Germany "Insult Jews" appeal to remove sculpture February 6 4:14
The court ruled that the Jewish man should be removed from the church in eastern Germany over a 700-year-old sculpture in an attempt to remove the Jews as expressing insult. In Germany, crime related to anti-Semitism has increased in recent years, and media has been divided over judgments.
On the outer wall of a church in Wittenberg, eastern Germany, a 700-year-old sculpture expressing the appearance of Jews drinking milk from pigs regarded as unclean animals is left, and a Jewish man wrote `` slandering against Jews "The insult has been harmful to this day."
A court in Eastern Naumburg rejected the man's complaint on the 4th, stating, "Today, sculptures have no insulting nature."
The court has taken into account that sculptures are now being set up near the sculpture, with memorials to memorialize the Jews who were victims of the Nazi Germany's genocide-Holocaust, as well as information boards that convey the historical context of the sculpture. You say you did.
The church was known for preaching by Martin Luther, a theologian who began the Reformation in the 16th century, and Luther himself was said to have given discriminatory remarks to Jews.
In recent years, crime related to anti-Semitism has increased in Germany, and while local courts have said that court decisions should not hide history, It will send a signal. "