British graff artist Banksy painted another political masterpiece, this time highlighting the use of tear gas on migrants in the camp known simply as “The Jungle”, has appeared in a walkway near the French Embasy in London.
The anonymous artist stenciled an image that plays of of the Broadway play, Les Miserables, which is where the name of the piece, Les Mis, derived. Banksy’s depiction shows the character Cosette engulfed by clouds of gas with bar code links to YouTube footage that claims to show police raids on the camp earlier in January.
Banksy also painted a prtrait of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs in the Calais, France migrant camp referencing Jobs’ heritage as the son of a migrant from Syria to the United States.
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