The artist Banksy He described on Instagram on Wednesday “exaggerated” the British Home Secretary’s criticism of one of his works at the London Film Festival Glastonburydedicated to the immigrants who cross the seas aboard small boats.
On Friday night, during the concert of Idles groupa inflatable boat in which there were dolls with life jacketswas carried into the air by the crowd. Banksy later confirmed that he was behind this performance, publishing a video of the scene.
On the social network X, the conservative home secretary, James Cleverlyattacked the work, calling it “awful” “Festival attendees playing immigrants will have fun,” the politician said. without knowing that they were dolls.
“People are dying in the Mediterranean, they are dying in the English Channel. It’s not funny, it’s despicable.”the minister also lashed out on Sky News, in the midst of an election campaign in which immigration is an important issue.
“The Home Secretary called my boat at Glastonbury ‘ignoble and unacceptable’, which I find exaggerated“, responded the artist, who rarely writes on his Instagram account. “The real ship I finance, the MV Louise Michel, saved 17 unaccompanied minors” in the Mediterranean on Monday afternoonwrote Banksy.
“To punish him, the Italian authorities immobilized him, which I find despicable and unacceptable.”the artist added. According to the German humanitarian ship’s social media account X, it picked up a total of 1,000 people on Monday. 36 people, Among them 17 minorsbefore being able to disembark on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Source: Ambito
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