Mjølnerparken: the Copenhagen ‘ghetto’ where the community are fighting back

Mjølnerparken: the Copenhagen ‘ghetto’ where the community are fighting back

For years now, the Mjølnerparken social housing estate in the Danish capital has been a building site – politically as well as literally. Construction hoardings, construction machinery and construction workers dominate the area around its apartment blocks in the city’s trendy Nørrebro district.  In 2018, then-prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen used it as the setting for the announcement of his ‘Ghetto Law’, which he said would crack down on so-…