From Spiegel Online:
Police in Bretagne have arrested a 53-year-old man suspected of the thefts of 170 garden gnomes. However, it is proving difficult to return the gnomes to their real owners — the thief painted them different colors, making identification tricky.
If this were in the United States, I wonder if the government would use ideological ties to the Garden Gnome Liberation Front as a reason to push for “terrorism enhancement” penalties.