Eight men went on trial in Paris on Wednesday accused of stealing a Banksy artwork, painted on the door of the Bataclan concert venue to honour 90 people killed in 2015 attacks on the city.
The seven French defendants and one Italian are suspected of removing the metal door from the building before dawn in January 2019 and transporting it to Italy.
It was decorated in 2018 with the stencil of a mournful young woman by the anonymous British street artist, giving it an estimated value of up to one million euros.
A white van with concealed number plates was seen stopping on January 26 in 2019 in an alleyway running alongside the Bataclan in central Paris.
Many concert-goers fled via the same alley when the Bataclan became the focal point of France’s worst-ever attacks since World War II – in November 2015, when and ISIL (ISIS) armed group fighters killed 130 people at a string of sites across the capital.
Three of those on trial, in their 30s, confessed to the theft when they were arrested, though two said they were only carrying out the orders of a man who was not present when the door was removed, Mehdi Meftah.
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