Looting facts for kids

Looting (also known as sacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging) is to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence. It may involve forcible robbery, but is not the same as robbery.

Images for kids

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  The plundering of the Frankfurter Judengasse, 22 August 1614.

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  The sacking and looting of Mechelen by Spanish troops led by the Duke of Alba, 2 October 1572.

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  Private security guards, barbed wire fencing, and boarded up windows to prevent looting of department stores in New York City during mass unrest in the United States, 7 June 2020

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  The Beit Ghazaleh Museum of Aleppo was looted of its contents prior to being hit by explosions (photo 2017)

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  General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., inspect art treasures stolen by Germans and hidden in salt mine in Germany (1945)

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  Looters attempting to enter a cycle shop in North London during the 2011 England riots

See also

In Spanish: Saqueo para niños