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Ungdomshuset - demolition work has started

spud gun | 05.03.2007 12:39 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The new owners of Ungdomshuset, the Copenhagen 'Youth House', have started its demolition.

The demolition began on Monday morning (5 March) at 8 in the morning. Workmen wore masks and the company names on their vehicles were blacked out, apparently as a precaution against any reprisals.

Demolition
Demolition


just saw this - lots more info on today's developments at www.modkraft.dk, but its all in danish.

(from wombles.org.uk)

Ungdomshuset - demolition work has started

Update 5 March 2007, 12.20: The new owners of Ungdomshuset, the Copenhagen 'Youth House', have started its demolition.

The demolition began on Monday morning (5 March) at 8 in the morning. Workmen wore masks and the company names on their vehicles were blacked out, apparently as a precaution against any reprisals.

The demolitions follows three days of clashes between supporters of the Youth House project and riot police across Copenhagen.

The confronatations began after an anti-terror squad raided and evicted the Ungdomshuset building early in the morning of Thursday 1st March, which had been occupied since the 1980s. All 35 people inside the building at the time were arrested.

The local government sold the building to a far-right Christian group in 2000, which then obtained a court order to have the squatters evicted.

About 650 people have been arrested following three nights of clashes between protesters and police. Many of those arrested hve been remanded in jail for up to two weeks.

More information will be published as it comes in.

spud gun

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05.03.2007 15:57






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smash capitalism!

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Far Right ?

05.03.2007 13:12

"far-right Christian group"

That's a little unfair. They are nothing of the sort.

Bill

Those Fuckers

05.03.2007 20:59

Ok so they ripped it down. They prob think theyl shut us all up lby doing this. We need to respond to that.

ACTION NOW!

SOLIDARITY TO THE EVICTED!

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time to get a job.

07.03.2007 06:42

can someone please explain why should the squatters be allowed to stay? you can't be a squatter forever. it's time to get a job for these spoiled, lazy, danish socialist "artists". it seems like people are more upset that the place is being taken by a christian group then the fact that it's being taken from a group of artists... is there a way to justify the squatting? as far as i can tell, they've been trespassing for over 6 years, and i don't get why they should be allowed to stay.

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