The six suspects were detained by police this week in the departments of Isère and Haute-Savoie in southeastern France. Two of them were charged with theft in an organized group and four others with possession of stolen goods in an organized group. They all ended up in a police cell.
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On June 11, Italian prosecutors showed the public the graffiti of Banksy, who disappeared from Bataclan last year. It was eventually found on the attic of a village house in central Italy. Prosecutor Michele Renzo said the motive for the theft was probably money, the ANSA agency said.
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Graffiti was hiding in the attic
Graffiti on a fire door at the Bataclan Club, where 90 people murdered terrorists in 2015, shows a grieving veiled woman. The painting disappeared from the club last year, when someone stole it with a door. The prosecutor’s office in L’Aquila, which is conducting the investigation, said that thanks to the cooperation of French and Italian authorities, graffiti had been found “in an ingenious shelter” in the attic of a country house near the town of Tortoreto on the Adriatic coast.
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According to the police, only the owner of the property had access to the land of the house. The Chinese family living in the house did not know about the hidden painting at all.
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The owners of the club were enthusiastic
Christophe Cengig, a representative of the French embassy in Italy, said that finding a work was good news for France. “It belongs to Bataclana, it belongs to all French people,” the AP quoted him as saying.
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The owners of the music club were said to be thrilled when they found out about the find. The popular Brit Banksy is one of the increasingly valued authors in the world of fine arts, but no one knows his identity. All that is known about him is that he comes from Bristol and has lived in London since the late 1990s. He made his name for his often socially critical and controversial works, which, in addition to Britain, also appeared on walls in the United States or in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
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Bansky’s oil painting depicting a chimpanzee sitting in parliament was sold for almost ten million pounds (almost 300 million CZK) at Sotheby’s last year.
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