• In 1971, a bunch of squatters took over a navy base in Copenhagen and referred to as their enclave “Christiania.”
• Their plan was to interrupt away from Denmark and its legal guidelines, to cease residing beneath a traditional property possession mannequin, and to legalize medication. 
• Lately, organized crime has taken over its drug commerce leading to escalating violence.

For greater than 50 years, Copenhagen has been residence to Europe’s largest hippie commune.

Freetown Christiania was fashioned in 1971 when about 150 squatters determined to leap a fence and take over a bit of leafy navy land that had been deserted within the Sixties. They fashioned a commune, made their very own legal guidelines, and legalized medication.

Within the many years since, numerous governments have threatened and tried to finish the commune, however Christiania remains to be going right this moment. Its members even fashioned a basis and acquired the land with a financial institution mortgage in 2011.

However over the previous couple of years, its semi-legal drug commerce on “Pusher Avenue” has been taken over by gangs and severe drug sellers leading to escalating violence. In Might, Copenhagen’s mayor supplied to step in and shut the drug marketplace for good.

This is how the commune has lasted so lengthy and among the challenges it is confronted.