Banksys provocative new mural outside the iconic London court causes rapid repression

London (AP) – A new mural of the elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge who hits a disarmed protester with a deck will be eliminated from a wall outside one of the most emblematic courts in London, the authorities said on Monday.

The mural appeared on Monday and represents a protester who lay on the ground holding a shedding poster, while a judge with a traditional wig and a black dress hits him with a deck.

Banksy published a photo of the work on Instagram, his usual method to claim a job as authentic. He was subtitled “Royal Courts of Justice. London.”

Security officials outside the court covered the work of art on Monday with black plastic leaves and two metal barriers, and was being protected by two officers and a security chamber.

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Because the Victorian Gothic Renaissance style building is 143 years old, the mural will be eliminated with consideration for its historical importance, according to the courts and courts of HM.

“The royal courts of justice are a listed building and the HMCTs are obliged to maintain their original character,” he said in a statement. The listed buildings are considered the most important historical buildings and sites in the country and are protected by law.

Although the work of art does not refer to a particular cause or incident, activists saw it as a reference to the prohibition of the United Kingdom government on the group action of Palestine.

On Saturday, almost 900 people were arrested in a London protest challenging the ban. Defending our jurors, the group that organized the protest, said in a statement that the mural “powerfully represents the brutality unleashed” by the prohibition of the government. “When the law is used as a tool to crush civil freedoms, it does not extinguish dissent, it strengthens it,” said the statement.

The courts have intervened in the case of action of Palestine, and the judges initially rejected the organization’s request to appeal their prohibition. A judge of the Court of the Superior Court then allowed the appeal to continue, although the government is now challenging that decision.

Banksy began his career in Aerosol painting buildings in Bristol, England, and has become one of the world’s best -known artists. Its paintings and facilities are sold for millions of dollars in an auction and have drawn thieves and vandals.

Banksy’s work often comments on political issues, with many of his pieces criticizing government policy on migration and war.

At the Glastonbury Festival last year, an inflatable raft containing migrant dolls in the life of the vests during the set of the band was announced. Banksy seemed to claim the trick, which was thought to symbolize small migrant boats crosses on the La Mancha Canal, in an Instagram post.

The artist has also received his message about migration to Europe.

In 2019, “The Migrant Child”, which represents a shipwrecked child who holds a pink smoke pump and with a life vest, was presented in Venice, Italy. In 2018, a series of works were discovered, including a fence of a former migrant center that represented a painting wallpaper in children’s spray on a swastika.

Banksy has also created numerous works of art in the West Bank and Strip in Gaza over the years, including one that represents a girl who performs a body search in an Israeli soldier, another that shows a dove with a simulation jacket and a masked manifestant who throws a bouquet of flowers. He designed the guest house “Walled Off Hotel” in Bethlehem, which closed in October 2023.

Last summer, Banksy captured London’s attention with a thematic collection of animals, which concluded with a mural of a gorilla that appeared to hold the entrance door to the London Zoo.

For nine consecutive days, creatures created by Banksy, from an perched mountain goat in a building buttress to Piranhas surrounding a police guard post to a rhino that mounted a car, appeared in unlikely places around the city.