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Agence France-Presse

A painting in homage to terror victims by famous street artist Banksy has been stolen from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, where 90 people were killed in 2015 in a jihadist attack.
The white stencilled oeuvre showing a sad-faced girl on one of the emergency doors of the famed Parisian venue was cut out and taken away.

“Banksy’s work, a symbol of recollection and belonging to all: locals, Parisians, citizens of the world has been taken from us,” the establishment said, stressing the staff’s “deep indignation”.
A source close to the investigation told LCI television that “a group of hooded individuals armed with angle grinders cut the painting and took it away in a truck” on the night of Friday to Saturday.
This work along with other similarly-themed paintings popped up in Paris last June and has been attributed to the reclusive British street artist.
Banksy, whose identity is known to only a handful of friends, caused a sensation in October when one of his paintings began shredding itself, just after selling for US$1.4 million.


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Banksy work stolen from Paris terror attack venue

In this file photo taken on June 25, 2018, a man takes a photograph of an artwork by street artist Banksy in Paris on a side street to the Bataclan concert hall where a terrorist attack killed 90 people on November 13, 2015. Photo: AFP

(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 25, 2018 A man walks past an artwork by street artist Banksy in Paris on a side street to the Bataclan concert hall where a terrorist attack killed 90 people on Novembre 13, 2015. - The artwork by street artist Banksy on a side street to the Bataclan concert hall was stolen in Paris on January 26, 2019. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION

French police identify third Bataclan bomber through text message to his mother

A picture posted in 2014 on the Facebook page of Foued Mohamed Aggad, who has been identified as the third bomber in the attacks at Paris's Bataclan music hall, according to police sources in France. Photo: AFP

Victims walk away outside the Bataclan theater in Paris, Friday Nov. 13, 2015. Well over 100 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions explosions. French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced that he was closing the country's borders. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

‘Never forget’: Sting reopens Paris Bataclan one year after music hall massacre

British musician Sting performs on stage at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris one year after suicidal jihadis turned it into a bloodbath and killed 90 revellers. Photo: AP

American rock group Eagles of Death Metal perform on stage on November 13, 2015 at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, few moments before four men armed with assault rifles and shouting "Allahu akbar" ("God is great!") stormed into the venue. Islamic State jihadists on November 14, 2015 claimed a series of coordinated attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris that killed at least 128 people in scenes of carnage at the Bataclan, restaurants and the national stadium. AFP PHOTO / ROCK&FOLK / MARION RUSZNIEWSKI

British musician Sting performs on stage at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016. A concert by British pop legend Sting is marking the reopening of the Paris' Bataclan concert hall one year after suicidal jihadis turned it into a bloodbath and killed 90 revelers. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

People leave the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on November 12, 2016, after the reopening concert by British musician Sting to mark the first anniversary of the November 13 Paris attacks. Rock star Sting reopens the Bataclan on November 12, the revered Paris concert hall where jihadists massacred 90 people, with a hugely symbolic show to mark the first anniversary of France's bloodiest terror attacks. Scores of survivors of the Bataclan assault -- the worst of the gun and suicide attacks across the city that night which left 130 dead -- will attend the concert, the dominant event in a weekend of otherwise low-key commemorations. / AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZ

A placard reading " Bataclan. An affectionate thought for you my son, your father who loves you" is hung around a tree near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on November 12, 2016, prior to the reopening concert by British musician Sting to mark the first anniversary of the November 13 Paris attacks. Rock star Sting reopens the Bataclan on November 12, the revered Paris concert hall where jihadists massacred 90 people, with a hugely symbolic show to mark the first anniversary of France's bloodiest terror attacks. Scores of survivors of the Bataclan assault -- the worst of the gun and suicide attacks across the city that night which left 130 dead -- will attend the concert, the dominant event in a weekend of otherwise low-key commemorations. / AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZ

Bataclan bars Eagles of Death Metal from reopening show over ‘conspiracy theories’

Jesse Hughes, the singer of US rock group Eagles of Death Metal, holds a tee-shirt prior to the start of the concert at the Olympia concert hall in Paris in February. Members of the group were turned away from the reopening concert. File photo: AFP

(FILES) - A file picture taken on October 19, 2015, Musicians Jesse Hughes (L) and Josh Homme of Eagles of Death Metal perform at the Teragram Ballroom on in Los Angeles, California. At least 18 people were killed in a series of gun attacks across Paris on November 12, 2015, as well as explosions outside the national stadium where France was hosting Germany. Police said at least 15 people had been killed at the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris. The scheduled headliner on November 12, 2015, at the Bataclan concert hall was Eagles of Death Metal, a California band that was on a tour of Europe after releasing last month its first album in seven years. Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

(FILES) A picture taken on November 13, 2015 shows American rock group Eagles of Death Metal performing on stage at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, a few moments before men armed with assault rifles and shouting "Allahu akbar" ("God is great!") stormed into the venue. Eagles of Death Metal, the US band whose audience was massacred in the Paris attacks, on November 18, 2015 called for "love and compassion" and put its shows on hold. The California rock band, in its first full statement since Friday's bloodbath, said it was "horrified" and "still trying to come to terms with what happened." AFP PHOTO / ROCK&FOLK / MARION RUSZNIEWSKI

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Image of sad-faced girl on Bataclan emergency door was cut out and taken away
Artwork was a tribute to the 90 people killed in the 2015 terror attack


Image of sad-faced girl on Bataclan emergency door was cut out and taken away.


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Banksy work stolen from Paris terror attack venue

Image of sad-faced girl on Bataclan emergency door was cut out and taken away Artwork was a tribute to the 90 people killed in the 2015 terror attack

Image of sad-faced girl on Bataclan emergency door was cut out and taken away

Artwork was a tribute to the 90 people killed in the 2015 terror attack