In Pictures | Street artist Banksy paints Paris with works on migrants, here’s the story behind them

Street Artist Banksy has confirmed that he painted Paris with up to a dozen murals as a tribute to May 1968 uprising, vember 2015 terrorist attack and even French government’s hard line on migrants.

Stenciled ims in usual style of provocative British graffiti artist, began appearing on walls across French capital last week.

All works were and remain unsigned, which spre curiosity among people. But Bristol-based artist finally took to Instagram to share his artworks across Paris. posts gared more than half a million likes within few hours.

“Fifty years since uprising in Paris 1968. birthplace of modern stencil art,” he wrote with a post showing a masked rat carrying a utility knife that is used to cut out stencils.

mural with a horse is a take on famous painting of Napoleon as he crosses Alps to inve Italy in 1800. Except what’s different, in Banksy's version is that figure on horse is wearing a full red hescarf.

Banksy posted a photo of this im on Instagram with a caption that res, "LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, CABLE TV," (Liberty, Equality, Cable TV)

mural which sits on a side street near Bataclan concert hall -- site of a vember 2015 terrorist attack that left 90 de -- is painted in black and white and shows a s-looking figure, gazing downward.

In ar mural, a rat couple painted near corner of a building stare longingly at Eiffel Tower.

or mural believed to be a take on capitalism, shows a businessman or a politician in a suit offering a dog a bone having first sawn animal’s leg off. 

mural near a former center for migrants, depicts a young child of colour, spray-painting wallpaper over a swastika. Near her is a teddy-bear and torn mattresses. artwork has since been vandalized with bright blue paint.

This is t first time Banksy has used art to make a statement on migration. He highlighted Syrian refugee crisis previously in 2015 with a portrait of Steve Jobs in a migrant camp in Calais, France. caption for mural, written online was " son of a migrant from Syria."