26-01-2016 15:33 via theartnewspaper.com

Banksy's teargas mural boarded up

Less than 48 hours after it was painted on the side of the French embassy in London, a mural by Banksy criticising the use of teargas in the Calais refugee camp known as the “Jungle” has been boarded up. The work depicts a girl fr om the musical Les Misérables with streaming eyes from the cloud of CS gas engulfing her. French police have denied using tear gas wh ere families live in the Jungle, but a QR code on Banksy’s mural links to a YouTube video of overnight police
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