(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 14 - The Bataclan door painted by Banksy in homage to the 90 victims of the massacre of November 13, 2015 will be returned to France, available to the judicial authorities in Paris. Stolen in January 2019 and found on 10 June of this year in a cottage in the Abruzzo countryside, the work of the most famous street artist in the world can be found yesterday evening in a splendid hall of Palazzo Farnese, home of the French Embassy, escorted by the carabinieri of cultural heritage Italians who found her a month ago and who will escort her to the border in the coming days.
Meanwhile, tonight, the sad girl, symbolically painted on one of the emergency exits of the Parisian restaurant, will somehow be the protagonist of the Feast of July 14, a symbol of a "moving memory", underlines, thanking Italy, the ambassador Christian Masset, but also of solidarity and cooperation between the two countries. "A dutiful gesture - comments General Roberto Riccardi, general commander of the Carabinieri for the Protection of Cultural Heritage - the works of art must be returned to their contexts". July 14 "is the feast of freedom and we all celebrate freedom - underlines the prosecutor of L'Aquila Michele Renzo - the symbolic value of this door tells us that for our freedom we will always have to fight".
To return to admire and be moved, the Parisians will have to wait a little longer. The French police arrested six people, the Italian carabinieri reported two more (one is the owner of the cottage where the door was found) but the investigation is not closed. The French authorities, Riccardi explains, will have to examine it. Ambassador Masset advises himself: "For charity's sake, don't touch it. We wouldn't want the French police to isolate the DNA of your prints." (ANSA).
France celebrates the Bataclan Banksy
7/15/2020, 8:53:59 PM
The Bataclan door painted by Banksy in homage to the 90 victims of the massacre of 13 November 2015 will return to France, available to the judicial authorities in Paris. (ANSA)