Two people were indicted and écrouées of the chief of robbery, organized, and four others for possession of stolen goods theft organised.
A grinding fly in Isère, video surveillance, wiretapping, suspects talkative… Here’s how The young sad girl of the street artist Banksy, painted on a door at the Bataclan in Paris in tribute to the victims of the attacks of 2015, has been found in Italy a year and a half after its volume In the night from 25 to 26 January, 2019 at 4 o’clock in the morning, three men, hood on the head and mask on the face, cut it to the grinder a door at the Bataclan. This is not just any door.
This is the back door of the salle de spectacle paris on which the street artist Banksy has painted The sad young girl (the girl is sad), in homage to the 90 people killed on the 13th November 2015 at a concert in this place, in the course of a series of jihadist attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, which were 130 deaths in total that night.
The operation lasted only a few minutes. The three thieves boarded door in a van Citroën whose license plate was concealed, according to the pictures of video surveillance collected by police officers from the second district judicial police (2nd DPJ) in charge of the investigations.
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“It was an important inquiry for them”, notes a source close to the investigation tells the place of the research, “some of them had made the findings at the Bataclan in attacks”. A work on the phone is “merely” phones at the Bataclan and then on the ride to the van followed by the video surveillance. The numbers are bugged.
A year later the police challenge three men suspected of burglary in a diy shop in grenoble-Isère. Events that transpired a few days before the flight, at the Bataclan. A grinder is one of the objects stolen. One of the suspects boasted of having participated in a flight to Paris.
The link is then made between these suspects and the theft of “the girl sad.” A bugging and surveillance can identify three concealers. The investigators learn that the work of Banksy has traveled in Isère, then in the south of France, then in Italy.
“Hardly resalable”
In Italy, it is first stored in a hotel of Tortoreto, in Abruzzo region (center), and the establishment performing work, it is transferred in a farm in Sant Omero, a dozen of km. The owner of the hotel, knowledge of one of the fences, suspected Mehdi Meftah, said that he did not know what contained in the package bulky.
The investigators then decided to arrest the entire band. The operation is unfortunately stalled because of confinement, ” says the source close to the investigation.
On 10 June, the work is entered in the Abruzzo region during a joint operation with the Italian police. The publicity surrounding the seizure obliges us to speed up arrests. In the days that followed, nine people are arrested in the department of Isère, Haute-Savoie, Var, Rhône, Puy-de-Dome. One of the robbers is still at large.
Two people were indicted and écrouées of the chief of robbery, organized, and four others for possession of stolen goods theft organised, whose Mehdi Meftah. This man, 39-year-old, the physics of a boxer with the tattooed arms, has grown up in a city of Lyon. He is the creator of a brand of luxury T-shirt called “BL1.D” whose particularity is to sew a veritable ingot of 18 carat gold on the neckline. It is suspected to be the sponsor of the volume
“His associates say that he wanted to keep the door to one of his houses that he designs,” according to the source close to the investigation who agrees that this type of work “is hardly resalable”. “As much resell the mona lisa”, according to his lawyer, Maître Yves Sauvayre, quoted by the Sunday Newspaper, and which belies the role of sponsor of his client. “It was put before the accomplished fact. He accepted this door to help of ancient knowledge of the time of the lean cows. It has not paid a penny”, he assured the JDD.
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at the present time, the door to the “girl sad”, which was delivered to France by the Italian authorities, has been placed under seal and under high surveillance in the premises of the judicial police in paris.
