Residents of free-town Christiania have had enough of crime after this week's shooting drama. A resident of free-town Christiania is tired of organized crime in connection with the purchase and sale of marijuana in the area.
A resident of free-town Christiania is tired of organized crime in connection with the purchase and sale of marijuana in the area.
The cup is full of citizens in free-town Christiania in Copenhagen. It reports Extra magazine. Yesterday saw a big police hunt in the area, after three people were shot. Police arrested later the suspect man in a dramatic action, where the suspected perpetrator was shot. He later died.
Extra magazine reporter says that the action is a signal to politicians that marijuana sales in the area are no longer welcome.
Residents will tear the place itself
Newspaper reports clock 10:47 that the so-called "pusher street 'now almost been cleared.
The newspaper Politiken reports that the demolition happens after a rush meeting where Chritianitts discussed what to do with organized crime.
We have asked the police to stay away. We will do this yourself. It is our honor in question. There has been something that is unacceptable, therefore we must clean up, explaining Hulda Mader spokesman for free-town, to politics.
Mader encourage hashish customers to go elsewhere to buy drugs.It is important to say that we can make an effort. But we can not guarantee that the stalls will not be set up again. For such is unfortunately the reality, says Risenga Manghezi, spokesman for those who live in Christiania.
A large number of Christiania was involved in the demolition, and after a few hours was about all the stalls away, according to NTB citing Danish TV2.
We do not think necessarily that it will be different when it is we who are doing it. But we will have to take one thing at a time, he says.
Sellers were masked
Since the late 1990s, the armed police carried out several actions against Christiania due openly hashish sales.
Police tried to stop the purchase and sale of hashish and marijuana in Christiania is disputed in the Danish capital. Several politicians believe that actions helping to spread drug sales across the city so that it becomes more difficult to control.
This has got to go all, way too far, said police director Thorkild bailiff about the organized hashish trade in Pusher Street, to Politiken. He says gun drama Wednesday night is a wake up call.
There were too many stalls and too many sellers outside that we did not know. They were masked, said Hulda Mader according Extra magazine.
Before, people sat in their stalls without camouflage and masks. We would like to have it more openly, so we could keep an eye on what was happening, says Mader.
Citizens have also painted over the sign marking the photo ban in the area. The remains of the stalls are collected in one pile, and according to the newspaper, it is proposed that the old hash stalls must be burned.
Facts about Christiania in Copenhagen
- Christiania was founded in 1971. The area would be "a self-governing society where every individual can freely unfold under liability to the community."
- In 1972, the first agreement between the Danish government and Christiania signed. The use of the area was accepted as a temporary "social experiment". From 1989 to 2013 was the use of the area governed by special legislation.
- In 2011, thanks residents accepted an offer from the state to buy the site for 76.2 million Danish kroner. The acquisition is financed by the sale of "people's shares" of the Fund Freetown Christiania.
- Christiania measures 32 hectares and encompasses around 325 buildings. Currently home to around 630 adults and 130 here.
- Sale of marijuana is illegal but has for many years been tolerated in the street called Pusher Street. Harder drugs, however, has not been tolerated.
- Wednesday night, a man was shot and killed by police after he shot and wounded two police officers and one other person in Christiania.
- Friday morning went residents into action and breaking hashish stalls in Pusher Street. So did the police in June, but the stalls were quickly rebuilt. (© NTB)