Portugal's famed street artist, Bordalo II, has broken into a Lisbon venue where Pope Francis will celebrate a mass next week and rolled out a huge carpet of oversized banknotes to criticise how much the state has spent on the event.
to attend the World Youth Day global gathering of young Catholics, which is expected to bring together hundreds of thousands of pilgrims.
"At the time when many people are fighting to keep their homes, their work and their dignity, millions worth of public funds have been invested to sponsor the tour," the artist, whose real name is Artur Bordalo, wrote on Instagram.
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