Banksy claims new mural in London

Two people, presumably children, lying down and looking at the sky: the British artist Banksy on Monday claimed responsibility for a new stencil that appeared in the streets of London, without saying anything about identical graffiti detected in another district of the capital.

His new work was created on the side wall of an old building in the Bayswater area in the center of the British capital. It depicts two people, resembling children, lying on their backs and warmly dressed in coats, hats and boots. Both look towards the sky and one of them raises her arm to point at something.

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The artist, whose identity is still mysterious, claimed authorship in the middle of the afternoon by posting a photo on his Instagram account. However, he did not post a photo of an identical stencil that appeared a few kilometers further on at Tottenham Court Road, in the very center of the capital. Originally from Bristol, Banksy is one of the most famous living artists in the world, particularly for his stencils with political and provocative messages that he spreads to the four corners of the planet.

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In September, he drew on one of the exterior facades of the Royal Courts of Justice in London a judge brandishing a gavel at a demonstrator lying on the ground with a blood-stained sign. Two days earlier, nearly 900 people were arrested in the capital during a rally in support of the banned Palestine Action organization, punctuated by tensions between police and demonstrators. This organization has been classified “terrorist” by the government after damage committed on an air force base. The work was quickly hidden behind a plastic sheet and then erased.