For around 25 years young autonomous people had a house in Copenhagen where they met and engaged in different cultural activities. The house was owned by the municipality until they sold it in 2000. The new owners turned out to be a christian community who wanted to change the house in to a church. But the users of the house refused to leave it. First of March 2007 the police moved in and started clearing the house. The reaction from the frustrated activists was violent and riots spread out through the area. Blockades were made in the streets, cars were burned and when the police moved in they were met with paving stones and molotov-cocktails. Several hundred were arrested. The youth house was armed with paving stones and bottles to defend it against the police. They were never used, since the police entered the building early in the morning from a helicopter in the air. Copenhagen March 2007
A demonstration supporting the closed Kopi-house in Hamburg. A place quiet similar to the youth house in Copenhagen.
One week after the police moved in and cleared the house, it was leveled with the ground. The former inhabitants were burdened with grief.
The youth house movement lost a lot of sympathy from the local community when activists wrecked stores and cars
24 hours after the clearing of the youth house more than 200 activists were arrested
Different people with various motives joined the demonstrations. Some of them were there for the thrill of the fight and others were allegedly right wing extremists trying to make the left winged look bad by participating in the riots.
Everything portable was used to blockade the streets and the activists worked purposively in their aim to keep the forces of law and order away.
The police sometimes succeeded in surrounding a group of people but this young man did not give up without resistance.
The police attacked with armed cars and they were met with anger and stones
The streets were burning all night.
The empty ground where the house used to be was named 'Ground 69'.