His father was Hildebrand Gurlitt, a well-known pre-war art dealer, who, despite his own Jewish heritage, was permitted by the Nazis to sell off confiscated paintings or works that were condemned as "degenerate art" to foreign clients.
Reporters attending a press conference on the success of the police department's anti-gun campaign were accidentally shot when a confiscated gun went off in an officer's hand.
All confiscated meat is hauled off & burned in incinerators.
All drugs confiscated are audited, signed off and handed to the authorities.
On that day, they confiscated all the phones off everyone several hours before he arrived.
Despite this, years after the passing of the 1973 act and the excavation of the ship, lingering conflicts with salvage legislation remained a threat to the Mary Rose project as "personal" finds such as chests, clothing and cooking utensils risked being confiscated and auctioned off.
But goods that the government confiscates and sells off, whether to funnel money toward the victims of a crime or back into law enforcement, are more varied than just homes.
We have our mouthwash and water confiscated, we take our shoes off, we're bombarded by X-rays and herded like cattle, photographed and eavesdropped upon.
(A number of his major works were owned by museums and collectors there, until the Nazis confiscated them and sold them off in Occupied Norway).
Once out of jail, dissidents complain that their telephones are cut off, their passports confiscated and their families harassed.This bullying seems all the more peculiar since, as Mr Tlili proudly points out, "Tunisia is not Iraq".
