Six people were arrested and charged in France for the theft, in 2019, of a work by Banksy in homage to the victims of the bloody attack in the Parisian auditorium of the Bataclan, a painting found two weeks ago in Italy .
It was during a vast operation led by the direction of the judicial police of Paris and carried out Tuesday that they were arrested in the Alps and in central regions, according to a police source.
On Friday, two of them were charged with theft in organized gangs and the other four in concealment of robbery in organized gangs, it was specified by police and judicial sources. All six were placed in pre-trial detention.
No indication was given on their identity, nor on what would have motivated their gesture.
The work attributed to the famous British street artist Banksy had been painted in 2018 on a metal emergency door of the Bataclan.
Organized gang robbery
The painting, done with stencil and white paint, represents a young girl with a sad look, as a tribute to the very place where 90 people were killed on November 13, 2015, during a series of attacks jihadists who struck the French capital and Saint-Denis, in its suburbs.
The criminals, hooded, took it by cutting the door with the grinder on the night of January 25 to 26, 2019. The scene had been filmed by video surveillance cameras.
The flight had sparked “deep indignation,” in the words of the Bataclan team. This “symbol of meditation and belonging to all, residents, Parisians, citizens of the world has been taken away from us”, she then deplored.
Banksy, who preserves his identity, has claimed on his Instagram account several of his achievements, including that in this performance hall.
Italian police announced on June 10 that they had found the door, in a farmhouse in the Abruzzo countryside (center), during a joint operation by French police and Italian riflemen.
“Work found under a roof”
A discovery that had moved and relieved and in which a French police officer who participated in the intervention of the police in the theater in November 2015 took part.
“The work was found under a roof, in an attic, leaning against a wall. So not optimal conditions, but we immediately saw in the eyes of our French colleague that it was in good condition. And that made us happy, ”Colonel Emanuele Mazzotta, commander of the riflemen of Alba Adriatica, told the press on June 10.
Relief also for the French police commander Christophe Cengig, responsible, at the French Embassy in Rome, for the fight against organized crime and who had also taken part in the operation.
(AFP / Le Matin)
Created: 06.27.2020, 5:21 p.m.
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