Freetown Christiania
Self-governing squatter commune since the seventies, with a former Pusher Street now being reclaimed from gang violence.
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This guide to Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen opens in 1971, when a journalist named Jacob Ludvigsen climbed onto abandoned military barracks and declared them a free town, with squatters raising a flag, banning cars and governing themselves by consensus. It follows the decades in which the commune's Pusher Street market, quietly tolerated by authorities, turned violent, with a police officer shot in 2016 and gunmen opening fire in daylight years later. Best heard walking from the entrance down toward Pusher Street itself.
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