a bugle just a bare attic apartment much like any other wait what on witnessing her boyfriend being apprehended by the police at the wagner museum in lucerne and catherine had immediately realised the dangers and sprung into action driving back home and alerting the one person every man can rely on when really hits the fan his mother and mrs breitweiser had outdone herself over the course of several days she'd gathered up every single piece of art her son had ever stolen packed it all up into her car and gotten it the hell out of there anything that sank ended up in the nearby rhone ryan canal and the paintings those centuries-old priceless works of art were burnt to ashes as part of what may very well have been the most expensive private bonfire in history the last few odds and ends were unceremoniously dumped in a nearby forest had the rhone ryan canal been just a little deeper stefan brightweiser might once again have slipped through the fingers of the justice system but it wasn't to be hikers spotted a curious twinkle from the depths of the canal about a week after the hall had been dumped and the rest is history police frogmen were called in to dredge the waterway and close to a hundred treasures from stefan's mighty horde were fished out and catalogued of course at this point the authorities had no idea how all that stuff had actually ended up in the canal but one of the officers holding stefan in switzerland got wind of the find and on a whim decided to see if he could link the treasures to his bugle thief after all they been found not too far from his home city during an interrogation the officers showed stefan a picture of one of the artifacts recovered from the canal stefan had no idea what his mother had been up to since his arrest and so on seeing an image of one of his most prized possessions in the hands of the police he reached the obvious conclusion they'd searched his apartment and found his horde the game was up stefan promptly confessed to having stolen the piece matter of factly explaining when and where he'd taken it the officer was absolutely delighted he'd figured this whole idea was a long shot but he'd hit the jackpot first time when the next image he produced got the same result an immediate detailed confession from stefan the officer could hardly believe his look what followed over the next couple of hours was one of the most unusual scenes ever played out in a police interrogation room stefan was shown image after image of rare and expensive artwork stolen from all around europe and he confessed to having stolen every single piece never in their wildest dreams had the swiss police thought that this one man could have possibly taken everything they dredged out of the canal like all on his own and yet quite clearly he had so what punishment does a man receive for stealing over a billion dollars worth of art hands chopped off at the wrists hung drawn and quartered guillotined to the face no just three years in prison stephane only served a little over two of those his mother for her part in disposing of the art served just NUMBER_TOKEN months and catherine hinting
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