What will happen to the comfort women statue in Berlin, Germany, with the ward ordering its relocation to private property and a Korean civic group insisting it be on public land?

The statue of a girl symbolizing the comfort women issue, which was installed by a Korean civic group in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany, expired on the 28th of last month. The district has decided to move the statue to private land.
However, the civic group that set up the facility, the Korea Council, rejected the proposal, insisting that it be set up on public land. The conflict continues, but the district authorities have said they will order the facility to be removed within four weeks.
The group is prepared to take legal action if it is ordered to remove the statue, so future developments will be watched closely. The statue was installed in September 2020.
There were already two statues in the country, but both were on private property, but the statue erected by the group was the first to be installed in a public location, which caused a stir.
Regarding this statue of a girl, which symbolizes the comfort women issue, the Korean civic group "Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery by the Japanese Army" (Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery by the Japanese Army) which supports former comfort women,
Since it was installed in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in December 2011, it has spread to countries around the world. However, in the 2015 Japan-Korea Agreement that confirmed the "final and irreversible resolution" of the comfort women issue,
The Japanese government has pledged to refrain from making any criticism or accusations in foreign countries, and as the installation of the statue symbolizing the comfort women issue in a third country is incompatible with this stance, the Japanese government has called for the early removal of the statues installed in each country.
Regarding the statue in Mitte, the Japanese government has been lobbying the German side to remove it, and in October 2020, the Mitte mayor issued an order to remove it.
The government argued that the statue was about sexual violence against women during wartime and was not specific to Japan. In the end, the mayor withdrew the order to remove the statue, and the ward extended the deadline for the statue's installation to September 28, 2022.
The statue was extended until 2022. Since then, it has been allowed to remain installed at the discretion of the ward without any legal basis. In April 2022, the then Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, held a summit meeting with Germany.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs also asked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for cooperation in removing the statue. It was extremely unusual for a prime minister to make such a request himself. However, Germany, a major European country, decided to allow the statue to remain in place.
The reason behind this is believed to be the Japanese government's sense of crisis that allowing the statue to be removed from the streets could lead to a false historical message taking root in the international community. However, the jurisdiction of the statue is in the Mitte district, and the German government has decided not to intervene.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz's reaction at the time was said to be weak, because there was little room for intervention. However, in May of this year, when the Berlin mayor met with then-Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, he said, "It is important to bring about change.
The Korea Council responded by saying that this was a move toward removal and that the government had "succumbed to pressure from the Japanese government."
While subsequent developments were attracting attention, in July the Mitte district announced that it would remove the statue after September 28, when the deadline for its installation expires.
The government announced its intention to ask the group to remove the statue. Korean media reported at the time that the statue was in danger of being removed. On the 24th of last month, the district council passed a motion to leave the statue in place by a majority vote.
The decision was adopted, but it was not legally binding, and the mayor followed his original policy and asked the group to vacate the public land. Prior to this, the mayor had held discussions with the group and proposed a compromise to move the facility to private land, but
The group rejected the proposal, insisting that the statue be installed on its current public land. The mayor of the ward issued a statement, emphasizing that "the only legal way to leave the statue permanently is to relocate it to private land."
The ward has ordered the statue to be removed within four weeks. The response of the group is attracting attention, but the city of Berlin, which is not directly related to the comfort women issue,
It is somewhat puzzling that the district of Mitte is caught between Japan and South Korea over the statue that symbolizes this issue. In fact, the mayor of Mitte said that he is under pressure from both sides.
They are complaining about their plight.