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They completely covered it in plastic foil, put barricades in front of it and two guards to prevent anyone seeing it. It did definitely not get washed away by the rain. It existed for 3 days and was covered for most of that time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/arts/design/banksy-destroyed.html
Here is a pic of the removal process this morning:
lol now I’m hoping another mural shows up with this on the other side
Yeeah. A painting of those guards standing infront of a pile of food and infront of the guards a group of starving kids. Thats the kind of grin im seeing here. "Aww you wanna live? You wanna not get genocided? Well guess what, we dont give a fuck!"
Thanks for the info. I thought I was probably wrong, but banksy has done some crazy stuff in the past so I was hopeful.