans was misdirected when Asian owned businesses were looted by a handful of individuals.
|
|
With the economy in freefall, hungry mobs have looted food stories, power and water are in short supply and hospitals are unable to care for newborns.
|
|
In one recent attack, a van carrying businessmen was stopped and looted on the off-ramp leading into the airport; the driver was shot and killed.
|
|
In addition, the PTI promises to secure the return from abroad of $2.3bn that Mr Khan claims was looted by the Sharif family from public coffers.
|
|
The Victoria & Albert Museum offered to organize a "long-term loan" of Ethiopian treasures looted by British troops at the Battle of Magdala (1868) to Ethiopia.
|
|
The Metropolitan Museum of Art returned two looted antiquities; a 19433th-century BCE terracotta vase and a 5th-century BCE marble sculpture of a bull's head.
|
|
By his fall, and the start of the first Congo war in 1997, Mobutu Sese Seko, Congo's flamboyant post-independence dictator, had looted almost everything else.
|
|
The protest movement will have "a severe impact" on the economy, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said as he toured a heavily looted central Paris neighborhood.
|
|
Six people also suffered gunshot wounds as other businesses, including two liquor stores, were looted, and attacks were reported in the city's metro system, Villegas said.
|
|
Six people also suffered gunshot wounds as other businesses, including two liquor stores, were looted, and attacks were reported in the city's metro system, Villegas said.
|
|
Plus, that iconic portrait of Beyoncé is going to the National Portrait Gallery, and three museums in Munich have joined to restitute nine Nazi-looted artworks.
|
|
In protests over the weekend in the north Indian state of Haryana, they blocked highways, attacked railway stations, set fire to buildings and looted, police said.
|
|
Three people, including a police officer, died during Monday's violent demonstrations in the capital Harare and second city Bulawayo, where protesters looted shops and torched cars.
|
|
Mr Kerry, in an interview in Phnom Penh, calls such moves as the return of looted Cambodian sculptures more than just the "decent" thing to do.
|
|
About 20,000 police struggled to contain several hundred demonstrators who torched cars, looted shops and hurled Molotov cocktails and stones during the July 7-8 summit.
|
|
Academics began to leave, precipitating a brain drain that accelerated dramatically in the 1990s during the country's civil war, when the campus was looted by rebels.
|
|
And early last year, members of the U.S.-vetted Honduran special forces looted and then hid $85033 million during a raid on a drug kingpin's property.
|
|
The Moche built irrigation canals to grow crops in the desert and were known for their ceramics and goldwork that have been looted from their gravesites.
|
|
Military and security experts have said militants who escaped from Marawi are recruiting fighters using looted cash, gold and jewelry worth tens of millions of dollars.
|
|
Homes have been flattened by bombardment, shopfronts and garages gutted, burnt and looted, and black patches from mortar explosions scorch the ground along the main road.
|
|
Red Cross convoys have been stopped and searched by mobs of hundreds of Buddhist protesters; ICRC supply trucks have fatally crashed; supply warehouses have been looted.
|
|
Rights groups in the region say they have received reports that soldiers and police officers have shot unarmed people, raped women, looted shops and burned homes.
|
|
On the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, anti-Jewish rioters burned or destroyed 267 synagogues and vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish businesses.
|
|
" Asked why it had not detected that the painting was looted, Christie's responded with a statement: "We think this case raises many important Holocaust restitution issues.
|
|
Macron immediately announced that the Quai Branly Museum in Paris would return 26 objects that had been looted by French colonial forces in 1892, to Benin.
|
|
As the Islamic State expanded, it systematically looted and destroyed, using heavy machinery to dig into ancient sites that had scarcely been excavated before the war.
|
|
Over 70 years after the end of World War II, museums and other institutions around Europe are still returning looted artwork, with varying speed and eagerness.
|
|
The German Lost Art Foundation, which traditionally investigates Nazi-looted art, announced it would widen its remit and give grants to museums for colonial provenance research.
|
|
Among the looted objects were a famed Aztec obsidian jar in the shape of a monkey and the jade death mask of an ancient Mayan ruler.
|
|
The district attorney's office has made investigating looted antiquities a priority in recent years and even created a new squad devoted to that mission last year.
|
|
There is a provenance gap, so if that is filled and it is suddenly discovered to be Nazi-looted art, we will find a new solution.
|
|
Last week, the Met surrendered an ancient vase that it bought at auction in 1989 because of concerns that it might have been looted from Italy.
|
|
Holed up in his Kinshasa mansion, he has shown little interest in ruling Congo, and he has already looted his resource-rich country of untold millions.
|
|
The indictment also charges that instead of paying them cash as promised, Shkreli gave them combinations of stock and cash that he had looted from Retrophin.
|
|
Abdedlkarim said Syria would be able to get back any looted artefacts if they came onto the market for sale because they could easily be identified.
|
|
The most high-profile works, a Pissarro and two Signacs, had been looted by the Nazis and recently returned to the heirs of the original owner.
|
|
Mr. Simmons explained that the shadowy pasts of these looted paintings enhance the security of their provenance once they have been restored to the owners' heirs.
|
|
Officials say the exercise stuffed the Saudi coffers with about $100 billion of looted state monies, but nevertheless, it was widely interpreted as MBS consolidating power.
|
|
But the country's recent restitution efforts are coming under scrutiny as some international critics say Dutch policies for returning looted art have become stricter once again.
|
|
In their later research, Mr. Ekkart and the organization he led, the Origins Unknown Agency, found that the Netherlands had auctioned off some 2,500 looted works.
|
|
After his death in 1987, mourners looted shops and set buses on fire, and the police fired on the crowds with tear gas and live ammunition.
|
|
The brothers have vehemently denied accusations that they looted their bank, and said that the Ecuadorean government had politicized the case and unfairly seized their assets.
|
|
The burial structures were looted during antiquity, but beads and a pendant depicting Hathor, an Egyptian goddess, suggest earlier trade links between Pylos, Greece, and Egypt.
|
|
Forty-five crates full of looted artifacts were found in Geneva Freeport and are believed to have belonged to the disgraced British antiquities dealer Robin Symes.
|
|
KIEV, Ukraine — The branch offices of three Russian banks were firebombed or looted over the weekend, and some of the attacks were the work of Ukrainian nationalists.
|
|
Yone Escalante said that on one occasion when he was looted after a tire burst, policemen joined in the fray, taking bananas and cheese with the crowd.
|
|
Miguel Angel Yunes Linares ventured out Thursday and tried to persuade a crowd not to attack a grocery store that had already been looted a day earlier.
|
|
"All the normal sources of revenue have been completely upended," Sanchez said, adding that half of the health centers in the area have been looted or wrecked.
|
|
In the years following, Assyrian archaeologist Dr. Donny George Youkhanna played an instrumental role in securing the return of thousands of treasures that were looted in 2003.
|
|
For example, starting in 2019, The German Lost Art Foundation, in charge of investigating and returning Nazi-looted art will additionally focus on collections from colonial contexts.
|
|
It's easy to find yourself overburdened with items looted from machines or relic sites, unsure of whether to sell them, use them, or craft something with them.
|
|
In the United States, there has not yet been a documented case of a looted object linked to the Islamic State, according to officials from several agencies.
|
|
And for Mr Najib, who was accused by America's Department of Justice of personally pocketing $681m looted from a Malaysian government agency, it is a welcome comeuppance.
|
|
The Couture painting had been confiscated in 2012 when German authorities discovered a possible trove of Nazi-looted art in the Munich apartment of collector Cornelius Gurlitt .
|
|
Police and government officials said they could not confirm the identity of the attackers or whether the weapons they used were among some looted in the Oct.
|
|
"Venezuelan officials have looted their country's resources — everything from natural resources such as oil to consumer products intended to eliminate poverty such as [dried milk]," Mnuchin said.
|
|
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Permanent and full repatriation of African property looted during the colonial era should become a guiding principle of French cultural institutions.
|
|
A lawsuit over the ownership of the work was settled last year after the Armenian Apostolic Church claimed that the pages were looted during the Armenian Genocide.
|
|
Protests that started peacefully soon turned violent as rioters looted, pillaged and raped, and blocked roads, railways and a canal that supplies about half of Delhi's water.
|
|
As Neil Brodie has pointed out, this activity helps to drive up the price of antiquities without a clear provenance, which are most often looted (or forged).
|
|
Rioters looted shops, torched vehicles and placed rocks and other debris across roads on Wednesday, snarling traffic and business in the capital of Africa's most industrialized country.
|
|
A law Austria introduced in 1998 directed that its museums return the looted art, and major works have been given back to descendants of the former owners.
|
|
These objects were looted during colonial-era wars in the late 19th century, sending many of the works to the nations of Europe, especially France and England.
|
|
Although the security forces usually react swiftly, on May 11th a wholesale market in Maracay, about 80km (50 miles) west of Caracas, was looted for three hours.
|
|
What looked like a personal vendetta became a national cause last year, when it emerged that billions had been looted from 1MDB, a state-owned investment firm.
|
|
Over the years, China has successfully wielded its growing economic might to recover a number of artifacts said to have been looted from the Old Summer Palace.
|
|
The looted artifacts, captured in 103 searches and seizures, include jars, jewelry, and vases from the 4th and 2nd century BCE that are worth millions of euros.
|
|
A police official from Japan's Hokkaido prefecture said the 10 sailors were suspected of having looted a fishing station from an uninhabited Japanese island close to Hokkaido.
|
|
"It might, in fact, bring him forward as the collector he was — independently of the 13 works that unfortunately turned out to be looted," Mr. Gloor said.
|
|
"They are among those who rioted and looted and were therefore arrested," Bongo said, adding that six dual nationals would be treated like any citizen of Gabon.
|
|
This is especially true because hurricane evacuees will take every car they have for fear that any vehicles left behind will be damaged or looted, she said.
|
|
It also claims to repay these investors, he looted Retrophin, which became a public company, of stock to settle their claims against him and the hedge funds.
|
|
On a tour of Seville late last year, guide Moises Hassan-Amselem reflected on the difficult question of whether the looted works should be returned to Seville.
|
|
In Nairobi's Mathare slum — and to a lesser extent in Kibera — shops and homes of Kikuyu business owners were torched and looted on Saturday and Sunday night.
|
|
An estimated 100,000 objects in France alone were looted by the Nazis or sold under duress and transferred to Germany — paintings, but also drawings, sculptures and antiquities.
|
|
The heavy, quick fall meant 50,000 cars were abandoned, shops were looted, and 650 students had to sleep at school because buses couldn't get through the snow.
|
|
The move comes amid growing calls for repatriation of cultural artifacts from foreign museums, those looted as well as those taken with official sanction in previous times.
|
|
In the nineteen-nineties, when U.S. investigators came looking for looted assets that had been stolen from Jews during the Second World War, the Swiss government stonewalled.
|
|
He died at 81, just after bequeathing the collection to the Bern museum, which has pledged to return any works proved to be looted from Jewish collectors.
|
|
"It was a lack of compassion," said Rudi Ekkart, an art historian the government hired in 2023 to track looted art and help find the rightful owners.
|
|
The report, by the Origins Unknown Agency, a Dutch organization that investigates cases of looted art, was commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
|
|
During the war, Dutch Jewish families were required to relinquish all property to a formerly Jewish bank, Lippmann, Rosenthal and Co., which the Germans "Aryanized" and looted.
|
|
Rioters looted shops and set fire to cars and buildings in the latest outbreak of violence against African immigrants in and around Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city.
|
|
Videos purporting to show African immigrants' shops being looted and set on fire have gone viral on social media as people across the continent condemned the attacks.
|
|
Last year, the vendors only took in $130 million, during a festival that was marred by several raids by the authorities who were seeking possibly looted items.
|
|
In 2004, they were mentioned in an article in The New York Times that traced the journey of a looted Egyptian artifact, which passed through their hands.
|
|
This month, it has been transformed into a looted store, as part of the organization's "Re-Imagine Justice" exhibit commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1992 riots.
|
|
"It's a very extraordinary case that revealed this remarkable, previously unknown history," said Anne Webber, founder and co-chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe.
|
|
The government considered changing the law after the 2012 discovery of more than 1,000 Nazi-looted artworks in a Munich apartment, but those changes were never enacted.
|
|
The antiquities dealer asserts that the paper damaged his reputation by identifying him in connection with an investigation into artifacts that may have been looted by ISIS.
|
|
Senegal and the Ivory Coast have made some of the first official announcements about their intention to request the return of colonial-looted objects from French collections.
|
|
Army medic Luis Ocampo returned from the front lines of Hurricane Florence in September to find his house looted, and some of his family's most cherished possessions stolen.
|
|
A man thought to have been behind an alleged Bitcoin Ponzi scheme has had his house looted and burned to the ground in South Africa, reports Times Live.
|
|
In the sprawling working-class neighborhood of Ettadhamen in the capital, a bank and an electronics store were looted and a vehicle was set alight on Thursday night.
|
|
The market, owned by a family that migrated to the United States after the Soviet invasion, was looted and burned in the subsequent civil war of the 1990s.
|
|
While at first, peaceful protests were organized -- they soon turned violent with reports of stores being looted, rocks being thrown at police and vehicles being set on fire.
|
|
About 20,000 police struggled to contain several hundred anti-capitalist militants who torched cars, looted shops and hurled Molotov cocktails and stones during the July 7-8 summit.
|
|
As of this week, four looted works of art have already been identified, but the company has not publicly named the pieces, citing confidentiality agreements with the heirs.
|
|
The exact figures are impossible to know, but estimates suggest the number of looted paintings alone totalled 650,000—a fifth of all paintings in Europe at the time.
|
|
Protests turned violent The first two nights after the shooting quickly turned violent when protesters started throwing objects at police, broke store front windows and looted some shops.
|
|
Mr Hadi says the Houthis looted around $4bn from the central bank to pay for the war (the Houthis say the money was used for food and medicine).
|
|
The Detroit Uprising lasted five full days, and resulted in a slew of shocking statistics: 953 individuals dead, 1,189 injured, 7,2700 arrests, and 225,217 stores burned or looted.
|
|
Rioters had smashed storefront windows, looted businesses and thrown objects at police, prompting officials to declare a state of emergency and the city's mayor to enact a curfew.
|
|
Rights group Human Rights Watch said last month that Turkey-backed rebels seized, looted and destroyed property belonging to Kurdish civilians in the aftermath of the Afrin offensive.
|
|
The Islamic State's destruction of ancient sites in Syria and Iraq has dominated the headlines recently, along with claims that the group reaps enormous profits from looted antiquities.
|
|
Thursday's attackers also burned an ambulance and looted a health center at the Tazalit camp in Niger's western Tahoua region, bordering Mali, a U.N. statement said on Friday.
|
|
It said images, videos, photos and dozens of testimonies indicated that hundreds of properties had been looted in a rampage targeting Kurdish parts of the ethnically mixed town.
|
|
Daniel McGahn, the head of American Superconductor, tells 60 Minutes that he spent millions of dollars developing wind turbine software, only to have it looted by Chinese hackers.
|
|
We called attention to the countless works of art belonging to Jewish families which were prolifically looted and "sold" under duress during the early years of the Holocaust.
|
|
And if the experience of ousting the Islamic State from Tikrit, Falluja and Ramadi, above, are any guide, troops will find widespread destruction, looted homes and hidden bombs.
|
|
The money did not, as some initially reported, fund ISIS; but it did prop up a thriving market in looted antiquities and hasten the cultural predation of Iraq.
|
|
Last month, the Swiss Jewish federation revisited those issues, hosting a lecture on looted art at the Kunsthaus by Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress.
|
|
Prakash Javadekar, a minister in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet, said all the fugitives would have to come back and "return the looted money to the nation".
|
|
Nicholas O'Donnell, a lawyer and expert in the restitution of looted art, said in a telephone interview that cases in which paintings cross international borders are particularly complicated.
|
|
He said that "sections of the mobs" accompanying Mr. Odinga's convoy had "looted property" and that enraged crowds had stoned five people to death after catching them stealing.
|
|
Also, the Sacklers have filed a motion to dismiss a Massachussetts lawsuit against them, the French government will open an office to restitute Nazi-looted art, and more.
|
|
But in a burst of violence, protesters smashed windows, looted stores and set a bank on fire, putting Mr. Macron's government under renewed pressure to step up security.
|
|
"We have a responsibility to give the right painting to the right person," said Vincent Delieuvin, a curator at the Louvre who oversees looted or force-sold paintings.
|
|
Simply deleting the page would destroy "a huge corpus of evidence" that will be needed to identify, track and recover looted treasures for years to come, he said.
|
|
Some traffickers sit on looted antiquities for long periods, waiting for attention to die down and sometimes forging documents about the items' origins before offering them for sale.
|
|
In a certain city market, I was told, the spoils of war show up for sale: refrigerators, pipes, chandeliers, all looted from towns recently reclaimed by the military.
|
|
Mr. Louis, who is a partner in a rum bottling and distribution firm in St. Martin, said the company's warehouse had been damaged by Irma, and then looted.
|
|
"I cannot understand on any level why a family that has been looted by the Nazis should have to pay to get its property back," Ms. Rosenberg said.
|
|
If my body is Rome, it's going to take a Visigoth army of a flu to sack it, and it's going to be looted and pillaged for days.
|
|
By 2006, it had become clear that the Euphronios krater had been looted from an Etruscan tomb northwest of Rome in 1971 before being sold to the Met.
|
|
The next day, protesters attacked factories, torched subway stations and looted supermarkets in Chile's worst upheaval in decades, eventually forcing Mr. Piñera to deploy troops to the streets.
|
|
Churkin said jewelry, coins and other looted items are brought to the Turkish cities of Izmir, Mersin and Antalya, where criminal groups produce fake documents on their origin.
|
|
CEOC filed for Chapter 11 protection in January 2015 with $18 billion of debt and allegations by creditors that its parent looted the unit prior to the bankruptcy.
|
|
This month, the Open Society Foundations, set up by the billionaire George Soros, announced a four-year, $15 million initiative to help Africa get back looted cultural objects.
|
|
Prosecutors claimed Shkreli had defrauded multiple investors in two hedge funds he previously ran, and then looted another drug company he founded, Retrophin, to pay back those investors.
|
|
Like many paintings looted during World War II, "La Punta Della Dogana e San Giorgio Maggiore" went through several hands after the Grafs had to leave it behind.
|
|
Because Mr. Gurlitt's collection was privately owned, the Washington Principles, under which nations agreed in 1998 to seek to restore works looted by the Nazis, did not apply.
|
|
Both in Janikhel District of Paktia Province, and in Kohistan District of Faryab Province, the Taliban looted all the weapons and equipment left behind by the Afghan forces.
|
|
At the same time, Mr. Mugabe faced increasingly restive veterans of the independence war, a volatile constituency whose state-run pension funds had been looted by government officials.
|
|
Goering's vast collection, much of which was looted from Jews, was seized by the United States military at the end of World War II and stored in Munich.
|
|
The complaint said they invented the ownership history and that some markings on the statue, indicative of damage and repair, led investigators to conclude the statue was looted.
|
|
Hamas, the Islamic movement that rivals Mr. Arafat's Fatah group, recently handed over the Nobel Prize paraphernalia, which was looted after Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.
|
|
Another person was arrested after they allegedly looted an Exxon gas station and convenience store in Wilmington on Saturday evening, according to the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office.
|
|
"So long as there is a demand for looted and stolen artifacts, thieves and traffickers are going to find the supply," said Tess Davis, the coalition's executive director.
|
|
Another time, I had just looted a chest and got a blue assault rifle and then—boomph, boomph—some guy with a shotgun just took me right out.
|
|
A Nazi looted painting by Salomon Koninck titled "A scholar sharpening his quill"(0003), has been returned to its rightful heirs, Michel Vernay, Laurent Vernay, and Eliane Demartini.
|
|
The mask was looted when the United States invaded Iraq in March of 2003, and was recovered in an orchard a few miles north of Baghdad that October.
|
|
Meanwhile Shaked himself had previously worked for several years on the Schøyen incantation bowls, a set of hundreds of unprovenanced artifacts likely looted from Iraq in the 1990s.
|
|
It is unclear if the artifacts once displayed here were looted by ISIS militants or removed preemptively by Syrian antiquities authorities before the ISIS takeover of the city.
|
|
Human rights monitors and members of the mostly stateless Rohingya community say troops have shot civilians on sight, raped Rohingya women and looted and burned homes during the operation.
|
|
Responding to a question from CNN, Barrow said he could not confirm a claim by one of his aides that Gambia's treasury had been looted by outgoing president Jammeh.
|
|
It found its way to the Rawza Museum of Islamic Art in Ghazni, Afghanistan, before being looted in the '70s and eventually being purchased by the MKG in 23.
|
|
The newly discovered, elaborately carved tomb is considered to be "one of a kind in the last decades" for its pristine state and the fact it hasn't been looted.
|
|
The anniversary comes as many global Jewish leaders are still questioning Germany's ability to return art looted from Jewish homes or sold under duress during Hitler's time in power.
|
|
Soldiers in Ivory Coast looted weapons and burned down parts of an army base, continuing a string of mutinies over pay that have rocked the country since last year.
|
|
Last year, archaeology students Matthew Vincent and Chance Coughenour launched Project Mosul, a website that uses crowdsourced images and photogrammetry to digitally recreate destroyed and looted artifacts and landmarks.
|
|
Beria has looted Stalin's private records, destroying evidence of his own cruelty while clinging on to the documents indicating the complicity of his colleagues in the USSR's numerous atrocities.
|
|
Many people had set up makeshift barricades outside their neighborhoods to keep out potential troublemakers, and had armed themselves with sticks, shotguns and automatic rifles looted from government arsenals.
|
|
In the 1850s British and French soldiers held a banquet in the Parthenon; for proud Greeks, this was provocative behaviour by countries which already held much looted Hellenic art.
|
|
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — Following Baghdad's fall to US troops in 277, more than 282,225 artifacts were looted from the National Museum of Iraq by thieves.
|
|
"In short, we are seeing a revolt against the fact that we are simply taking away the money that the elites had looted and divided up somehow," he said.
|
|
H: I wonder, if — between field-wide research into Nazi-looted art and the Indigenous work, as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities — there are overlaps in protocols?
|
|
The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) estimates more than 100 Hindu houses and 17 temples have been vandalized and looted since the violence began on Oct 30.
|
|
"We received reports on the attack on the two villages where the attackers killed, looted, and kidnapped women and children," a Damboa local government official told CNN from Maiduguri.
|
|
Once I found the plainstriders, I started killing them, very slowly, one at a time, and found that less than 50% of them had beaks when I looted them.
|
|
NEW DELHI — Over the centuries, the Taj Mahal has endured its share of attacks — plundered by the Jats of northern India and looted by British soldiers, among other indignities.
|
|
In some cases, the Taliban were able to reinforce their bases there with weapons and equipment they had looted from the military bases in the city, the officials said.
|
|
AQAP has captured heavy weapons from stocks left behind by feeling Yemeni troops and may have looted as much as $100 million from a branch of Yemen's central bank.
|
|
Italian officials maintained the deal had been brokered by Robert Hecht, an American antiquities dealer who was tried in Italy in 2005 on charges of dealing in looted art.
|
|
Mr. Symes was once one of the world's most prominent antiquities dealers but became embroiled in a series of investigations into looted art, mostly of Greek and Italian provenance.
|
|
Most museums have committed to the 1998 Washington conference principles on identifying and giving back art looted by the Nazis, but individual owners are not bound by the agreement.
|
|
Reputable collectors typically establish an artifact's provenance, or its history of ownership, to confirm that it is authentic, and that it hasn't been looted from its country of origin.
|
|
She said that when the museum bought the painting, there had been no indication in the provenance presented by the Berlin auction house that the painting had been looted.
|
|
"Those people who have looted the country, I promise that they will be brought to justice," Mr. Khan said in a speech soon after his election victory in August.
|
|
Students and faculty from the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University held an action today to request a sculpture looted from the Kingdom of Benin be returned.
|
|
The Germans looted the museum during their occupation, but much of what they stole was taken from them by the advancing Red Army, and sent to the Soviet Union.
|
|
A little over 100 looted objects, including about 50 paintings, have been returned to their legitimate owners or their descendants, since the 1950s, after the first wave of restitutions.
|
|
While some families saw their possessions looted by the Nazis, others were forced to sell their paintings, meaning the initial transaction can appear legitimate and can involve multiple intermediaries.
|
|
One supermarket in southeastern Caracas was looted on Sunday evening, triggering a shootout with police and National Guard troops, according to Reuters witnesses and an employee who was present.
|
|
Fighters looted cables from the station, and most of North Al-Jazeera's smaller subsidiary pumps, bridges and canals were wrecked in the battle for Nineveh that started in 220.
|
|
Security forces appeared to have avoided some of the mistakes made during the 2013 attack, when police and soldiers shot at each other, then soldiers looted the Westgate mall.
|
|
Some holdouts fear that their homes will be looted, and others do not want to leave their pets or cannot afford to pay for a trip inland, he wrote.
|
|
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), which says more than $4.5 billion was looted from 1MDB in a multi-country fraud, returned nearly $200 million to Malaysia in May.
|
|
The raids inspired books, movies, Broadway productions like Ayad Akhtar's "Junk" and, eventually, a federal law slapping a punitive tax on any raider who looted a pension fund again.
|
|
For a few months in 21975, "Murph the Surf" and his crew became folk heroes when they looted the Hall of Gems from the American Museum of Natural History.
|
|
Prosecutors say Douglas A. J. Latchford, 88, a dealer in and collector of Southeast Asian antiquities, falsified documents to make looted treasures easier to sell on the art market.
|
|
The artifact, a 500-pound, 10th-century sandstone statue of a mythic warrior, known as Duryodhana, is thought to have been looted from a temple in a Cambodian jungle.
|
|
She cited as an example two works, which the researchers are almost certain were looted by the Nazis, but which are missing ownership details for some periods of time.
|
|
Mr. Kabila and his family have looted the nation's resources, including diamonds, to amass a fortune worth hundreds of millions of dollars while doing little to alleviate widespread poverty.
|
|
Coptic churches and homes have been set on fire, members of the Coptic minority have been physically attacked and their property has been looted, Amnesty International reported last year.
|
|
As a result, none of the displays address the museum's dubious acquisition practices during the 30- year period when it was, arguably, the world's leading destination for looted antiquities.
|
|
Under the rule of the Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha more than 2800 years ago, a handful of high-ranking government officials looted billions of dollars from the country's coffers.
|
|
France: A new task force will search for and return artwork that was looted during the Nazi occupation, after years of criticism that restitution efforts were not proactive enough.
|
|
Violence broke out on April 27, when demonstrators looted, burned 144 vehicles and 15 buildings, and threw bricks, bottles, and other objects at police, injuring at least 20 officers.
|
|
We know from other cases of looted antiquities that middlemen often photographed their wares after receiving them from the tombaroli (grave-robbers) who dug them out of the ground.
|
|
"Though retaining their status as government property, a series of US Navy shipwrecks were disturbed without authorization or looted in the decades leading up to the SMCA," Taylor told Gizmodo.
|
|
Eight Rohingya women, all from U Shey Kya village in Rakhine State, described in detail how soldiers last week raided their homes, looted property and raped them at gun point.
|
|
It had restaurants and furriers and jewelry stores and hotels," John W. Franklin explains, "and the white mobs looted the homes and businesses before they set fire to the community.
|
|
Video posted to social media appeared to show carjackings in broad daylight, people being robbed at a bus station, a shootout taking place in the street and stores being looted.
|
|
IT HAS been two years since the scandal surrounding 1MDB, a Malaysian state investment firm from which billions of dollars have been looted, began to attract attention around the world.
|
|
The Islamic State has looted roughly $1 billion from bank vaults across Syria and Iraq, and it exacts taxes, tolls and traffic fines from those who live under its control.
|
|
In Nigeria the Edo state government and royal court plan to build a museum in Benin City to house the treasures that were looted during a punitive expedition in 1897.
|
|
While restitution efforts began in 1957, many of those involved in dealing in looted art both before and after the war did not realise that the artworks had been stolen.
|
|
Multiple dealers, such as Benno Griebert and Otto Staebler, who had long-term relationships with the museum after the war, have been shown to have connections with Nazi-looted art.
|
|
A parliamentary committee in Zimbabwe summoned Robert Mugabe, the former president, to testify in relation to allegations that up to $15bn-worth of diamonds were looted from government-controlled mines.
|
|
He had campaigned on a promise to reduce corruption and enforce the rule of law—an obvious threat to those who have looted this giant, mineral-rich country for decades.
|
|
But corruption also extends to the Kurdish north, where the family of Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government since 2005, has looted a massive cut of government revenues.
|
|
Shkreli, 33, later was charged with securities fraud by federal prosecutors, who claim he looted Retrophin's assets to pay off investors he had allegedly swindled while earlier running hedge funds.
|
|
Since the 1960s, Nigeria has been calling for the return of about 4,000 ivory and bronze artifacts that the British army looted from what is now southern Nigeria in 1897.
|
|
However, numerous videos posted on social media that purported to be from Maracaibo showed crowds roaming the streets and people running from looted, damaged buildings with no police in sight.
|
|
They certainly deserve it in this case — for buying looted antiquities, smuggling them into the country, rejecting the warnings of experts, and attempting to diminish the seriousness of their wrongdoing.
|
|
Yet, what remains more hidden in these exhibitions is the fact that in 2007 a formal bid by Ethiopia for the return of a number of looted objects was denied.
|
|
About 220 health centers were destroyed, looted or damaged in Kasai, leading to reduced access to health care and an increased risk in the spread of communicable diseases, UNICEF says.
|
|
The demonstrators set a series of bonfires in the streets, looted shops, and stacked up blocks of pavement to use as projectiles as tension between demonstrators and police ratcheted up.
|
|
The museum returned the statue to India after it said it determined that documents claiming it was legally exported from India were fraudulent and that the item had been looted.
|
|
Ms. Grütters said that the Gurlitt case had spurred her and the German justice minister, Heiko Maas, to discuss a law that would encourage private owners to return looted art.
|
|
You've still delved down into the heart of the dead world, you've still got all the items you've looted, and your other characters still have their traits and experience gains.
|
|
Last week, hundreds of protesters in the administrative capital Pretoria set fire to buildings, looted mostly foreign-owned businesses and clashed with police, who fired rubber bullets at the crowds.
|
|
Ancient treasures pillaged from conflict zones in the Middle East are being offered for sale on Facebook, researchers say, including items that may have been looted by Islamic State militants.
|
|
An article on Wednesday about a researcher in Germany who tracked down art looted by the Nazis misstated the limits of the Washington Principles on the restitution of such works.
|
|
Most recently, in March, a cathedral in Germany agreed to return a Nazi-looted painting to the heirs of an Austrian Jewish couple from whom it was stolen in 1941.
|
|
Even the Rosenbergs have compromised in the past: In 1970, Alexandre Rosenberg accepted a below-market value compensation payment for a looted Degas painting that had surfaced in Cologne, Germany.
|
|
Marianne Rosenberg said it makes no sense to pay for the return of a looted work, especially when the current holder has tried to sell it, knowing it was stolen.
|
|
Snapshot: Above, a looted Ethiopian crown that a Dutch civil servant, Sirak Asfaw (also pictured), found in the suitcase of a guest who was staying at his house in 1998.
|
|
In that case, a forensic archaeologist approached law enforcement officials last May with evidence that the item, known as a krater, had been looted from an ancient grave in Italy.
|
|
A year ago this week, in a pioneering announcement, President Emmanuel Macron of France said that his country would give back 26 looted treasures to the African state of Benin.
|
|