Six people, suspected of having stolen in 2019 from the Bataclan a work attributed to the anonymous British artist Banksy and which was recently found in Italy, were indicted on Friday and placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday, June 27, we learned from judicial and police sources.
These six people were arrested Tuesday in Isère, Haute-Savoie, in the Var, the Rhône and the Puy-de-Dôme, during an operation led by the direction of the judicial police of Paris (DCPJ), responsible for the investigation opened for aggravated theft, specified a police source.
Two of them were charged with the chief robbery of the organized band and the other four for concealment of theft in the organized band, added the same sources. All six were placed in pre-trial detention.
The work found on a farm in Abruzzo
The work attributed to Banksy, which represents a sad-looking female character, had been painted in 2018 on a metal emergency door of the Parisian performance hall of the Bataclan, in the form of a tribute to the very place where 90 people were killed on November 13, 2015 in a series of jihadist attacks that hit Paris and Saint-Denis. The criminals seized it by cutting the door with a grinder, on the night of January 25 to 26, 2019.
Italian police announced on June 10 that they had found the door on a farm in the Abruzzo countryside during a joint operation by French police and Italian riflemen
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