MuDEC, tries to steal a Banksy work at the exhibition, replacing it with a fake: charged

Attempted theft at the Banksy exhibition underway at the Museum of Cultures (MuDEC) in Milan. On Saturday, December 22, at around 5:30 p.m., a 28-year-old, incensed young man in fact tried to smuggle an original Banksy print out of the MuDEC after replacing it with a reproduction: flagged down by security personnel at the Milanese institution, he was stopped on his way out by the Carabinieri, who charged him at large for attempted theft.

The work the man tried to steal is titled Walled Off Hotel Print Box Set, measures 25 by 25 centimeters, and is worth about 1,000 pounds. Now investigators are trying to figure out if this was the first time the young man performed such an act, or if we are dealing with a habitual forger.

Pictured: Banksy, Walled Off Hotel Print Box Set, detail (2017)

MuDEC, tries to steal a Banksy work at the exhibition, replacing it with a fake: charged

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