The Ministry of Defence demands that building maintenance be accelerated. The Christiania community has already established a technical administration to step up technical maintenance. The building office dispenses advice and carries out a series of major maintenance tasks. The over 100-year old water system is repaired by SPAR2, the local water savings group, which leads to drastic reductions in water consumption and price.

Christiania publishes its Green Plan as a visionary alternative to the local plan. The Freetown's plan shows a green city in close interaction with Nature: recycling water, composting kitchen refuse, renewable energy, houseboats in the moat and youth accommodation made of turf and soil.

In 1992, the rent increases, but the Copenhagen Council refuses to pay the full housing benefit for social clients. The authorities fear that they will be giving "occupational support" to the many new businesses in the Freetown. After long negotiations - taking their point of departure in the Christiania budget, which documents our financing of "public" institutions, and an agreement to install consumption meters in the businesses - the Council accepts the rent.

The cultural life still blooms with Russian rock in Operaen (the Opera), techno in the youth club, theatre war in Rockmaskinen (the Rockmachine), and cabaret and theatre in Bøssehuset (the Gay House). Thousands visit the concerts of Strictly Underground in Den Grå Hal (the Grey Hall), and a football tournament is held on Fredens Eng (the Meadow of Peace). Curious tourists from all over the world study Christiania bikes or explore the ramparts.

Without the fence, Christiania's Girl Guard marches as "Conservative Women for the Union", hoping to scare the voters into voting No. They succeed - at least the first time around....

Occupied by the police
In September 1992, The Copenhagen Police starts a campaign to clear Christiania of hash. The special Christiania patrol consists of 70 police officers who keep the area under surveillance around the clock in an 18 month long, violent campaign. The hash dealing is not noticeably reduced, but the police create dangerous situations several times using cudgels and tear gas, and inciting trouble in Prinsessegade.

In particular, the persistence of the civilian officers cause many innocent people, school children and random, unsuspecting tourists to be bodily searched. Even the local vicar is subjected to search several times. As a consequence, Christiania, in the spring of 1993, puts everything on the line in a week of action, "Week 12 against Violence." Entertainment, street theatre, small groups in navy overalls with a badge on the back saying IDIOTI (idiotic) instead of POLITI (police), video documentation, a legal group and cooperation with lawyers and Amnesty International, all go into the effort of stopping the police violence.

During the whole of 1993, a widespread dialogue takes place among the Christianites, the people of Christianshavn, lawyers, Amnesty International, the parliamentary Justice Commission, the media, the management group, even the police management; but the Christiania patrol keeps its iron grip on Christiania.

At the same time, the Public Record Office discovers the need to register the history of Christiania, and asks for historical material for a special Christiania file.

The building office carries out an extensive building registration. The Antropopip Society stages "Animals wearing clothes" in Den Grå Hal. The Christiania action theatre gets support from Christiania and the European Union for further, nationwide resistance to the Union. The Free Hash movement celebrates May 1. with a great Smoke-In in one of Copenhagen's parks. Loppen (the Flea) celebrates it 20-year anniversary as the centre of a living renewal of the music scene.

The annual negotiations with the Ministry of Defence are concluded with an agreement about a municipal contribution matching the property tax. The Freetown becomes an object of study for the Research Institute of the Counties and Municipalities. The researchers conclude the authorities can learn a lesson from Christiania, and the experience gained may be used worldwide. At the end of the year, one and a half years of police action culminates in a raid and violent arrests at the otherwise idyllic Christmas market. After a crisis meeting between the inhabitants of the Freetown and the Minister of Justice, Erling Olsen, Christmas peace is secured with the abolition of the Christiania patrol.

At a meeting in the spring of 1994 with the Ministers of Defense and Justice, the tone is hostile, and Christiania is threatened with closure, if the hash market is not dealt with. Christiania regrets that Parliament does not have a grip on the Danish narcotics policy.