This all started because they shut down the marijuana-market in Christiania. They shut it down due to gang-violence, which is only present due to the police raiding the place in the 00’s, arresting all the locals and then expecting the issue to go away. To nobody’s surprise organised crime, which had supplied marijuana to the market, now moved in and manned the stalls as well.
This wasn’t too bad, but tensions have steadily grown, though the area was never particularly violent. Maybe the constant police raids didn’t help, who can tell?
They tried shutting down the market several times, both with and without the help of the citizens of Christiania, but it never really amounted to anything. To nobody’s surprise, whenever they shut down the area, you’d see a drastic increase in gang violence across Copenhagen, as they would now have to fight for territory. The danish police likes to claim that they are the ones who have ended these gang wars, but time and again it has been the gangs themselves that ended these wars by way of internal dialogue, usually after a particularly violent episode.
This dialogue has been facilitated by the knowledge that the market in Christiania would re-open, but this no longer seems to be the case.
So now we have escalating tensions between gangs in Copenhagen and the police aren’t really doing anything, nor are they capable of doing anything, because they can’t just rest on their laurels and let the gangs figure it out on their own, since the go-to solution has been removed. The police is used to doing some token action and then claiming responsibility for solving issues, which means it is expected they solve this, but they can’t, because they don’t actually understand why these things flare up or stop.
I fucking hate the cops, stupid corrupt motherfuckers
the crazy part to me is the focus on prohibiting weed, when there are like grenades and RPGs being used.
I don’t see how the explosives and rockets doesn’t trigger some wrath-of-god level investigation that goes all the way back to the manufacturer, unless it’s like 2 steps until some NATO/Gladio/CIA asset printing up end user certificates on government stationary or some other embarrassing own goal.
Grenades and RPGs are very much not the norm I need to say. Those situations were extreme outliers. Normally they just shoot or stab each other. It is weird to see more people having grenades tho.
The national guard has lost 100’s of rifles and that just what they’re willing to admit to.
Investigation would also require police actually do their jobs and, considering the fact they once presented a basic raid on the market as the culmination of 4 years’ work, they’re not very good at that.
Or some crazy nazis want to let the situation deteriorate so badly that they have an excuse to enact even more insane policies……fuck Europe