A hippie area in main Copenhagen is resisting versus arranged wrongdoers– by taking apart the street they deal on.
For more than 50 years, the area of Christiania in the Danish capital has actually been a sanctuary for counter-culture, with a liberal mindset towards marijuana and their well-known drug market, Pusher Street.
But in the last few years, wrongdoers have actually taken control of the previously serene drug-friendly area, and organised criminal offense has actually surprised the neighborhood.
Yesterday, homeowners took matters into their own hands and started physically digging up pusher street stone by stone.
Pia Jagger informed BBC: ‘We’ ve been separating PusherStreet It’s shutting down today. So it’s a sort of a closing celebration.’
The street was previously a sanctuary for serene marijuana selling, regardless of the drug being unlawful in Denmark.
Years back, this altered when regional gangs took control of and attempted to monopolise the marketplace– leading to deadly stabbings and shootings and rocking the hippie area.
Mette Prag stated: ‘We’ re going to dig it up. We’re gon na alter all the facilities. Then we’re gon na begin developing other things.
‘For us hash is not the problem, it’ s the cash in it. But the ins 2015 with all the violence and all the combating, we can not have it in our society.
‘That’ s why now this chapter need to pertain to an end.’
Onlookers cheered as residents started getting rid of the cobblestones from the roadway, with Sofie Ostergaard stating she had actually prevented the location for 5 or 6 years.
She stated: ‘…I haven’ t been here that much since I have kids and I didn’t feel extremely safe. Today I brought all 3 of them, and they’re assisting.’
Kim Moeller, a teacher of criminology at Malmo University, informed the BBC: ‘If you have a conflict between groups in Copenhagen, they can most likely find each other in Pusher Street where they can shoot at each other.’
The commune stays home to 1,000 homeowners, consisting of 250 kids– and is among Denmark’s leading traveler locations.
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