“The sad young girl” had evaporated… Eight men were finally sentenced Thursday in Paris to sentences of up to two years in prison for having stolen or transported to Italy a Bataclan door decorated with a Banksy's work in tribute to the victims of the November 13 attacks.
"The sad girl", claimed by the street-artist with a mysterious identity, had been stencilled in June 2018 in the Saint-Pierre-Amelot passage, an alley by which many spectators had fled the attack which targeted the theater.
His disappearance had aroused "deep indignation", in the words of the Bataclan team.
The flight was completed in eight minutes on the night of January 25 to 26, 2019.
The investigations had made it possible to find the metal door in June 2020 on a farm in Italy, without the plexiglass pane which protected it.
This decision comes as the last defense arguments are taking place, a few kilometers away, at the trial of the deadly attacks of November 13, 2015, where the verdict is expected on June 29.
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