PARIS — An image of a woman veiled in mourning appeared next to the Bataclan concert hall in Paris Monday, the latest attributed to the mysterious British street artist Banksy. The stencilled mural next to the emergency exit from which hundreds fled the massacre by jihadist gunman in 2015, is the eighth apparently created by the artist in the French capital in recent days. Ninety people died inside the venue in the attack claimed the Islamic State group during a concert by the US group Eagles of Death Metal. Some saw the piece as a poignant farewell to the city by the world’s most famous graffiti artist, who earlier took aim at the French government’s crackdown on migrants in another more elaborate work close to a former refugee reception center. It shows a young black girl spraying a pink wallpaper pattern over a swastika on a wall next to her sleeping bag and teddy bear in an attempt to make her patch of pavement more cosy. Banksy, a long-time supporter of the refugee cause, has yet to confirm the works are his. — AFP
