Paris (AFP)
Six people, suspected of having stolen in 2019 from the Bataclan in Paris a work attributed to Banksy and recently found in Italy, were charged Friday and placed in pre-trial detention, we learned on Saturday from judicial and police sources.
These six people were arrested Tuesday in several departments of southern, central and eastern France, said a police source.
Two of them were charged with theft in an organized gang and the other four for concealment of theft in an organized gang, the same police and judicial sources added. All six were placed in pre-trial detention.
The criminals seized it by cutting the door with a grinder on the night of January 25 to 26, 2019.
Italian police announced on June 10 that they had found the door, depicting a sad-looking female figure, on a farm in the Abruzzo countryside during a joint operation by French police and Italian riflemen.
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