COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Danish government on Friday won a legal battle against a freewheeling neighborhood that has remained largely self-governing since its creation by hippie squatters four decades ago.
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision from 2009 saying the roughly 900 residents of Christiania have no irrevocable right to use the former naval base as their home.
The decision ends a six-year legal standoff and means the government can go ahead with plans to "normalize" the neighborhood and tear down scores of ramshackle homes built at the site without permits.
Residents say they will resist any attempts to evict them from the neighborhood, which has …
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