The story behind the astonishing tribute to Maradon …

In January this year, President Bashar al-Ásad’s airstrikes killed at least seven people and injured 37 others in the Syrian city of Binnish. In February, another bombardment killed six people, including four teachers and students. The, Immersed in the ruins of the Syrian war, an artistic tribute to Diego Maradona has traveled the world.

The painter Aziz Al-Asmar it represented the number ten on the wall of a destroyed house in northwestern Syria. His image circulated by all means a single day after the death of the “golden kid” of Villa Fiorito.

Al-Asmar is known as Syrian graffiti artist who embellishes the remains of the bombing and destruction who leaves the war in his country. In recent years, he has paid tribute to social references. In June of this year, he painted a mural with the image of George floyd, the black man killed by the police in Minneapolis, United States, in a crime that marked the start of many protests around the world under the slogan “Black lives matter“.

Syria has been going through war since 2011. The register counts 380,000 dead and millions displaced. This year, the Syrian president stepped up the offensive to the northwest and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights denounced the deaths of civilians in Idlib province. In this context, Al-Asmar found a space to make another postcard of the Argentine idol.