"Stéphane Breitwieser"
(Painting)
Jean-paul Matifat
___"Stéphane Breitwieser"
Oil on canvas / inch: 87 x 63 - 2005
P a i n t i n g
Stephane Breitwieser is a thief of cultural artefacts, he stole 240 artworks from 1995 to 2001.
For seven years, it flies in broad daylight paintings by masters, statues, bas-reliefs, weapons, and so on.
The works accumulated in his room is his private collection, only visible by him and his companion.
In 2001 in Switzerland, after coming back at the scene of a robbery, it is recognized by a guard of the museum and immediately arrested.
After his arrest in Switzerland, his mother throws in the trash and in the Rhine-Rhone canal, all of the works stolen.
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