by karsten on Thursday, March 06, 2008 @ 00:12:34 CET(31 reads until May 1, 2008)

Fundamental case about three Christianians decided. Christianians can be put on the street.
SES gets permission to throw people out of the free city, if they have moved in after 2006.
After the decision by the High Court the fifth of march 2008 SES (Slots and Ejendomsstyrelsen) can well put three Christianians out of their houses, because the houses stand for demolition according to the plans of SES. The administration wants to put the three out, because they have moved in on Christiania, after the State gave notice about the framework agreement replaced with the Christiania law in 2006 in the free city . In this process all the residents got registered to their homes with house-numbers.
Because these residents aren't registered on the official resident lists, as well as the fact that their homes stand for demolition according to the plan by SES; SES could make these individuals homeless at will.

Bailiff's court gave Christianians support in the first round where the decision was was not have a decision before the major Christiania case has been through the High Court (Østre Landsret). The Bailiff's court sentence gave the Christianians right to continue to live in their houses, until now where the High Court overruled this decision.
Christiania has maintained that the three are the rightful residents, because all Christianias' guidelines were followed, when they received their houses. Christianias lawyer Knud Foldschalk was surprised about the sentence as he explained on the urgent called common meeting. He recommended to try this case at the Supreme Court (Højsteret) .
Still the decision of the High Court (Østre Landsret) gives SES the legal support that these three Christianians can be put on the street before the great case next autumn between the State and Christiania. This kind of action would most certainly be a hard provocation to negotiations that are held to find a reasonable solution for the future plans for Christiania These negotiations could avoid the great case that is to come by fall this year and where it is to be proved that Christiania as it is has the maintenance right for the area. Thousands of pages of official documents have been dug out of archives to make the proof that Christiania has a legal base for existence after being accepted since the creation in September 1971.
Christiania does not think that the three can be moved out, because they have been standing on the Christiania internal and completely valid list for the distribution of homes.
The manager of SES Carsten Jarlov is satisfied with the decision explaining to the press that the Hight Court has today ensured that we can still enforce the Christiania-law and the law's central principle about that if you want to live in Christiania you need a permission from SES.
SES now expects that the parts concerned in this case move out of the homes when requested. As he mentions that SES of course will follow up on this and has with the Hight Court's ruling got the basis to be able to do it.
A time of challenge is awaiting the Christianians to keep the liberty in Christiania in the future .


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