抗議する黒人女性像、奴隷商像跡に設置も翌日に撤去　英

【ブリストルＡＦＰ＝時事】英国南西部ブリストルで15日、人種差別に反対するデモ隊によって先月引き倒された奴隷貿易商人像の台座に、当時のデモに参加していた黒人女性の像が設置された。設置は市当局の許可なく行われたため、像は翌日に撤去された。（写真は英ブリストルで、奴隷貿易商人エドワード・コルストンの像があった台座に置かれた黒人女性ジェン・リードさんの像。英国人アーティストのマーク・クイン氏制作）
　この像は英国人アーティストのマーク・クイン氏が、「黒人の命は大切」運動参加者のジェン・リードさんをモデルに制作したもので、拳を突き上げるポーズをとり、「力の高まり」と名付けられた。
　台座に立っていた奴隷貿易商エドワード・コルストンの像は、米国で黒人のジョージ・フロイドさんが死亡した事件を受けて先月行われたデモで引き倒され、ブリストル湾に投げ込まれた。
　同市のマービン・リース市長は１５日、リードさんの像は市当局の許可を受けずに設置されたとした上で、「台座の将来と、台座に何を置くかはブリストル市民によって決められなければならない」と説明。市当局は翌１６日、像が同日午前に撤去され、現在は美術館で保管されていることを明らかにした。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/07/17-11:16）

A statue of an anti-racism protester in Britain which had replaced one of a slave trader was removed Thursday, local authorities said, in an ongoing battle over the symbolic empty plinth.
The authorities in the southwestern city of Bristol said they had taken down the sculpture -- entitled A Surge of Power showing Black Lives Matter demonstrator Jen Reid with her fist raised -- almost exactly 24 hours after it was placed on the plinth without permission.
This morning we removed the sculpture, Bristol city council said in a statement. It will be held at our museum for the artist to collect or donate to our collection.
The sculpture was secretly put in place on Wednesday, and was inspired by events in Bristol last month which saw anti-racism protesters remove the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and dump it in the local harbour.
Reid had attended the unveiling and said: I can't see it coming down in a hurry.
But local authority officials insisted it was for the whole city to decide what should replace the Colston statue, which had stood on the plinth since 1895.
The sculpture that has been installed today was the work and decision of a London-based artist, Bristol mayor Marvin Rees said on Wednesday.
It was not requested and permission was not given for it to be installed.
The future of the plinth and what is installed on it must be decided by the people of Bristol.
Protests in Bristol took place following the killing of African American George Floyd by police in the US state of Minnesota.
His death helped fuel global protests, including in the UK, where much of the focus of demonstrations has been on Britain's colonial past.
Colston was a 17th century slave trader and Conservative MP whose company forcibly moved large numbers of West Africans.
A native of Bristol, his name is commemorated in many landmarks across the city.
The impact of the march in Bristol has seen calls for other statues in the UK to be taken down, including that of colonialist Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University's Oriel College.
There have also been counter-demonstrations to protect some statues, including one of wartime leader Winston Churchill in London and the founder of the Scout movement, Robert Baden-Powell, in Poole on England's south coast.