Banksy is Back and Taking on Paris With Sharp Political Criticism

Banksy is back and in France, taking aim at the French government’s crackdown on migrants in a series of new murals in Paris. 

The world’s best known street artist has “blitzed” the French capital over the last few days, leaving as many as six works on walls across the city.

The first work takes issue with France’s tough anti-migrant policy, with nearly 40 makeshift camps razed in Paris in the last three years and President Emmanuel Macron determined that the city does not become a magnet for refugees.

In the mural a young black girl sprays 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.

The image is on a wall in northern Paris next to an official refugee shelter which was controversially closed in March despite protests from the city’s Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo.

Since then around 2,000 migrants, including children and teenagers, have been sleeping rough along canals and under motorway bridges.

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