In the wake of the shootings, the residents of Christiania have vowed to shut down Pusher Street, starting today.
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Residents in a semi-autonomous district of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, have destroyed market stalls where cannabis was sold, after a shooting incident there earlier this week.
Police have shut off the area to track the shooter, according to the report.
Christiania is a disused military compound housing 850 residents over a covering 34 hectare site.
Early Friday morning, Danish photographer Sarah Buthmann went to Christiania and captured the residents during their demolition works.
The 25-year-old was still armed when police confronted him in a residential area near Copenhagen Airport. “But we can not guarantee that they won’t pop up again, unfortunately”.
Christiania is known for its drugs trade, and for its rainbow-coloured hippie houses, with booths openly selling cannabis.
Copenhagen police director Thorkild Fogde told reporters: “This is not just about hash”.
One remains in critical condition after the attempt to arrest a known drug dealer.
Prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said the shooting of police officers was despicable and disgusting.
“The 25-year-old man. died overnight in Rigshospitalet [hospital] from his injuries”, the agency, which is investigating the incident because police used their guns during the arrest, said in a statement. The gunman also shot a bystander in the leg.
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In a statement, police said he “apparently” has sympathies for the Islamic State group and links to Millatu Ibrahim, a Salafist group that is outlawed in Germany, but “there is now no evidence that this has influenced the shooting incidents at Christiania”.
