En Avril 2003, en Irak (via @asa_wire):
Carry on looting, Hoon tells civilians in Basra - Telegraph
►http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/1426921/Carry-on-looting-Hoon-tells-civilians-in-Basra.html
Iraqi civilians were given the go-ahead by Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, to help themselves to furniture and other items from headquarters and palaces of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
He told the Commons yesterday that most looting was so far confined to Iraqi citizens “liberating” items from facilities of the regime - “redistributing that wealth among the Iraqi people”.