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Banksy is as mysterious as a shipwreck: no one knows exactly who or what is behind it. Now Banksy has reappeared, but in a very different way than usual. The artist donated a pink boat to the German maritime rescue service Sea-Watch. And not only that, it has been immortalized in it with graffiti: a little girl holding a heart-shaped lifeline.
“We are happy with the pink booster!” Writes the German rescue organization Sea-Watch on Twitter. You yourself are not the owner of the ship, but according to the “Guardian” the French customs authorities. The ship is called Louise Michel, it got its name from a French anarchist.
He doesn’t want to keep the money
But how did the donation come about? According to the British newspaper “Guardian”, Banksy had contacted the German captain of Sea-Watch, Pia Klemp. It is said that she wrote in an email that she made money working on the immigration crisis. “Of course I cannot keep the money. Could you use it to buy a new boat or something? Please let me know. Well done. Banksy “.
At first, Pia Klemp thought of a joke. But it was not like that. According to Sea-Watch, the ship is currently in the Mediterranean and had already saved 89 people on Thursday. Now maritime rescuers are looking for a port to get people ashore.
The artist himself does not participate in rescue operations. “Banksy will not pretend that he knows better than we do how to operate a ship,” says Captain Pia Klemp.
His identity remains unknown
The motor yacht is 31 meters long and therefore smaller than the other ships in the Sea-Watch fleet, but much faster than other rescue boats. The Louise Michel could “hopefully catch up with the so-called Libyan coast guard” before they pick up the refugees and take them to the internment camps in Libya, according to Klemp.
Banksy is famous for socially critical motives that pop up somewhere. Her identity is a mystery. It is known that he came from Bristol, in the south west of England, and arrived in London in the late 1990s.
It is not the first time that Banksy has campaigned for refugees: just a month ago they auctioned an artwork about the refugee crisis and won more than 2.2 million pounds (almost 2.5 million euros). The money will go to a clinic in the West Bank to build an acute stroke center there. (SDA / hac)
