Danish clashes lead to 400 arrests
Updated on 07 October 2007
Danish police have made more than 400 arrests following clashes in Copenhagen as demonstrators attempted to occupy a building.
Around 3,000 demonstrators tried to climb over police vehicles to reach the building. Police responded with tear-gas and then moved in for the arrests.
A police spokesman said: "We have never arrested so many people in a single incident before."
The rioters were part of a group evicted from a youth centre six months ago.
The conflict over the youth centre has been simmering since 2000, when the local government sold the building to a religious group.
Left-wing activists had used it as a base since 1982 but were evicted in March, which led to violent street clashes and hundreds of arrests.
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