Source: Sky News
Security & Justice
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Opinion
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Friday 22 December 2023 18:40:24
New Banksy Piece Removed Within Minutes Of Artist Confirming Authenticity
A new artwork by Banksy has been removed from a street in south London less than half an hour after it was confirmed to be genuine.
The elusive artist confirmed the work, a traffic stop sign featuring military drones, was his in a social media post shortly after midday on Friday.
Two men were seen taking down the sign at the intersection of Southampton Way and Commercial Way in Peckham at around 12.30pm.
A photographer captured images of the pair removing the artwork.
One could be seen standing on a Lime bike while using bolt cutters to free the sign.
They were then pictured running down the street with the sign in hand.
A man who witnessed the removal said he "watched in awe" as a man "bashed it with his hands".
The witness, who wanted to be referred to only as Alex, rode a Lime bike to the artwork, which was then used by another man to stand on as he removed the art.
The 26-year-old told the PA news agency: "I opened Instagram and I saw it was posted four minutes before and I was about to go on my lunch break. There were about two people there when I got there. We were all sort of admiring it and taking pictures.
"This guy comes up and grabs it, we watched in awe as he bashed it. He put the Lime bike under the sign, stood on the Lime bike and tried to hit the sign, he hit it with his hands and it wasn't going anywhere."
He added: "He fell off the Lime bike at one point. He disappeared and went away and about two minutes later he reappeared with bolt cutters and just sort of tried and tried and tried while everyone was watching.
"We said 'what are you doing?' but no one really knew what to do, we sort of just watched it happen. We were all a bit bemused; there was some honking of car horns.
"He ripped it off and ran across the road and ran away. He said nothing. He didn't seem to care that much about the art itself. There was someone else there but I don't know if they were together.
"I went there thinking that people want that, I wanted to see it before something happened to it. Before it was taken, someone else said 'shall we take it?'"