Waiter/Art Thief Faces Prison For Art Theft Spree

A waiter who stole paintings worth tens of millions of dollars over a six-year period, faces a ten-year prison term. “Stéphane 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.Among the vandalised canvasses were works by Antoine Watteau and Peter Bruegel. About 110 objects, valued at more than £6m, have been recovered including glassware, china, and musical instruments. But up to 60 paintings have not been found, and investigators fear they were destroyed” by the man’s mother.