France celebrates the Bataclan Banksy

(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 14 - The door of the Bataclan painted by Banksy in homage to the 90 victims of the massacre of November 13, 2015 will return to France, at the disposal of the judicial authority of Paris. Stolen in January of 2019 and found on June 10 of this year in a cottage in the Abruzzo countryside, the work of the most famous street artist almondo is from yesterday evening in a splendid hall of Palazzo Farnese, home of the French Embassy, ​​escorted by the carabinieri of the Italian cultural heritage that found it a month ago and that in the next few days they will escort the journey to the border.
   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, Ambassador Christian Masset , but also solidarity and cooperation between the two countries. "A veritable 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". On July 14 "it is the feast of freedom and we will celebrate it all - 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 investigations are not closed. The French authorities, Riccardi explains, will have to examine it. The ambassador Masset recommends: "For goodness sake don't touch it don't want the French police to isolate the DNA of your fingerprints .." (ANSA).