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Two men charged with stealing Banksy artwork in London | The “Balloon Girl” is valued at $355,000

Two men They will have to appear before the Kingston Court on October 9 after having been accused of being the authors of the theft of a famous work by the urban artist Banksy from a gallery in London last Sunday.

According to a statement from London Police, “The girl with the balloon“, the drawing depicting a girl reaching out her hand towards a red heart-shaped balloon, It was stolen at 11pm on Sunday 8 September from a gallery on New Cavendish Streetin the city center.

The BBC broadcast the video provided by Grove Gallery from its security cameras of the moment in which The criminal is seen breaking the glass door of the entrance at night to steal the famous drawing in a matter of seconds.

The art gallery was holding an exhibition paying tribute to Banksy’s work from August 21 to September 7. Meanwhile, the gallery’s management told the police that It was the only piece stolen that night. The work is estimated at a value of 270,000 pounds ($355,000).

After the crime an investigation was launched and the police caught the two suspects of the robbery. In the meantime, The work “was found and returned to the gallery”London police said.

The robbery suspects, Larry Fraser47 years old, and James LoveThe 53-year-olds were arrested and charged with “burglary of a non-residential building” and appeared in Kingston court on Thursday before being released on bail ahead of their next appearance next month.

The gallery told BBC News that At the time of the robbery, artworks worth more than £1.8 million were on display. (US$ 2,366,127). All the art pieces were removed and stored after the robbery.

The artist Banksy, whose identity is a mystery, generates a great deal of media attention every time he leaves a graffiti or artistic intervention in the world. In August, he created a stir with nine works of art about a series of animals in different neighborhoods of the British capital: a gorilla, elephants, a goat, three monkeys, pelicans, piranhas, a wolf, a cat and a rhinoceros.

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