“Two men on Charles Bridge were detained by police officers after they received word early in the morning that they had stolen a painting with the words ‘The Beatles’ from Lennon’s wall. Typical excuses followed. At first, that there was a picture of them, that they could prove it in peace, then they claimed that they had found it leaning against the garbage cans near Kampa, “the police wrote.
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According to them, the men tried to take one of the local paintings from the artists, but a witness saw them.
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“Due to the early hours of the morning, the patrol was unable to contact the park administrator about the value of the painting, so both suspects were handed over to the state police patrol. Two knives were found in one of them during a security search, “added the police.
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The wall of the Maltese Garden on Grand Priory Square gained its fame and its current name after the death of John Lennon in 1980. At that time, messages and symbols concerning the singer, the Beatles or the peace movement began to appear on it.
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Last year, the wall underwent reconstructions initiated by the Order of the Knights of Malta, which is its owner. Thirty artists took part in the new decoration, people should write messages only in a reserved place.
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