Between 1995 and 2001, Bruno, an art connoisseur, "visited" a number of European museums and made a veritable laughing stock of their security services. Without violence or elaborated preparation, he stole 239 works of art, some of them priceless pieces. Yet what ensued was even more entertaining for the media: seeing the police dive into a canal in eastern France to retrieve the paintings. Fearing retaliation, Bruno’s mother had thrown the majority of her son’s spoils into the canal and had destroyed a Bruegel and a Cranach. Breitwieser was sentenced to jail for five years for stealing the enormous amount of artwork and was released in 2005. He then published a book about his compulsive behavior, admitting that "collecting is like a disease that eats away at you night and day. You can never get enough..." The man, who in person seemed rather pleasant, criticized museums for their ineffective security and said he would be eager to help them improve their systems. With that kind of rhetoric, one might actually have believed that his days of theft were over. But the 39-year-old is now accused of stashing 28 paintings and miscellaneous items at his mother's house. He apparently admitted the facts to the police, and now risks a seven-year jail term.