Banksy’s alternative theme park is to be dismantled and sent to Calais as a shelter for migrants.
Work to take down Dismaland starts today and the elusive street artist said that all the timber and fixtures from his so-called bemusement park would be sent to “The Jungle” camp.
An estimated 5,000 migrants displaced from countries including Syria, Libya and Eritrea are believed to be camped in and around the French port.
On the Dismaland website, Banksy had posted a picture of the migrant camp in Calais and had superimposed on to it his fire-ravaged Cinderella fairytale castle.
“Coming soon . . . Dismaland Calais,” he wrote. “All the timber and fixtures from Dismaland are being sent to the ‘jungle’ refugee camp near Calais to build