On Friday morning, some of Christiania’s 1,000 inhabitants were pictured on Denmark’s TV 2 station using saws, cordless drills and crowbars to dismantle drug stalls on “Pusher Street”, where the trade is concentrated.
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During Wednesday’s shoot-out in Christiania, a self-governing commune in the capital with a long history of openly trading drugs, another police officer and a civilian were shot in the leg.
“If they start building up the booths again tonight, then well, we’re here tonight as well”. Residents of Copenhagen’s semi-autonomous Christiania neighborhood are tearing down the. Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen tweeted “Great Christiania”. “As for now we have no concrete plans as to what will happen with Pusher Street”.
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.
Police tracked him down several hours later 5 kilometers (3 miles) to the south in Kastrup near the airport and shot him early Thursday. He was taken to Copenhagen’s university hospital, where he died from his wounds early Friday, his defense lawyer Jacob Kiil said.
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”. “There are so many smokers in Denmark, and it can not be fair that only 600 residents of Christiania should deal with all the trouble of supplying the entire country”, said one of them, Tanja Fox.
The firefight erupted as officers carried out “routine work” in the area, according to a police statement.
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One remains in critical condition after the attempt to arrest a known drug dealer.
