Sep 30, 2007

Underground ‘terrorists’ with a mission to save city’s neglected heritage

Mr Kunstmann belongs to les UX, a clandestine network that is on a mission to discover and exploit the city’s [Paris’s] neglected underworld. The urban explorers put on film shows in underground galleries, restore medieval crypts and break into monuments after dark to organise plays and readings. In the eyes of their supporters, they are the white knights of modern culture, renovating forgotten buildings and staging artistic events beyond the reach of a stifling civil service.

The authorities view them differently: as the dark side of the City of Light – irresponsible, paranoid subversives whose actions could serve as a model for terrorists.

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