2024-01-23 18:32:41
The Danish government wants to finally stop the drug trade in Copenhagen’s hippie community Christiania. “Pusher Street”, notorious for cannabis trafficking and gang crime, will be closed this year, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard announced on Tuesday on TV2 Kosmopol.
At the end of August, the residents of Christiania themselves asked for help from the authorities in the fight once morest drug trafficking. A few days earlier, a 30-year-old with connections to organized crime was shot in Christiania. It was the fourth fatal shooting within the drug scene around “Pusher Street” since 2020.
Justice Minister Hummelgaard said an action plan was drawn up together with the residents of Christiania. It will be implemented “in the next six months”. The consumption and sale of so-called soft drugs are officially banned in the autonomous community, but have so far been tolerated – but criminal gangs are now competing for the drug business, and this is increasingly causing problems.
A group of hippies founded the “Freistadt Christiania” in a former barracks in 1971. Around 900 people live in the state-tolerated autonomous community and its own laws and rules apply. About half a million tourists visit Christiania every year.
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