Some of La Plata's residents set up roadblocks to protect their neighbourhoods from looters.
While the building has all but been left to squatters and looters, the structure still stands.
Looters and armed gangs are reported to be still roaming the streets of Bangui.
Paratroopers have started to apprehend looters, who have been stealing from the dead and destitute.
This past fall Guatemalan police recovered a 600-pound Mayan altar from a gang of looters.
After all, leaving entire neighborhoods empty leaves them open to looters and other criminal opportunists.
They showed us the places that had been broken down when thousands of looters went in.
In the coastal resort of Hammamet, looters trashed Mr Materi's villa and slaughtered his pet tiger.
The Marines did come briefly, firing over the heads of the looters, he said.
Empty homes in the rural area could make for an inviting target for looters, he said.
Hundreds of people took to London streets to clean up broken glass and debris left by looters.
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On Wednesday night, some of La Plata's residents set up roadblocks to "protect their neighbourhoods from looters".
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The BBC's Ben Brown said a UK commander had promised they would start arresting looters on Wednesday.
Well, yes: high-margin businesses are competition magnets, just like vaults full of cash must be guarded from looters.
The looters left, but came back when the Marines departed and cleaned up the job, devastating the museum.
Looters sacked the German embassy and a French cultural centre in the capital, taking furniture, fridges and electrical equipment.
Looters have meticulously stripped Gharmat Ali, down to the gears and motors from pumps, even the buildings' metal siding.
Floodlights, presumably on to deter looters, revealed plots of land where houses once stood, just over a month ago.
By the time he reached Knez Petrova, looters were already swarming the boulevard.
They want to attend to crops and livestock and guard their houses against looters, despite a new danger of mudflows.
Our correspondent says thousands of ruins are thought to remain undiscovered, making Peru a treasure-hunting destination for archaeologists and looters alike.
We dodged barricades put up by residents to discourage looters and around piles of bricks from homes newly damaged from aftershocks.
In the 1970s when new sites were discovered by looters in northern Colombia it caused the world gold market to crash.
"My officers need to focus on rioters and looters, not those vigilantes, " said Steve Kavanagh, deputy assistant for the London Metropolitan Police.
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But police said on Monday that they had increased their patrols, arrested 12 looters and had recovered substantial property in the area.
North of the city, in Enfield, local residents chased after suspected looters.
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Some came along with money, buying supplies from looters -- in some cases in the hopes of selling for more somewhere else.
They're not looters, but we certainly will take advantage of anything that we can to do our job in an ethical manner.
Another excuse is that many of the documents that might have helped the Americans to refine their search have been destroyed by looters.
And the Metropolitan police have used Flickr to post photos of suspected rioters and looters in places like West Norwood and Croydon.
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