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Copenhagen, Sep 4 (AP) Copenhagen’s mayor on Monday urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city’s Christiania neighbourhood where a 30-year-old man was shot and killed and four others injured two weeks ago due to gang turf wars fighting over the marijuana trade in the area..
Copenhagen, Sep 4 (AP) Copenhagen’s mayor on Monday urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city’s Christiania neighbourhood where a 30-year-old man was shot and killed and four others injured two weeks ago due to gang turf wars fighting over the marijuana trade in the area.
The Aug. 26 killing was the latest in a bloody feud between rival gangs, the Hells Angels and the outlawed Loyal to Family. Both are trying to monopolise the sale of cannabis in Christiania.
On Friday, a 28-year-old man, affiliated with the Loyal To Family gang was arrested in relation to the shooting.
The sale of marijuana is illegal in Denmark.
“The spiral of violence at Christiania is deeply worrying,” Copenhagen Mayor Sophie Hæstorp Andersen said. She called on “the hundreds of thousands of visiting tourists and the many new foreign students who have just moved to Copenhagen to stay away and refrain from buying weed or other drugs at Pusher Street.” Christiania has become one of Copenhagen’s biggest tourist attractions and many of the visitors are foreigners.
“It may seem innocent to buy weed for a festive night out…
