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Eight men are on trial for stealing Banksy from Paris attack scene

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Eight men are on trial for stealing Banksy from Paris attack scene

  • Seven French defendants and one Italian go on trial for stealing a Banksy artwork; from a site of the 2015 attacks.
  • The door of the Bataclan concert venue was decorated in 2018; with the stencil of a mournful young woman by the anonymous British street artist.
  • The art work was given an estimated value of up to one million euros.

Seven French suspects and one Italian face charges of taking a Banksy artwork from a terrorist attack site in 2015. On Wednesday, eight men were charged with removing a Banksy artwork that was painted on the Bataclan concert venue’s door; to commemorate 90 people murdered in the city’s 2015 attacks.
The seven French defendants and one Italian are accused of stealing the metal door from the building; and transporting it to Italy before morning in January 2019.

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It was adorned in 2018 by an unnamed British street artist with a stencil of a melancholy young woman; giving it an estimated worth of up to one million euros ($1.1 million).
On January 26, 2019, a white van with hidden number plates was seen halting in an alleyway; running near the Bataclan in central Paris.

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