GREAT PHOTOJOURNALISM

Great Photojournalism

Jacob Ehrbahn

69-Chapter 1, Dec. 2006.

"Youth Riot in Copenhagen"

Jagtvej 69 is the address of the youth house

The Roof of the youth house

In Denmark, it is illegal to demonstrate while wearing a mask. The protesters defied this from the very start of the demonstration.

In Denmark, it is illegal to demonstrate while wearing a mask. The protesters defied this from the very start of the demonstration.

Protestors attack the police with cobblestones, bottles, paint bombs and homemade stun grenades.

Police seek cover behind armoured vehicles.

Protestors attack the police with cobblestones, bottles, paint bombs and homemade stun grenades.

Protestors attack the police with cobblestones, bottles, paint bombs and homemade stun grenades.

Protestors attack the police with cobblestones, bottles, paint bombs and homemade stun grenades.

protesters getting ready for riot.

Police surround a group of protestors and force them to sit on the ground. After they are arrested, the protestors are quickly driven away.

Police barricades

Protestors smash shop windows.

Undercover officers arrest a protestor.

With iron pipes and buckets full of stones and glass bottles, protestors prepare for a new attack wave against the police.

A barricade of bicycles built in front of the youth house, to prevent the police from storming the compound.

Protestors built fiery barricades on several city streets to keep police at bay.