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	bimmerfest - BMW Forums - EURO 1.25bn-worth of Art destroyed.....by angry mother
		Mireille Breitwieser has told police in Mulhouse, in eastern France, that she threw 109 precious artefacts including jewellery, pottery and statuettes into the nearby Rhine-Rhone canal after her son Stephane, 31, was detained in Switzerland late last year.
		Breitwieser, who worked across the border in Switzerland as a waiter and kitchen-hand, was arrested on November 19 after he returned to a museum in Lucerne from where, only a few days earlier, he had stolen an antique bugle.
		She immediately alerted Mrs Breitwieser who, eager to destroy the evidence and avoid being prosecuted as an accomplice, dumped the artefacts in the canal and began disposing of the paintings.
	www.bimmerfest.com /forums/printthread.php?t=83555 (739 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Art lover on trial for serial thefts
		Stephane Breitwieser, a 33-year-old French hotel-worker who stunned the art-world when he admitted stealing more than 200 treasures from European museums, went on trial in Strasbourg on Thursday for offences committed in France.
		Breitwieser, who describes himself as a passionate art collector, was extradited in July from Switzerland where he had served two years of a four-year term for similar offences.
		Breitwieser is suspected of taking some 70 works from French museums, but he is charged with just 20 thefts between 1999 and 2001 —; the rest falling outside France's statute of limitations.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/402227.htm (431 words)

	MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
		Breitwieser had been transferred there from Lucerne where police, who at the time suspected him of only a handful of thefts, were having no luck in their questioning of him.
		When Breitwieser came by one day and saw his stolen works were on display for all of Mulhouse to see, he went spare, stopped sending the pictures to his friend, and simply gave him the dimensions of the frames he needed.
		Mireille Breitwieser, who was detained and placed under investigation in May for possession of stolen goods, allegedly tried to dispose of some of the works after her 31-year-old son Stephane was arrested in Switzerland last November.
	www.museum-security.org /02/096.html (5023 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Connoisseur turned crook who plundered Europe's galleries for the simple love of art
		Breitwieser was entranced by a small painting by the 18th century German artist, Christian Wilhelm Dietrich.
		Apart from the scale of the Frenchman's ambition and success as a thief, what distinguishes her son from other, common or garden art robbers is his motive: not lucre, but a genuine love of art and antiques.
		Breitwieser targeted mostly small museums in France and Switzerland, but he has admitted to dipping into collections in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Austria.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,889100,00.html (898 words)

	Pathological art lover jailed for theft spree - theage.com.au
		Stephane Breitwieser, 31, was convicted on Thursday in the Swiss town of Bulle and banned from entering the country for 15 years once he has served his sentence.
		Breitwieser was tried in Bulle because that was where he carried out his first theft, a painting of a woman by German artist Christian Wilhelm Dietrich, while on a visit to a nearby medieval castle.
		Breitwieser defended his acts claiming he was a true connoisseur and that only he could really appreciate the works he stole.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/02/07/1044579934511.html (627 words)

	TNL Forum - Billions of Dollars Worth of Art Destroyed
		Breitwieser in France, that the connection was made between her son and the objects found in the canal.
		Breitwieser, who was arrested along with her son's girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklauss, appeared to have had no inkling of the value of the works that she tossed out.
		Breitwieser, whose grandfather was a painter, liked to describe himself as a self-taught art lover.
	www.the-nextlevel.com /board/printthread.php?t=3235 (1842 words)

	Prison Talk Online - Article: French Court Sentences Art Thief to Prison
		Breitwieser was in court although prison officials said he had been stopped from hanging himself in jail Thursday night when his cellmate raised the alarm.
		Breitwieser's former girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklauss, who acted as a lookout while he stole, was given six months in jail plus a suspended term of a further 12 months.
		Breitwieser, from a well-to-do family, has already served time in Switzerland, where he was sentenced to four years imprisonment for art theft.
	www.prisontalk.com /forums/printthread.php?t=99301 (488 words)

	Stephane Breitwieser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over US$180,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August.
		Stephane Breitwieser (born 1971) is a French art thief who admitted to stealing 239 artworks and other exhibits from museums worth an estimated US$1.4 billion while travelling around Europe and working as a waiter.
		He is different from most other art thieves in that he did not steal for any profit motive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephane_Breitwieser (460 words)

	Scotsman.com Entertainment - the complete entertainment, culture and arts guide to Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Stephane Breitwieser, 33, stood in the dock alongside his mother, Mireille Stengel, 53, who is accused of destroying many of the stolen items following her son’s arrest.
		Breitwieser’s former girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus, 33, who allegedly acted as his look-out on over 100 robberies, is also on trial.
		Breitwieser confessed, giving police a full and detailed list of the stolen items and telling them they were all stored at his mother’s flat.
	entertainment.scotsman.com /visual/headlines_specific.cfm?id=9688 (452 words)

	JS Online: Art Thief: Love of Art Fueled Crime Spree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Breitwieser interrupted court proceedings on several occasions to correct the description of stolen goods and recounted how he once tried to restore an oil painting with instant glue.
		Breitwieser was arrested in November 2001 in the Swiss town of Lucerne.
		Breitwieser threw away objects which he considered to be in poor condition, once discarding an ancient dagger because it cut him as he tried to polish it.
	www.jsonline.com /news/intl/ap/feb03/ap-switzerland-sto020403.asp?format=print (548 words)

	Crook's love of beauty made theft an art form - theage.com.au
		On a March day in 1995, Stephane Breitwieser and his girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklauss, found themselves alone in the Belle Luce room of the magnificent medieval castle at Gruyeres, central Switzerland.
		Breitwieser was entranced by a painting by the 18th century German artist Christian Wilhelm Dietrich.
		Breitwieser, a waiter, had embarked on a six-year art theft career that was to take him across Europe, net him works of art and objets d'art worth tens of millions of dollars, and lead him back to a court at Gruyeres where he faces a 10-year prison sentence.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/02/05/1044318669192.html (561 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Top Stories - Thief mourns sunken treasure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Breitwieser covered the walls of his bedroom and another room in his mother’s house in the French village of Eschentzwiller with treasures from his haul.
		Breitwieser was finally arrested in the Swiss city of Lucerne for making off with a bugle from a museum.
		Breitwieser then gathered the 109 objects, including sculptures, she could not shred with scissors, packed them into the boot of her car, drove 90 miles and dumped the whole lot in the Rhine-Rhone canal.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=130892003 (1056 words)

	Mother of accused French art thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mireille Breitwieser testified on the opening day of the trial of her son, Stephane Breitwieser, 33, who is charged with stealing art from museums across Europe during a seven-year rampage that stunned the art world.
		Breitwieser, a former waiter who once told a Swiss court his desire to acquire art "became a compulsion," said he had been visiting museums alone since he was 10 and had a passion for works from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
		Breitwieser, from a well-to-do family in the eastern French region Alsace, could face up to three years in jail for allegedly stealing 23 works in France, plus two in Denmark and one in Austria.
	www.artspace2000.com /Art_Impact/Issue_2_05/mother_of_accused_french_art_thi.htm (599 words)

	Prolific art thief gets prison in France \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Stephane Breitwieser had confessed to stealing almost 240 works but was on trial for 23 items stolen in France, Denmark and Austria between 1999 and 2001.
		Breitwieser, 33, has always said he stole because of his passion for art and took only what fit into his collection.
		Breitwieser, who was arrested in Switzerland after a theft at Lucerne's Richard Wagner Museum in November 2001, was sentenced to four years in jail by a Swiss court in February 2003 for having stolen 69 works in that country.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050108/news_1n8artthief.html (207 words)

	Entertainment News Article \| Reuters.co.uk
		Breitwieser, 33, tried to hang himself in his cell on Thursday, his lawyer said, but appeared in the court in the eastern city of Strasbourg hours later.
		Breitwieser has always said he stole because of his passion for art and took only what fitted into his collection.
		Breitwieser, who was arrested in Switzerland after a theft at Lucerne's Richard Wagner Museum in November 2001, was sentenced to 4 years in jail by a Swiss court in February 2003 for having stolen 69 works in that country.
	www.buzztracker.org /2005/01/08/cache/432070.html (347 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Suicidal art thief gets 26 months
		The prosecutor in his trial had said Breitwieser acted in a "narcissistic" and "egotistical" manner, irrespective of whether he had sold the stolen works or not, and called for him to receive the maximum sentence of three years.
		Breitwieser's mother, Mireille Stengel, received a three-year sentence with an 18-month suspension for having destroyed some of the works stolen by her son, who had stored them at her home in Eschentzwiller, eastern France.
		Breitwieser's ex-girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklauss, was awarded a six-month prison term, with another 12 months suspended, on charges of receiving stolen items.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4155989.stm (421 words)

	Thief's mother destroys treasures worth $2.5bn - smh.com.au
		Mrs Breitwieser, 53, told police she did it because she was very angry with her son when he was arrested.
		Breitwieser, a convicted shoplifter and the grandson of a Strasbourg artist, told police he loved art.
		Police said Mrs Breitwieser told them she destroyed the paintings because she was furious at her son.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/16/1021544049645.html (713 words)

	Thief driven by love for art : HTTabloid.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Stephane Breitwieser, whose mother destroyed many of the stolen pieces after his arrest, has confessed to stealing some 240 works -- ranging from 16th and 17th century masters to antiques -- in six European countries.
		Breitwieser's mother is accused of throwing some artworks into the Rhine-Rhone canal near their home in Mulhouse and of putting others out for the rubbish collectors after her son's arrest.
		Breitwieser has always declared he was stealing out of "love of art" and did not aim to make a profit from it.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/7242_1186628,001800080000.htm (528 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The court in the eastern French city of Strasbourg also ordered that Stephane Breitwieser pay damages, with the amount to be studied in May. The court concurred with the prosecutor's request for the maximum three-year sentence, but suspended 10 months of it.
		Breitwieser's ex-girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklauss, who acted as a lookout while he stole, was given a six-month prison term with another 12 months suspended, but is expected to get her sentence reduced because she has a young child.
		Breitwieser has acknowledged stealing 239 artworks from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland -- although he was only tried in Strasbourg for 20 works stolen in France, plus two in Denmark and one in Austria.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/world/archives/2005/01/09/2003218656/print (454 words)

	The Gentleman Thief - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
		Stephane Breitwieser, 33, who carried out some of the brashest art thefts the world has ever seen, sat sobbing in a French courtroom earlier this month.
		Breitwieser was convicted Jan. 7 of stealing more than 200 works of art from museums around Europe; his mother was convicted of receiving them.
		Breitwieser's lawyer, Thierry Moser, remembers thinking, "This boy is psychologically disturbed," tormented by an obsessive relationship with his divorced mother and possibly believing he deserved the pieces more than museums or the public did.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6830800/site/newsweek (846 words)

	CNN.com - Police fear $1.4bn artwork ruined - May 18, 2002
		Mireille Breitwieser 51, is being held for questioning by Swiss police after paintings were found cut to shreds in the suspect's bedroom, Pascal Schultz, a prosecutor in the eastern city of Strasbourg, said.
		The 31-year-old suspect Stephane Breitwieser has been detained by Swiss police since last November on an international arrest warrant issued by the French, Rolf Koch, spokesman for the Lucerne police, told The Associated Press on Friday.
		The companion is suspected of having accompanied Breitwieser on numerous expeditions, serving as a lookout, the prosecutor said.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/17/art.theft (378 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| French art lover admits crime spree
		Stephane Breitwieser, 32, is accused of stealing 69 works from museums across Switzerland since 1995.
		Mr Breitwieser then went on to steal more than 200 paintings and artefacts from France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, it is alleged.
		But much of what he stole was destroyed by his mother, Mireille Breitwieser, who cut up works and threw antiques into the Rhine-Rhone canal when she learnt of her son's arrest.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/entertainment/2720957.stm (432 words)

	Stolen art in France ended up in canal
		No less puzzling, Breitwieser's son, Stephane, 31, who is in jail in Switzerland, made no effort to re-sell the 60 paintings and 112 art objects that he has admitted stealing.
		Stephane Breitwieser kept his stolen art works in a bedroom at his mother's house in Mulhouse, in eastern France.
		Mireille Breitwieser, who was arrested Tuesday along with her son's girl-friend, Anne-Catherine Kleinlauss, appears to have had no inkling of the value of the works that she tried to destroy.
	www.yubanet.com /artman/publish/printer_494.shtml (871 words)

	CBC Arts: French art thief receives three-year sentence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Despite his claims of simply possessing an overwhelming passion for fine art and his lawyers' arguments that he never sought to sell any of the stolen pieces, prosecutors lobbied for the three-year sentence and stressed that a theft — whether it be of cars or art, for sale or not — is still a theft.
		In the Swiss trial it was said that Breitwieser's audacious and extended spree — during which he supposedly walked into museums and stuffed stolen art into a bag, inside his coat or tossed it outside of windows — netted the former waiter a cache worth up to $1.6 billion.
		Breitwieser, who experts believe to be one of the most consistently successful art thieves ever, was finally arrested in Lucerne, Switzerland, in November 2001.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/01/11/Arts/frenchthiefsentence050111.html (495 words)

	Four years' jail for thief who had a compulsive love of art - smh.com.au
		Stephane Breitwieser, 31, was sentenced to four years' jail in the Swiss town of Bulle on Thursday and banned from entering the country for 15 years once he has served his sentence.
		The court was told that Breitwieser acted out of a "compulsive" and "obsessive" love of art and a pathological need to surround himself with oil paintings and antiques.
		Breitwieser defended his acts, saying he was a true connoisseur and only he could really appreciate the works he stole.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/07/1044579932262.html (497 words)

	BBC Mundo \| De todo un poco \| Otra condena para "amante del arte" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Breitwieser había pasado dos años en una prisión suiza antes de ser extraditado a su país natal.
		Breitwieser había sido arrestado en 2001 cerca del Museo Richard Wagner en Lucerna, Suiza, cuando se escapaba con un cuerno de caza de 1584.
		La madre de Breitwieser, Mireille Stengel, fue condenada a tres años de privación de libertad, con una suspensión de 18 meses, por no haber denunciado que muchas de las obras robadas estaban escondidas en su casa y por haber destruido algunas de ellas.
	212.58.240.132 /hi/spanish/misc/newsid_4158000/4158003.stm (434 words)

	French Waiter-Cum-Art Thief Attempts Se Donner La Mort \| cracklog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Stephané Breitwieser, 33, was caught by prison officers after a cellmate raised the alarm.
		Breitwieser was jailed for four years by a Swiss court in 2003 but was extradited to France last year.
		Breitwieser's lawyer said he felt "deeply guilty" that his mother was on trial.
	www.cracklog.com /node/111 (568 words)

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