MADRID, Oct 11, 2007 (AFP) - Basque ETA militants are most likely to blame for the theft from a French plant of chemicals that could be used to make explosives, Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said Thursday.

Speaking after a weekly cabinet meeting, she said 'everything indicates' it was ETA members who broke into the Labema chemical factory in the town of Lorette, near the central eastern city of Saint-Etienne overnight Wednesday.

SAINT-ETIENNE, France, Oct 11, 2007 (AFP) - French authorities suspect Basque ETA militants of breaking into a French plant and stealing chemicals that could be used to make explosives, a judicial source said Thursday.

Four masked thieves broke into the Labema chemical factory in the town of Lorette, near the central eastern city of Saint-Etienne overnight, said the source. The two men and two women fled by car.

'The mode of operation resembles that which is used by ETA members,' said the source.

Police in Lyon have opened an investigation.

GENEVA, Oct 9, 2007 (AFP) - Switzerland on Tuesday returned to Turkey a bronze hand which had been looted from a Roman archaelogical site near the southwestern Turkish town of Denizli, Swiss authorities said.

The artefact from the ancient Roman city of Laodiceia was sold at auction in Germany in 2005 to a Swiss bidder, who handed over the bronze after he learned that it had been stolen, the Swiss Federal Culture Office said in a statement.

LOS ANGELES, Oct 4, 2007 (AFP) - A man was charged here Thursday with trying to sell stolen photos, computers and documents from the set of the fourth 'Indiana Jones' sequel of director Steven Spielberg, court officials said.

Roderick Davis was arrested Tuesday during sting operation where police officers posed as interested buyers of the stolen goods, The Hollywood Reporter said.

BERLIN, Sept 29, 2007 (AFP) - A German employee who stole over a million screws from the carpentry company he worked for to sell them on the Internet has been arrested after his cut-price online sales raised suspicions, police said Saturday.

The 33-year-old man was nabbed this week in Wuerzburg, southern Germany.

Officers said each night he left for home, he took with him between 2,000 and 7,000 screws.

His illicit selling of the small fastners over the past two years netted him an estimated 110,000 euros (150,000 dollars), they said.

COPENHAGEN, Sept 19, 2007 (AFP) - One of Denmark's national treasures, a set of two horns made in the 1800s, was recovered by police Tuesday after being stolen in the early hours of Monday, local television station TV2Syd reported.

Police inspector Steen Edeling told the station in the central town of Vejle that the horns had been found. He did not give any details, but a press conference was to be held in Vejle at 0800 GMT Wednesday.

COPENHAGEN, Sept 17, 2007 (AFP) - One of Denmark's national treasures, a set of two horns made in the 1800s, was stolen in the early hours of Monday, Danish police said.

Called 'Guldhornene' in Danish, or the Golden Horns, the pieces are silver replicas of two original gold horns made in 400 A.D. which were stolen in 1802 and destroyed.

The replicas, with a thin gold coating, were on loan from the National Museum of Denmark for an exhibit in Jelling, near the central Danish town of Vejle, when they were stolen by thieves who smashed a display case.

NICE, FRANCE, Aug 5, 2007 (AFP) - Hooded and armed men Sunday staged a brazen afternoon heist at a museum in the French Riviera city of Nice, making off with four priceless paintings: two Bruegels, a Sisley and a Monet.

Between four and five men entered the Beaux-Arts Jules Cheret museum in the the heart of Nice on Sunday afternoon, when entry was free for the public.

Police said there were only about six visitors in the late 19th century building at the time. The robbers threatened staff members and then took the four paintings, put them in bags, and then escaped.

NICE, France, Aug 5, 2007 (AFP) - A number of hooded and armed men held up staff at the fine arts museum in the French Riviera city of Nice on Sunday, grabbing four valuable paintings -- two Bruegels, a Sisley and a Monet -- according to a police source.

An unknown number of thieves entered the neighborhood where the Beaux-Arts Jules Cheret museum is located in the centre of Nice.

PARIS, July 31, 2007 (AFP) - Burglars stole a computer and a small sum of money from the home of Segolene Royal, the defeated Socialist candidate in France's presidential elections, police said Tuesday.

The burglary took place on Friday night at her home in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt.

'It happened very quickly, and there does not appear to have been a break-in. One of her sons was there at the time and discovered the theft,' said a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.

PARIS, July 31, 2007 (AFP) - Burglars stole a computer and a small sum of money from the home of Segolene Royal, the defeated Socialist candidate in France's presidential elections, police said Tuesday.

The burglary took place on Friday night at her home in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt.

'It happened very quickly, and there does not appear to have been a break-in. One of her sons was there at the time and discovered the theft,' said a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.