At the Bataclan in Italy : how the police recovered the work of Banksy

Two people were accused and écrouees of the head of organized robbery, and four others for possession of stolen goods of organized theft. The fly that grinds in Isè

Two people were accused and écrouees of the head of organized robbery, and four others for possession of stolen goods of organized theft.

A fly in Isère, video surveillance, eavesdropping, suspects talkative… This is what the young sad girl of the street artist Banksy looked like, painted on the door of the Bataclan in Paris as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 attack, found in Italy a year and a half after its publication In the night with On January 25-26, 2019, at 4 am, three men, hooded and masked, cut him on the door grinder at the Bataclan. This is not just any door.

This is the back door of Paris’ Salle de Spectacle, where street artist Banksy painted the Sad Young Girl (the girl is sad), in tribute to the 90 people killed on November 13, 2015, at a concert at this venue, during a series of jihadist attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, in which a total of 130 people died that night.

The operation lasted only a few minutes. Three thieves got into a Citroën van whose license plates were hidden, according to video surveillance images collected by police officers of the Second District Judicial Police (2nd DPJ) in charge of the investigation.

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“It was an important inquiry for them,” notes a source close to the site investigation, “some of them made discoveries in the Bataclan in the attacks.” Working on the phone is “only” the phones in the Bataclan and then the ride to the van followed by video surveillance. The numbers have been tapped.

A year later, the police challenge three men suspected of breaking into a pet store in Grenoble-Isère. The events that took place a few days before the flight, in the Bataclan. One of the stolen items is a mill. One of the suspects boasted that he was on the flight to Paris.

A connection is then established between these suspects and the “sad girl” theft. Eavesdropping and surveillance can identify three proofreaders. Investigators learn that Banksy’s work traveled to Isère, then to the south of France, then to Italy.

“Difficult to resell”

In Italy, it is first stored at the Hotel Tortoreto, in the Abruzzo region (center), and the institution that performs the work is transferred to the farm in Sant Omero, ten kilometers away. The owner of the hotel, learning about one of the fences, the suspect Mehdi Meftah, said that he did not know what was in the bulky package.

The investigators then decided to arrest the entire band. Unfortunately, the operation is at a standstill due to the detention – says a source close to the investigation.

On June 10, the business entered the Abruzzo region during a joint operation with the Italian police. The publicity surrounding the seizure obliges us to speed up the arrests. In the days that followed, nine people were arrested in the departments of Isère, Haute-Savoie, Var, Rhône, Puy-de-Dome. One of the robbers is still on the run.

Two people were accused and écrouees of the head of organized robbery, and four others for possession of stolen organized theft, whose Mehdi Meftah. The 39-year-old, with the physique of a boxer with tattooed arms, grew up in the city of Lyon. He is the creator of the brand of luxury t-shirts called “BL1.D”, whose specialty is sewing a real ingot of 18 carat gold on the neckline. He is suspected to be the patron of the notebook

“His associates say that he wanted to keep the door on one of his houses that he is designing,” claims a source close to the investigation, who agrees that this kind of business is “difficult to resell.” “How much do you resell the mona lisa,” according to his lawyer, Maître Yves Sauvayre, quoted by the Sunday Newspaper, denying the role of his client’s sponsor. “It was put before a fait accompli. He accepted this door to help the ancient knowledge of skinny cow time. Not a penny was paid,” JDD assured.

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Currently, the door of the “sad girl”, delivered to France by the Italian authorities, is sealed and under strict surveillance in the premises of the judicial police in Paris.

Date of update: August 1, 2020 at 08:58

Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: newstars.edu.vn

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