{"id":22566,"date":"2022-06-23T19:44:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T23:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=22566"},"modified":"2022-06-23T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T23:44:42","slug":"french-banksy-eight-guilty-in-theft-of-bataclan-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/06\/23\/french-banksy-eight-guilty-in-theft-of-bataclan-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"French Banksy: Eight guilty in theft of Bataclan mural"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three years after an artwork by graffiti artist Banksy was stolen from a door at the Bataclan music hall in Paris, eight people have been convicted of theft or handling stolen goods.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The mural “sad girl” was stencilled as a tribute to the 90 people murdered in a 2015 terror attack on the venue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A hooded gang removed it from an emergency door with angle grinders in January 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It was found 18 months later in an attic at a rural farmhouse in Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The mural was painted on a door that leads into an alley used as an escape route by many of the spectators who had been watching a concert by US band Eagles of Death Metal on the night of the 2015 attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The gang drove a white van with obscured licence plates into the alley, cut away the door and drove it away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Some of the police who took part in the investigation had responded to the attack on the Bataclan on 13 November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Across Paris, 14 men are on trial, accused of taking part in a night of militant Islamist attacks on Paris that night, including at the Bataclan. The trial is due to end next week.<\/p>\n

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Seven French men and an Italian, aged 31 to 58, were given jail terms ranging from a few months to four years – although parts of the sentence will be served wearing electronic tags rather than in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A trio in their thirties admitted to the theft. A fourth man man, described as a 41-year-old millionaire lottery-winner with a passion for street art, was convicted of helping them conceal the door in the south of France. The court rejected allegations that Mehdi Meftah was the mastermind behind the theft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Another three men were found guilty of transporting the door and a 58-year-old hotel owner in Italy was given a six-month suspended sentence. The Banksy work was eventually moved from his hotel on the Adriatic coast to a farm 15km (nine miles) inland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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