Second ‘Banksy bandit’ suspect ARRESTED by Met police
A second man has been arrested on suspicion of theft and prison injury after Banksy‘s £250,000 ‘drone cease’ signal artwork set up was stolen in broad daylight.
The piece of avenue artwork – a visitors cease signal coated with three plane resembling navy drones – was revealed in Peckham, southeast London, at noon on Friday.
But lower than an hour after Banksy confirmed it was real by posting a photograph on social media, witnesses noticed the art work being eliminated by a person with bolt cutters.
A person in his 40s was arrested immediately in reference to the elimination of the artwork set up, the Met Police has mentioned. He stays in police custody.
A 23-year-old man was arrested in reference to the incident yesterday. He has been bailed pending additional inquiries till a date in mid-March.
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A person was seen taking down the signal on Friday utilizing a pair of bolt cutters – balancing on an e-bike to permit him to succeed in. The rider of the e-bike was an onlooker and did not perform the theft
The extraordinary scenes unfolded on the intersection of Southampton Way and Commercial Way in Peckham at about 12.30pm on Friday
The man, wearing a purple jacket on Friday and apparently carrying work gear, pulled the signal down earlier than making off with it
Video confirmed a person with bolt cutters climbing up on a bicycle to take away the work from an indication put up on the intersection of Southampton Way and Commercial Way whereas one other man steadied the bike. The man who minimize the signal free then ran off with it in his hand.
A voice on a video of the incident might be heard saying, ‘it makes me so aggravated,’ as the person ran away.
A witness mentioned that the small crowd of those that had proven as much as view the work stood round watching in awe because the scene unfolded.
‘We mentioned, “What are you doing?” But nobody actually knew what to do, we kind of simply watched it occur,’ the witness, who wished solely to be recognized as Alex, mentioned on Friday. ‘We had been all a bit bemused; there was some honking of automobile horns.’
Jasmine Ali, deputy chief of the native borough council, referred to as for the piece to be returned.
‘It mustn’t have been eliminated and we might prefer it again so everybody locally can take pleasure in Banksy’s sensible work,’ Ali mentioned.
The cease signal has since been changed.
Pieces by the rogue artist have been bought for thousands and thousands of kilos – and specialists are already speculating that it might make a whole lot of hundreds amid hypothesis that it might have been taken for a fast revenue.
Banksy’s thought-provoking and satirical artwork typically takes goal at warfare. Many of his followers on Instagram interpreted his newest work as calling for a cease-fire within the Gaza Strip.
