独少女像、当面撤去されず　設置団体が差し止め申請

　【ベルリン時事】在ドイツの韓国系市民団体「韓国協会」がベルリン市ミッテ区に設置した従軍慰安婦を象徴する少女像について、撤去を指示した区当局は１３日、協会が行政裁判所に暫定的な撤去差し止めを申請したため像は当面維持されると発表した。区は１４日までの撤去を指示していた。
　フォンダッセル区長は声明で、裁判所の決定を待つとした上で、「韓国協会と日本側双方の利益になる妥協案を望む」と強調。「時代や地域、行為者に関係なく、あらゆる女性への性的暴力、特に戦時中のものに強く反対する」と表明した。（2020/10/14-06:29）

The central Berlin district of Mitte said Tuesday a statue symbolizing so-called wartime comfort women built there recently will not be removed for the time being.
   The announcement came after a pro-South Korea civic group in Germany which erected the statue requested a local administrative court to issue a temporary injunction against an order by the district to remove the monument.
   The Mitte government had ordered the statue be removed by Wednesday.
   Comfort women, mostly Koreans, were forced into prostitution for Japanese troops before and during World War II.
   In a statement, Stephan von Dassel, head of the district, said that the district will wait for the court's ruling and that he hopes the civic group and the Japanese government will reach a compromise deal beneficial to both sides.