looter

One day, after visiting family, he returned to find his house near the city centre had been hit by shells - the roof and walls were damaged - and looters had ransacked what was left.

Given the US was previously calling these same close allies cheaters, looters and pillagers, there is no way this was the strategy all along.

Several of the women also echoed something I have repeatedly heard elsewhere - they can finally sleep again, after lying awake nights afraid that RSF looters would break in.

Early on, the Save the Tiles group was on high alert for looters in the burn zone.

“The point isn’t to fill prisons with a whole bunch of looters. The idea is to deter these looters in the first place.”