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A German man who has fought in court for years to have a 13th century anti-Semitic sculpture removed from the wall of a church plans to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after several defeats in German courts. Recently, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court rejected a request to consider the matter from Michael Düllmann, who converted to Judaism in 1978 and has been seeking to get rid of the anti-Jewish depiction. The sandstone relief in the wall of an historically important church in the eastern city of Wittenberg is known as the Judensau (“Jewish Pig”) and shows two people…

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