> October 16, 2017. - France, Paris. - Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky has been detained in Paris after setting fire to the Banque de France and being photographed in front of the blaze.
> Pyotr Pavlensky, an artist from St. Petersburg who gained worldwide notoriety after nailing his scrotum to the cobblestones of Moscow’s Red Square, has set the entrance to the Bank of France in Paris on fire.
> Pictures showing Pavlensky in front of the Bank of France door in the Place de la Bastille with flames raging in the barred windows appeared on social media on Monday.
> It is not clear what Pavlensky’s message was, but a Femen activist apparently quoted the artist as saying that “the revival of revolutionary France will trigger the global fire of revolutions.” “The bankers have taken the place of the monarchs,” another quote reads.
> Pavlensky received political asylum in France earlier this year after he fled Russia with his partner and their children following sexual assault allegations. In an interview with Russian TV channel Rain, Pavlensky said that his family lives “like true French: we do not work and we do not pay.” He said that he “seized” the house in Paris he lives in and resorts to “taking food” from the shops. “The security here is not very attentive,” the artist said.
> Setting things on fire is not something new for Pyotr Pavlensky, who set fire to the doors of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters in Moscow. The protest-performance cost the man seven months in jail and a fine of $7,800.
https://www.rt.com/news/406833-pavlensky-fire-bank-france/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/17/radical-protest-artist-pyotr-pavlensky-flees-from-russia-to-france
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