Police say they have shot and critically wounded an armed Danish man following an earlier Copenhagen shootout that left two officers and a bystander wounded.
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One police officer was shot in the leg, while another one suffered a head wound, police confirmed on Twitter.
The 25-year-old gunman escaped after the attack but was arrested after a shoot-out with police.
One of the police officers is fighting for his life while the other two victims are in stable condition. Sale of hashish is illegal in Denmark.
Danish police said on Thursday that Hodzic had links to the radical Islamist group Millatu Ibrahim and that he sympathized with I.S., but that there was no evidence that extremism had inspired the shooting. Residents of Copenhagen’s semi-autonomous Christiania neighborhood are tearing down the.
Since Pusher Street was created in the late 1980s, police have raided the hashish sale dozens of time and have torn down stalls several times with little luck.
‘But we can not guarantee that they won’t pop up again, unfortunately’. There have been attempts in the past to close it down, most recently in 2004. However, not very long after, the market stalls and booths sprang up again.
But local authorities and residents have said the incident was not linked to terrorism. She added that she is not totally opposed to hashish, but she did not like what Pusher Street had become.
“I’m not saying hash should disappear completely from Christiania, but we needed a kiosk and what we had was a supermarket”.
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In a bid to deter violent criminals from coming to the neighbourhood, residents on Friday tore down the colourful open air stalls used by drug dealers and put up stickers urging the public to stop buying drugs in the area.
