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Christiania’s fate might end up in the courts
By Luna Finnsson
Jul 5, 2008
Culture, Music and the Arts, Denmark, Lifestyle, MBL

a Christiania protest marchLong running efforts to formalise the status
of Copenhagen’s most famous suburb seem to have reached a deadlock. The
hippie enclave that has squatted on a former army base near the city
centre for four decades initially agreed to proposals from city
administrators but with too many conditions attached.

Carsten Jarlov, representing the Palaces and Properties Agency, says his
party has lost patience, pointing out that the state had already spent
‘20,000 hours and around 20 million kroner’ on resolving the matter.

‘I don’t see the point in meeting again,’ he told public broadcaster DR.
‘Now the courts will have to decide the fate of Christiania.’

Residents of this ad hoc suburb that has no proper utilities such as
paved roads, and gets away with loose law enforcement on issues such as
drug use, are hoping they will be protected by rulings passed in 1978
and 1989 that allow them final say over the colony’s fate.

More than 700 lawsuits have been filed by residents against the
government eager to protect their ‘colony’ and avoid rent -- which few
have paid in any significant amount. The issue of 150 additional houses
built in the colony and who gets to administer a waiting list for such
housing, as well a demand for a 10 million kroner fund to subsidise
introduced rents, are all conditions over which negotiations have broken
down.

The leading party in the government, the Liberals, want no further time
wasted talking to the residents, while the Conservatives prefer to keep
the door open.

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Dan Clore

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Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"