Eight accused will answer to justice for the theft of Banksy from the Bataclan attack

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Eight people suspected of having participated in the robbery of a Bataclan door with an attributed drawing Banksy in tribute to the victims of the attacks they will go on trial at the Paris Criminal Court. The investigation was closed on March 2 and the judge determined the imputation of three people for robbery in an organized gang and five more for cover-up, according to AFP.

Banksy painted ‘The Sad Girl’ in 2018 on the emergency door of the French party room. The British artist thus wanted to pay homage to the 90 people who were killed in that place on the night of November 13, 2015.

In the early morning of January 25 to 26, 2019, three hooded robbers They managed to get hold of the valued work by cutting the door with a metal saw and then fleeing in a white van.

The robbery generated a great rejection

The work was found in Italy a year and a half later, in June 2020, in a farmhouse in Abruzzo, during an operation by the French police and the Italian carabinieri. Returned to France by the Italian authorities, the door was sealed and guarded by the Paris judicial police.

Shortly after, six men suspected of having been part of the commando that had stolen the work and then transported it to Italy were prosecuted and imprisoned. Two other suspects were charged in 2021.

According to sources close to the investigation, the authorities point to Mehdi Meftah as the person who commissioned the removal of the mural. The defendant, who denies the charges, is the creator of the brand of fancy t-shirts called ‘BL1.D’, whose peculiarity is to sew a real 18-carat gold ingot on the neckline. Meftah won a large sum of money in the lottery in 2017.

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