Siege of Freetown Christiania

As of July 18, 2007, Christiana was under siege by the centrist right-wing Danish government.

It has been like this since 2004, though Danish police made inroads to distribute the hash market throughout Copenhagen since they ignored the heroin problem in 1979 and busted hash dealers instead.

50 Christianites were arrested and labeled trouble-makers in May 2007, in the wake of demolition of the abandoned Cigarkassen building.

The Christianite collective feared the government would raze all buildings and replace it with gentrified private housing (condominiums).

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For more information since 2007, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania