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In June 2018, Banksy created a mural of a
veiled female figure in a mournful pose on a fire-exit door of
the concert venue where 90 people were killed in one of the
coordinated attacks which caused 130 fatalities in the French
capital.
The door, stolen in January 2019, was found last month in a
farmhouse by the Italian police and given to the French
ambassador in Rome on France's most important national holiday,
Bastille Day.
"It is a very moving moment to get back this door on our
national holiday... it was witness to the massacre that claimed
the lives of 90 people," French Ambassador to Rome Christian
Masset said during a ceremony at the embassy.
"Many people in the audience escaped through this emergency
door. It has lived, heard and seen the whole massacre," he
added.
Banksy, whose real identity is unknown, has become one of the
most well-known personalities of the modern art scene with a
series of inspired works in public places that combine street
art techniques with topical themes.
Last month, he published a new artwork online as people around
the world protested the killing of George Floyd, the black
American who died in Minneapolis after a police officer knelt on
his neck for nearly nine minutes while detaining him on May 25.
On Tuesday, Banksy published on his Instagram account a video of
a new art work installed on a London underground train titled
"If you don't mask - you don't get" showing a sneezing rat.
(Reporting by Yara Nardi; writing by Angelo Amante, editing by
Gavin Jones and Alexandra Hudson)
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