Art restitution

Banksy’s stolen Bataclan mural recovered and returned to France

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Banksy’s Bataclan mural of a mourning figure on a door, displayed for visitors.
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Reuters reported that Italy returned Banksy’s Bataclan fire-exit-door mural to France on 14 July 2020. Stolen in January 2019, the door had been found in an Italian farmhouse in June 2020.

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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