Police Raid and Defense in Christiana
Copenhagen, Dec 17- Flaming barricades were erected and rocks and molotov cocktails thrown to preventing riot police from advancing into the autonomous Christiana neighborhood in Copenhagen on Monday night.
After a long day of demonstrations against the Canadian Tar Sands and capitalism as the cause of climate change, an evening party was held in Christiana, which has been a squatted and autonomous neighborhood in Copenhagen for about forty years. Riot police cut off all exits to the neighborhood, deployed tear gas, and made about 200 arrests once inside. The arrests bring the total number related to the week’s protests to about 1,500.
source: http://denverabc.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/copenhagen-police-raid-autonomous-neighborhood/
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