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Artwork by anonymous artist Banksy found in Italy is displayed to journalists by Italian police and prosecutors ahead of a press conference. Italian police retrieved the piece of art by the famed street artist, which is an image of a girl in mourning painted on one of the emergency doors of the Parisian venue 'Le Bataclan', where Islamic State gunmen massacred 90 people. IMAGES
After 7 months without holding a concert, the iconic venue Olympia reopens in Paris with a festival featuring French bands La Femme and Yelle, as well as Canadian musician Chilly Gonzales. IMAGES
An artwork by street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the 2015 Paris attacks that was stolen from the Bataclan concert hall is set to be returned to France from Italy, where it was recovered by police abandoned farmhouse in Italy's central east Abruzzo region. IMAGES of the artwork before it is returned
Rome (Italy), Jul 14 (EFE) .- Italy sent back to France a stolen piece from the street artist Banksy, painted on a door in the Parisian Bataclan hall as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 attack, and which was discovered in an Italian farm.FOOTAGE COURTESY OF THE ANSA AGENCY
Banksy's "rat" stencil, stolen from near the Centre Pompidou in September, is back on display in Paris - albeit in a reproduced form. "In street art, there are only reproductions because often the originals are made at night, vandalized the next day or ripped off," explains Hazis Vardar, manager of a street art exhibition at the Espace Lafayette-Drouot. IMAGES
Attacks on five locations in Paris claimed the lives of at least 120 people, and eight attackers on Friday night, BBC reported.