Published:
9 ago 2024 08:05 GMT
It is the fourth graffiti painted by the street artist in the British capital in four days.
A new work by street artist Banksy was stolen on Thursday an hour after it appeared on the streets of London, informa Metro. This is a drawing of a lone wolf howling to the sky painted on a satellite dish in the Peckham district, in the south-east of the British capital.
A video posted on social media shows three men taking the antenna from a rooftop. One of them climbs onto the roof using a ladder they brought with them and unscrews the antenna, then passes it to his accomplice, who was halfway up the ladder, and he to the third. After lowering the antenna to street level, they run away, taking the work and the ladder with them.
🇬🇧#ULTIMAHORA#UnitedKingdom It’s chaos, the crime rate in general is in a country that was once a safe place. The world-famous artist ‘Banksy’ is the victim of a theft of his work hours after publishing it. Great Britain in the year 2024. pic.twitter.com/mDSgPRL3Cp
— Noti-Debatientes (@NotiDebatientes) August 9, 2024
Tom Kellow, who filmed the robbery, said that when the robbers saw he was filming them they became aggressive. “One kicked me in the side and another tried to throw my phone onto the roof. Luckily it hit a tree and fell back down,” Kellow said. He later reported the incident to the authorities. The Metropolitan Police said that so far There are no arrests but the investigation continues.
This is the fourth Banksy work to appear in London in four days. The first was detected Monday and represents a goat mounted perched on a narrow column of a house, from which some rocks fall. The second, which appeared Just a day later, they are the silhouettes of two elephants with their trunks stretched towards each other, painted on two blocked windows of a building. The third drawing, also animal-themed, appeared in London on Wednesday and depicts a trio of monkeys swinging on a bridge.
