Posted on 03/03/2007 2:46:11 PM PST by TFFKAMM
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Police searched homes in the Danish capital on Saturday for activists involved in street clashes that began when police evicted squatters from an abandoned building that has served as a center for anarchists, leftists and punk rockers.
Two nights of violence between police and youths protesting the eviction have turned parts of the Danish capital into a battlefield strewn with burning cars and shattered glass.
Two new demonstrations started Saturday afternoon, with hundreds of people marching peacefully toward Copenhagen's main square, Danish media reported.
As the smoke and tear gas cleared Saturday morning, police said 188 people were arrested overnight, bringing the total number of arrests to about 400 since the riots started on Thursday.
"In the last 10 years we haven't had riots like we've seen in the past two days," police spokesman Flemming Steen Munch said. He said police performed house searches early Saturday in "many places" in Copenhagen to track down activists, but declined to give details.
Vandals covered Copenhagen's famed Little Mermaid statue with pink paint. It was not clear whether the riots were linked with the defacement of the statue, which in the past has been beheaded and doused in paint and been blown off her perch by vandals who used explosives.
Police said foreign activists from Sweden, Norway and Germany joined hundreds of Danish youth, hurling cobblestones at riot police and setting cars on fire. In a sign the Danish youth expected foreign help, the Web page of "Ungdomshuset," or the youth house, posted a warning in English that Danish police had increased border controls.
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Ahh. The socialist paradise.
Entitlements breed contempt.
A friend of mine in Denmark told me about this some time ago. The "squatters" are a bunch of communist-anarchist types who battle the cops regularly. Strangely, the MSM has yet to mention the commie angle, preferring to refer to the rioters as "youths".
Europe is a fine example for America to follow -- NOT!
When I was in Copenhagen last December, I was told vandals ripped her right arm off. Vandals are always trashing that monument to Hans Christian Andersen.
It doesn't take much to start a riot in Europe.
What is bloody Dick Gephardt doing in Copenhagen?
(1st pic at the top).
This is a problem that is easily solved. Just throw them in a cell with an equal number of muzzies and give them all provisions that ony half of them can survive on. Its 'Win-Win' I tell ya.
Can you elaborate on your tag line?
"Ma'am, I need to clear out your giggling stoners and your drum-circle hippies right now, or soon they're going to attract something much worse."
The term "youths" is reserved for little Commie punks and Muslim thugs.
It's in the MSM stylebook. Everybody knows that...
LOL! You got that right!
Well that's what they get for tolerating scum...
In another age, these cretins would be grist for the Nazi machine.
And they would love it. Any cause will suit them, as long as they can raise their fists agaist... what? Name it.
Senseless violence. People who would do such a thing are no less than nihilists and deserve no mercy whatsoever.
Throw them in a dungeon...and let them starve.
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