Residents in Denmark’s famous hippie enclave of Christiania on Saturday joined police, the mayor of Copenhagen and the Danish justice minister to tear up cobblestones on the neighborhood’s Pusher Street to make way for a restoration project.
Long revered as a libertarian, hippie paradise, Christiania has been plagued with drug violence in recent years.
Known as Christianites, residents grew weary of the situation and took the drastic decision to close the street last August, after the enclave registered its fourth murder in three years.
