PARIS, Aug 1 — A stolen cutter, CCTV footage, phone taps, loose-tongued suspects... this is how an artwork by famed street artist Banksy painted on the door of the Bataclan club in Paris was discovered in Italy 18 months after being stolen. At 4:00 am on January 26, 2019, three men wearing...
In this file photo taken on June 11, 2020, an Italian Carabinieri poses near a piece of art attributed to Banksy, that was stolen at the Bataclan in Paris in 2019, and found in Italy, during a press conference in L’Aquila. — AFP pic
“It was an important investigation” for the officers, some of whom had worked on the Bataclan attack, a source close to the case tells AFP. With a link now established between the suspects and the theft of Banksy’s “the sad young girl”, police use wire-taps and surveillance to track down the receivers of the stolen artwork.
Police decide to detain the whole gang, but the arrests are hampered by the coronavirus lockdown, the source tells AFP.
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