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In a bid to reclaim the street from drug dealers, this Saturday they began physically digging it up, armed with spades and crowbars.

"To safeguard that Christiania will continue to be a vibrant, colourful, creative part of Denmark, it needs to be a place without organised criminal gangs."

Ordinarily this T-shaped strip is the epicentre of Denmark's cannabis trade, where so-called pushers hawk weed from behind makeshift stacks of beer crates and plywood market stalls, labelled with names like Green Rocket and Blue Dream.

Found within a kilometre of the Danish parliament, Freetown Christiania was established in 1971 when a bunch of anarchists and hippies squatted inside a vacant military base.

Today 1,000 residents, including 250 children, live in the graffiti-covered barracks and wooden cottages along Copenhagen's historic ramparts.

In an extraordinary shift, they collaborated for several months with Copenhagen's Lord Mayor Sophie Haestorp Andersen, Justice Minister Hummelgaard and police over a new plan.

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