United Kingdom Ex-birdkeeper jailed for stealing penguins & selling them on Facebook As well as penguins, he stole spoonbills, egrets and macaws. 30/10/2020
Romania Inside the rise and fall of Romania's £2.5m book heist gang They abseiled through skylights to steal some of the world's rarest books. They left DNA at the scene. 28/09/2020
Romania Stolen books worth €2.7m found in Romanian basement during police raid The 200 works included books by Goya, Galileo and Isaac Newton. 18/09/2020
Italy French tourist fined €1,000 for taking sand from Sardinia beach White grains of sand from Sardinia's pristine beaches are considered precious and are a protected resource. 03/09/2020
Netherlands Museum hits out after Van Gogh painting stolen during COVID-19 closure The burglary from the Singer Laren museum, located 32 kms south-east of Amsterdam, occurred on what would have been the Dutch master's 167th birthday. 30/03/2020
Italy Italian police arrest six over deadly nightclub stampede Six people including five teenagers and a 39-year-old woman who had accompanied her daughter to the Lanterna Azzurra nightclub in Corinaldo, were killed in the stampede on December 8, 2018. 03/08/2019
France Thieves hack pumps remotely to steal petrol worth €150,000, say police The bizarre particularity of the operation? No petrol pump was forced or syphoned from. 29/03/2019
Germany Four men go on trial accused of stealing huge gold coin from museum A quartet has gone on trial accused of stealing a huge €3.75 million gold coin from a flagship German museum. 10/01/2019
