Italian police have found an artwork by Banksy that was stolen from outside the Bataclan theater in Paris last year
Two sources with the Carabinieri paramilitary police force of the central Italian region of Abruzzo told CNN on Wednesday that one of their units found the painting in the province of Teramo.
The sources were not authorized to speak on the record, and they declined to give more details of the investigation that led them to the discovery. The Italian prosecutor leading the investigation is expected to give details at a news conference Thursday, the sources said.
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