A statue of a mouse in the German city of Cologne was removed earlier this week by activists protesting against potential cuts to public broadcasting programming. The 70-kilogramme statue of the mouse character from the beloved long-running German children’s programme “Sendung mit der Maus” (“Show with the Mouse”) was noticed missing on Tuesday. The fate of the mouse statue remained a mystery for the first day, before an advocacy group named Campact revealed that it was in possession of the mouse and began releasing photos of it in sites across Germany. In the central German state of Thuringia…