Banksy mural disappears – Digital Lopez Doriga

Once again, but in this case a piece especially famous, disappeared or was destroyed a street mural from acclaimed modern artist. Banksy

This is a work in which satirized monitoring the citizenship by the government, as portrayed three spies who monitored a call outside a phone booth, the latter is real.

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the mural, he was in Cheltenham, an English southwest town 175 kilometers from London, and since last year, the painting had the status of protected work since It passed by municipal decision, but even so, the work of Bansy has been destroyed or torn off the building for profit. The authorities are investigating.

The work had the name ‘Spy Booth’ (The Spy cabin), was controversial dede appeared one morning in April 2014, immediately citizens undertook a campaign to get official protection paint spray executed coup, which attracted many tourists and curious, being one of the most photographed buildings in the country.

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Before the mural was the victim of repeated acts of vandalism in which they tried to cover spies drawn from the films of the 50s, wearing glasses sun, raincoats and equipped with devices to intercept phone calls.

the mural was made by Bansy, shortly after learning of the revelations in espionage people and painted five kilometers from the headquarters of one of the three intelligence services UK, GCHQ.

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in the place where the mural was, appeared a mountain of rubble which makes believe that the mural was destroyed, however, the shortage remains with traces of paint suggest a second hypothesis which states that the urban work may have been stolen.

Alex Chalk, local MP, has called for an investigation to solve the mystery. “We had already talked to the owner,” said Mark Nelson, a member of the municipal council of Cheltenham. “Protecting the work of Banksy had always been one of our priorities, and the owner knew it was an obligation to protect it while they carry out the works,” he said.

Meanwhile, the owner the building shown inaccessible to speak to the media.

with information from El País